The retail giant's "Walmart Express" experiment lasted only three years before the company admitted defeat and refocused on supercenters. The closures...
Created in response to the September 11 attacks, it became the third-largest Cabinet department by combining 22 different federal agencies. The massiv...
The probe came within 50,600 miles of the planet's cloud tops, discovering 10 new moons and a bizarre magnetic field tilted 60 degrees from its axis....
The dystopian "1984" ad, which only aired once during the Super Bowl, depicted a woman throwing a hammer at Big Brother and cost $900,000 to produce....
Yokoi had been living in a cave for 28 years, surviving on frogs, rats, and mangoes. When found by local hunters, his first words were reportedly an a...
The Goldsboro incident involved two 3-4 megaton bombs, one of which went through all but one of its arming sequences. A single low-voltage switch prev...
FDR secretly flew to the Casablanca Conference during World War II aboard a Boeing 314 Clipper flying boat. The trip was so unprecedented that even El...
After three years of secret testing, Krueger's Finest Beer and Krueger's Cream Ale hit shelves in flat-top steel cans. The brewery was so nervous abou...
The Iowa candy maker invented the chocolate-covered ice cream treat after watching a boy in his shop struggle to choose between a chocolate bar and ic...
The British Army officer's handbook became one of the best-selling books of the 20th century. He based it on his military scouting experiences and nev...
Before this invention, early typewriters either used sheets of carbon paper placed between pages or had characters that struck directly onto carbon-co...
A carpenter found shiny flakes in a water channel while building a sawmill, accidentally triggering one of the largest migrations in American history....