Mark Spitz managed to win only 7 of them in Munich. Phelps also holds the absolute record in the total number of Olympic golds in his career with 28 of them, 23 of which...
His wife supported him during the scandal, and she even told NBC that it was all a big right-wing conspiracy against her husband. On August 17, 1998, US President Bill Cl...
On this day in 2000, the Russian nuclear submarine K-141 Kursk sank in the Barents Sea. It was a very large submarine, being 154 meters long – equivalent to two Boeing 74...
On this day in 1953 the USSR detonated its first thermonuclear bomb. Of course, thermonuclear weapons produce much more powerful (up to 1,000 times) explosions than stand...
On this day in 1914 Britain declared war on Austria-Hungary in WW1. This put the multinational Central European empire at war with the world’s greatest colonial power. Th...
The largest and best-preserved Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton to date was discovered on this day in 1990. The skeleton was nicknamed “Sue” after its discoverer, t...
This day in 1689 marked the death of Blessed Pope Innocent XI, one of the popes from the Baroque period. His birth name was Benedetto Odescalchi, and he came from a disti...
K2 is located at an altitude of 8,611 meters, which is only 237 meters less than the height of Mount Everest, the only higher peak on Earth. The first ascent to the mount...