Put away that straight razor: these lumberjacks will show you a thing or two about shaving.

It still counts as a leg day if you just read an article about it.

During the Cold War, America’s leading spy agency relied on an unusual weapon to stop its employees spilling state secrets: motivational posters.

How a brotherly brainstorm caused the biggest publishing event since the invention of the printing press.

Imagine hand-drawing an atlas of the whole Western world, without the use of satellites. These Soviet cartographers came startlingly close.

Merry Christmas! Now please enjoy these archival photos of sinister-looking Santas from the 19th century.

Merry Christmas! Here are some creepy Victorian-era Christmas cards of dead birds and frogs stabbing each other for some reason.

It's been 86 years since Australia went to war with the emu – and lost.

Jack was paid 20 cents a day and half a bottle of beer every week.

The little fellas can survive in deep space and have ties to white-supremacist groups. A mixed bag, all in all.