History Thomas Edison Tested Job Applicants on General Knowledge. His Own Son, an MIT Student, Failed October 14, 2026

History A Railroad Staged a Fatal Train Crash in 1896. It Fired the Organizer That Evening and Rehired Him the Next Day October 13, 2026

Technology NASA Engineers Bypassed Voyager 1’s Failed Memory Chip by Moving Its Code. They Waited Almost Two Days to Hear Back October 12, 2026

Technology Mike Muuss Wrote Ping to Find a Network Fault, but a Colleague Fixed It Before His First Test October 12, 2026

History Henry Cogswell Gave Cities Drinking Fountains to Encourage People to Drink Water Instead of Alcohol. Some Had Statues of Him That People Tore Down October 11, 2026

Sports Former Patriots Player Rich Ohrnberger Said He Deliberately Rear-Ended a Van So He Would Have an Excuse for Being Late to a Team Meeting October 11, 2026

Sports A Storm Delayed Oklahoma State and Tulsa’s 2011 Football Game Until 12:16 a.m. They Played Until 3:35 a.m. October 11, 2026

Animals The British Museum Glued a Snail to a Card, Thinking It Was Dead. Nearly Four Years Later, It Emerged From Its Shell October 11, 2026

History James Reavis Used Forged Spanish Records to Claim Millions of Acres. Arizona Landowners Paid Him for Their Own Property October 11, 2026

Animals Pilots in Crane Costumes Led Young Whooping Cranes From Wisconsin to Florida. The Birds Flew Back Without Them October 11, 2026

Travel & Places Kansas's Highest Point Is a Ranch Pasture Where Visitors Sign a Summit Guestbook October 11, 2026

People & Society Publisher Stanley Unwin Paid His Ten-Year-Old Son a Shilling to Review The Hobbit. The Boy's Verdict Helped Get It Published October 11, 2026

History Two Tea Ships Raced From China to London for 99 Days, Finished Minutes Apart, and Shared the First-Arrival Prize October 10, 2026

History The First British Moby-Dick Left Out Ishmael's Survival, So Reviewers Thought Its Narrator Had Drowned September 17, 2026

Technology Scientists Encoded Malware in DNA to Hack a Computer September 17, 2026

People & Society British Villages Bought Phone Boxes for £1 and Turned Them Into Libraries September 17, 2026

History High Winds Threatened to Topple a Manhattan Skyscraper, So Crews Secretly Made Emergency Repairs at Night September 13, 2026

Animals Some Falcons Store Live Birds in Rock Crevices for Later Meals September 10, 2026

Technology Edison's First Mass-Marketed Invention Was an Electric Pen That Punched Paper September 10, 2026

History In 2004, a Magazine Mailed 40,000 Subscribers a Satellite Photo of Their Own House September 10, 2026

History A 96-Pound Machinist Fixed a Runaway Airship With a Pocketknife While Dangling Over Boston September 10, 2026

Animals Scientists Took Away Pigeons' Liver Immune Cells and Their Inner Compass Failed on Cloudy Days September 5, 2026

Science & Nature Brazil's Worst Radiation Accident Began With Scrap Dealers Passing Around Glowing Blue Powder September 4, 2026

Travel & Places A Nebraska Man Built a Stonehenge Memorial From Junked Cars September 3, 2026

Science & Nature The Oregon Farmer Who Spent 90 Days Dragging the Willamette Meteorite Toward His Own Land September 2, 2026

Food & Drink Most Supermarket Apples Come From Grafted Tree Copies Instead of Seeds August 30, 2026

History A Driverless Volvo Hit a Docked Swedish Submarine in 1961 August 29, 2026

Health & Body Doctors Once Tilted Patients to Move an Oil Dye Through Their Spines August 29, 2026

People & Society The Man Who Flew Over Los Angeles in a Lawn Chair and Landed in Power Lines August 26, 2026

Animals The Monkeys at Bali's Uluwatu Temple Steal Phones and Trade Them Back for Food August 25, 2026

History A 1600 Year Old Mummy Had Homer's Iliad Wrapped on Its Abdomen August 24, 2026

Technology The 1899 “Horsey Horseless” Car Was Designed With a Fake Horse Head to Calm Real Horses August 24, 2026

History A Washington Post Office Once Used a Hollow Cedar Stump as Its Main Room August 22, 2026

Food & Drink A 4,000-Year-Old Hymn Was Also a Beer Recipe August 21, 2026

History Singapore Made Long-Haired Men Wait Last at Government Offices August 20, 2026

History Nero Quit an Olympic Chariot Race and Was Crowned the Winner Anyway August 20, 2026

History Museum Visitors Could Smell a 3500 Year Old Mummy Balm August 18, 2026

Animals The Fire Ant Colony That Grew an Arm and Escaped Its Tank August 17, 2026

Arts & Entertainment The Board Game That Makes Italian Troops Stop for Pasta Water August 14, 2026

Science & Nature The Battery That Was Supposed to Last Three or Four Years Has Been Ringing Since 1840 August 13, 2026

History The Enslaved Pilot Who Stole a Confederate Ship and Sailed His Family to Freedom August 12, 2026

Food & Drink The Army Asked Soldiers About a Food That Did Not Exist August 11, 2026

History Ben Franklin Left Two Cities a Gift They Had to Wait 200 Years to Spend August 10, 2026

History The Post Office Sent a Live Cat Through New York's Pneumatic Mail Tubes August 9, 2026

People & Society The Actor Who Memorized All of Paradise Lost on an Exercise Bike August 8, 2026

History The Bomber That Rushed Apollo 11 to New Zealand's Evening News August 6, 2026

Technology The TV Remote That Let Viewers Shoot Commercials August 4, 2026

Sports The Buccaneers Jet Trip That Sent Bo Jackson to Baseball and the Raiders August 2, 2026

History The Man Who Lived Inside Napoleon's Elephant August 1, 2026