In 2000, Missourians did the impossible: they elected a U.S. Senator who had been dead for three weeks. The bizarre sequence of events that made this legal—and wildly popular—reveals how America's election laws can produce outcomes that sound like they belong in a satirical novel.
Mar 13, 2026
In the 1880s, Congress funded an eccentric scientist's plan to trigger rainfall by detonating massive explosions across the Texas plains. The theory was bizarre, the results were questionable, but the government kept paying for it anyway.
Mar 13, 2026
On a warm January afternoon in Boston's North End, a 50-foot steel tank holding over two million gallons of molasses catastrophically collapsed, unleashing a sticky, suffocating wave that killed 21 people and injured 150 more. It sounds like a joke. It was anything but.
Mar 13, 2026