Human Interest

Art theft is the third-largest source of criminal revenues worldwide.

In 2018, BBC crews filming emperor penguins decided to break their 'no interference' rule and save the trapped animals from freezing with their young.

Explore a database of more than 220,000 shipwrecks, the largest compilation to date.

Explore a photo gallery of underwater shipwrecks taken by Tobias Friedrich, a German scuba diver specializing in underwater photography.

At the Brandenburg Gate in 1987, President Ronald Reagan famously challenged Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall," casting the Berlin Wall as a symbol of the Communist era and Germany's Cold War division.

Explore how the most commonly used words in the English language have changed from the 1950s to 2023.

In the early 20th century, 'baby cages' were popular among parents who believed that putting their children in the cold would build their immunity to minor illnesses.

While planning a vacation, it can be advantageous to avoid the peak tourism season at your destination.

In 1969, a group of reporters wrote an intentionally bad and salacious novel under a pen name to prove that sex sells more than quality. It sold 20,000 copies within a few months and spent 13 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller list.

In 1842, a "mermaid" from Fiji was put on display at a museum, drawing large crowds and fooling many. It was later discovered that the creature was created by sewing the upper body of a monkey to the lower body of a fish.

Japanese photographer Masahisa Fukase took pictures of his wife Yoko leaving for work every morning from his fourth-floor window in a series called From Window. Not long after, Yoko filed for divorce.

Watch a breakdown of the canine family tree that explains how foxes and wolves are related to our beloved household pets, like poodles and dachshunds

Find new favorite novelists with this literature map.

Remove the tyranny of choice and quickly generate a movie suggestion with this site.

Type the name of an artist you like and find your new favorite band with this music map of taste.

Watch Maradona's controversial 'Hand of God' goal against England.

Watch ESPN's compilation of iconic moments in sports from 2000 to 2009 in their 'Images of the Decade' special.

Researches have found that various monkeys have pet-like relationships with other species.

You may be better at spotting a lie when listening to a speaker's voice inflections rather than watching for facial and body cues.

Relax to a livestream of brown bears chilling in Katmai National Park.

Give your memories a place to live and explore the personal stories left by strangers, tied to specific locations, in this interactive map of the world.

Make a popular no-churn watermelon ice cream, using just watermelon and milk.

See a collection of mind-bending architecture around the world, including a teapot gas station, a duck home, and a picnic basket building.

See nine celebrities who adopted animals they met on set.

Explore (and debunk) the world's most contagious misconceptions—from the 5-second rule to sugar rushes—on this interactive site. Click on each misconception for further evidence.

Test your historical knowledge with this daily game that shows you 10 historical artifacts and asks you to guess their time period and place of origin.

Play "I Spy" using nearly 40,000 Wikipedia objects.

Photographer Mathieu Stern found a little girl's 120-year-old time capsule containing two glass plate negatives in his family home, and developed the photos, unveiling images of the child's pets.

Peek into the love lives of thousands of strangers whom Stanford University researchers have been tracking since 2017 on this interactive page.

The giant African harvester ant is rising in popularity as a pet and fueling illegal global trade, with creatures sometimes costing as much as $220.

The first proposed experiment in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) began with the mathematician and astronomer Carl Friedrich Gauss, who is credited with the idea of drawing a right triangle and three squares on Earth's surface to signal to aliens using the language of mathematics.

Humans tend to imagine aliens as humanlike, but that could be unlikely given that different environments, nutrients, and resources shape how creatures form and evolve.

In 1962, President John F. Kennedy set forth an argument for the effort to land humans on the moon’s surface, casting the Apollo mission in terms of historic human ambitions.

Author David Foster Wallace's 'This Is Water' commencement speech at Kenyon College in 2005 provides guidance for adulthood.

After NASA's Voyager 1 captured Earth as a single pixel as it left the solar system in 1990, astronomer Carl Sagan used the image to reflect on humanity's fragility and the responsibility to protect 'the only world we've ever known.'

Planarian flatworms are small, aquatic worms with exceptional regenerative capabilities. When cut, the worms can regenerate multiple bodies in a matter of weeks.

The tragic Pulitzer Prize-winning image 'The Vulture and the Little Girl' (1993) generated controversy, raised concerns about ethics in photography, and eventually led to the photographer's death.

See 33 images that became central to huge scandals, including a young Charles and Camilla, Michael Jackson's baby on a hotel balcony, and Hugh Grant's mugshot.

In 1939, baseball star Lou Gehrig delivered his inspirational 'Luckiest Man' speech after retiring due to the health condition that now bears his name.

SpongeBob exemplifies Aristotle's philosophy for living well because he understands that happiness doesn't come from external factors like money, recognition, or power.

Clever Hans was a 1900s horse that was believed to be able to solve math equations, tell time, and read and comprehend German, until a psychology student discovered how he got his answers.

A 2019 Facebook event called on attendees to "Storm Area 51, They Can't Stop All of Us," resulting in countless memes, the creation of a music festival, and eventually the arrests of those who did try to approach the area.

Art theft is the third-largest source of criminal revenues worldwide, thanks in part to the subjective nature of valuing a work of art.

This site reaches millions of visitors who are tired of AI chatbots and seeking human connection. Pretend to be an AI chatbot and ask questions, provide answers, and draw for people in real time.

In 2009, the nation was gripped by the story of a missing young boy who was believed to be floating over Colorado in a homemade balloon, until it was revealed that he was at home the whole time.

The identity of the Tank Man in the iconic photo from the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests remains unknown and was possibly killed.