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Fun fact: US president George Washington would never have known the above. He died in 1799, decades before paleontologist Richard Owen first coined the term "dinosaur" in 1842. Related: If You Lived ...

What happens when one of the certainties in the classroom turns out to be costume design, bad mathematics or a judicial system that is constructed to listen to ghosts? The most enduring “facts” in ...

The problem with history is, to state the obvious, that it's already happened. If you're unsure about something, there's no way to go back and check – and almost every historical period is full of ...

After reaching San Francisco — the first winter automobile crossing of the US — teams discovered there was no viable route to ...

When we think of the past, we tend to imagine a series of logical events leading to the modern world, but the timeline is actually littered with moments of pure absurdity. There are certain historical ...

Historian and author Carter G. Woodson is known by many as the “Father of Black History.” Tired of having Black people left out of the American story, he created the first Negro History Week in ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - It is the third day of Black History Month and WTOC has the Black history fact of the day. On February 3, 1870, the 15th Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - It’s day 14 of Black history month and WTOC has your Black History Fact of the day. Today in 1867 the Augusta Institute was organized in Augusta, Georgia. This institution was ...