Joseph Stalin wanted John Wayne gone so badly he sent two men to pose as FBI agents to take him down.

Despite being fake, the Scopes Trial ultimately got evolution to be taught in schools.

Though rare, foreign accent syndrome can cause individuals to speak their native dialect one morning and one from across the globe the next day.

While most ancient rights of honor suicides were performed by women, Jauhar was performed exclusively by women.

Southern doctors used pseudo-science to explain why slaves tried to escape while ignoring the fact that maybe they just didn't like being slaves.

Mutsuhiro Watanabe was so deranged as a prison guard that General Douglas MacArthur named him as one of the most wanted war criminals in Japan.

Albert Pike's Masonic writings were taken out of context by an anti-Freemason author who made him out to be an occultist who regularly practiced summoning the devil.

The Confederates were sure former slave-turned-Union spy Mary Bowser wouldn't be able to read the sensitive documents they left out around her — they were wrong.

From half-naked banquets to thwarting plots against the throne, Catherine and her "Flying Squadron" knew how to use sex appeal in their favor.

Buried behind L.A.'s skyscrapers lies Murphy Ranch, a graffiti-laden trail, and compound that was once a haven for Nazis.

Sophie Scholl, Hans Scholl, and the White Rose movement stood up to the evils of the Nazis. Though they died for their beliefs, their message lived on.