There are better ways to create a financial safety net than going over Niagara Falls in a barrel… probably.

How Johnny Carson and *fake news* caused a toilet paper shortage in 1973.

Both Abraham Lincoln, president of the Union, and Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, were born in Kentucky. The state’s economy and access to everything outside of Kentucky relied on both the Ohio River, which flowed through the Union, and the Mississippi River, which went through the Confederacy. Kentucky’s entire livelihood depended on a United States. And for a time, there was the Union, the Confederacy and Kentucky – sitting on a fence, a classic middle child.

Long before the LGBT community was able to have national block parties in their honor, a few brave citizens started a movement that would eventually become Pride Month.

The author of Peter Pan has managed to hold onto a copyright license far longer than is ever typically granted. All of the proceeds benefit a children’s hospital. But were his motivations for this a sign of some deeper issue?

Gin and tonic isn’t just the #SWF summer drink of choice. It’s a drink with a storied — and controversial — past. It’s a drink that once made Winston Churchill (no newbie to the drinking game) claim, “The gin and tonic has saved more Englishmen’s lives, and minds, than all the doctors in the Empire.”

Ah, Empire. Gather round, children, pour yourselves a drink, and I’ll tell you about a time when empire was more than just a must-watch TV drama on FOX.

John Roosevelt was only five when his father contracted polio in 1921. The disease robbed the future president of the use of his legs and left him mostly wheelchair-bound.

And John, the youngest child, was not having it.

As the Scottish poet Robert Burns put it, Scottish parliament was “bought and sold for English gold.” But the reason Scotland was broke … that’s a story you’d never guess.

Women stepped up to fill construction roles during World War II and built the Waterloo Bridge. So why have they been left out of the story?

Imagine a world where everyone who needs to move house, does so all on the same day. Imagine it. IMAGINE IT.

There was one small wrinkle in William Byers’ plan to launch the Rocky Mountain News as Denver’s first newspaper. Another dreamer, Jack Merrick, was planning to launch The Cherry Creek Pioneer as Denver’s first newspaper.

THE BUSES ARE ROLLING, BYER! THE BUSES ARE ROLLING.

Longfellow arrived in Cambridge, Mass., in 1836, renting a room from a woman named Elizabeth Craigie. For a poet who loved nature, what better setting for writing than the manicured green lawns and gardens of Craigie House?

Longfellow agreed… at first.