Social Sciences
Venice started charging tourists just to walk through its streets
Sep 23, 2026
Society
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Social Sciences
Disneyland's opening day was a sweltering disaster, with soft asphalt and forged tickets
Sep 12, 2026
Social Sciences
Newspaper readers raised funds to complete the Statue of Liberty's pedestal
Sep 12, 2026
Social Sciences
Seven metal detectorists become millionaires from Norman coins found in Somerset field
Sep 11, 2026
Social Sciences
Paris's highest viewing deck closes for complete rebuilding until 2030
Sep 10, 2026
Social Sciences
A woman hired at 84 into a temporary National Park Service role in Richmond, California, became a permanent ranger at 89 and gave her last…
Sep 4, 2026
Social Sciences
In 1994, the last Coast Guard keepers left New Dungeness Lighthouse
Sep 4, 2026
Social Sciences
A Colorado ski area retired all 220 chairs from a lift installed in 1972 when it replaced the old lift
Sep 3, 2026
Social Sciences
Rome scoops roughly 1.5 million euros a year in coins out of one fountain and gives it to a charity that runs a food bank
Sep 2, 2026
Social Sciences
Steven Spielberg was rejected by USC’s film school because his grades were not good enough
Aug 28, 2026
Social Sciences
South Korea led the world in instant-noodle consumption per person from 2013 through 2020, before Vietnam overtook it in 2021 with an…
Aug 28, 2026
Psychology
Cultures that still protect an afternoon rest period aren't fighting biology, they're working with it
By Nato Lagidze · Aug 19, 2026
Social Sciences
In 1932 Australia sent a small artillery detachment with machine guns to cull thousands of emus damaging Western Australia’s wheat fields…
By Mal James · Jul 23, 2026
Social Sciences
Say pyramids and everyone pictures Egypt, but the country with the most of them lies to its south
By Mal James · Jul 22, 2026