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The origin of the word 'honeymoon' is shrouded in a 500-year-old literary hoax
After getting married, couples tend to take a vacation. Honeymoons are a way for couples to focus on spending time with each other, leaving the rest of the world behind.But why on Earth is it called a...
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Here's the real meaning behind the 'something old, something new' wedding rhyme
The INSIDER Summary: The rhyme "Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue" dates back to at least 19th century Lancastershire.It refers to five things a bride should wear on her...
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Here's the horrifying truth about why grooms carry brides across the threshold
The INSIDER Summary: Grooms carry brides across the threshold of a room after their wedding ceremony.The tradition dates back to"The Rape of Sabine Women" in Roman mythology.The contemporary meaning...
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26 fascinating things you never knew about Queen Elizabeth II
Queen Elizabeth II might be the most private public figure in the world.She's been on the throne for 65 years and has become one of the most recognizable faces on the planet — but she rarely speaks...
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These historical black-and-white photos have been transformed into colour...
Brazilian artist Marina Amaral has an amazing talent for transforming black-and-white photos into colour.Driven by a fascination for history, she is lovingly faithful to the image's context. It's a...
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Why Russia gave up Alaska
One hundred and fifty years ago, on March 30, 1867, U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and Russian envoy Baron Edouard de Stoeckl signed the Treaty of Cession.With a stroke of a pen, Tsar...
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This is not a joke: Elon Musk once rocketed a wheel of cheese into space
The day after launching a used orbital rocket booster for the first time, tech mogul Elon Musk took to Twitter to tease the future of his aerospace company, SpaceX.On March 30, SpaceX fired off one of...
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Ken Livingstone is waiting to hear about his future in Labour after those...
Ken Livingstone must wait to hear whether he still has a future in the Labour Party following a disciplinary hearing over comments made about Hitler.The veteran left-winger's case will resume on...
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Amazing images of the world's greatest cities before they were cities
Like all living things, cities have lifespans. Some, like Paris, are ancient — over 2,000 years old. Others are adolescent in comparison.Here are the maps, paintings, and old-time photographs that show...
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Amazing images of London show the city's evolution over nearly 2,000 years
Like all living things, cities have lifespans. London started as a small Roman settlement along the Thames River. But today, more than 8.6 million people call the place home.Here are 18 maps,...
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This fascinating time-lapse show how New York City's population density...
Manhattan may seem packed with people today, but the island is not nearly as dense as it used to be.That's evident in a time-lapse map by New York University urban scholars Solly Angel and Patrick...
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14 US presidents who were members of one of the most powerful secret...
Almost a third of the presidents of the US have been Freemasons.It's a statistic that sounds straight out of a conspiracy theorist's fever dream (or "National Treasure," at the very least).Masonic...
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5 'health care' jobs that are thankfully obsolete
You won't find these positions listed on today's job boards. Based in superstition, tradition, and very early science, medical careers of previous centuries can be unrecognizable by modern standards of...
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The remains of a 3,700-year-old pyramid have been discovered in Egypt
CAIRO (AP) — A top antiquities official says an Egyptian excavation team has discovered the remains of a new pyramid that dates back to the 13th Dynasty, some 3,700 years ago.The head of the Ancient...
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Norway has opened a doomsday vault to house the world's most precious books
At this moment, there is a collection of every known crop on the planet embedded nearly 1,000 feet underground, shrouded in the icy arms of Norway's Svalbard mountain.This stockpile is known as the...
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The buying power of the US dollar has changed significantly over the last 100...
The Money Project is an ongoing collaboration between Visual Capitalist and Texas Precious Metals that seeks to use intuitive visualizations to explore the origins, nature, and use of money.The value...
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Here's why people lift the bride and groom on chairs during Jewish weddings
The INSIDER Summary: The Jewish celebratory dance called the horah involves dancing around in circles.At weddings, the bride and groom are lifted on chairs in the middle of the circle.It's all for the...
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The US entered World War I today, 100 years ago — here's a few composite...
Even though World War I may have ended nearly a century ago, little has changed — politicians still rattle their verbal sabres as they send their servicemembers off to defend, or in some cases, meet a...
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Everyone's wrong about why we wear wedding rings on the fourth finger of our...
The INSIDER Summary: The designation of the fourth finger on the left hand as the "ring finger" dates back to 1549.It was a way for the Anglican Church to distinguish their traditions from the Catholic...
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A 1947 ad campaign convinced us all that we need diamonds to get engaged, and...
If you get engaged with a diamond ring, you can thank De Beers.The reason diamonds are the gem of choice is because of a massively successful advertising campaign from one of the biggest diamond...
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