There are several facts and fictions associated with New York City's Empire State Building, like that one about a penny dropped from the top having the ability to kill someone on the sidewalk.

Just as with their flags there are many misconceptions about pirates and how they operated.

Halloween in the early-to-mid-20th century was not a sweet nor pleasant holiday, but an excuse for pranks and general mischief.

The negative characterization of Edgar Allan Poe as a paranoid drug addict with the darkest of minds can be traced back to one man who was a rival of Poe's. There is no proof of drugs and his "darkness" is only inferred because of the scary stori ...

Was President John F. Kennedy really interested in going to space? And how close we were to not being the first to get on the moon?

Many myths endure about Pocahontas, mainly because of the tales told by her contemporary, colonist John Smith.

Air Force One has all kinds of weapons to defend itself... right? And a special skin to protect it? Find out!

Al Capone, a.k.a. Scar Face, was heavily involved with criminal activities before Prohibition, but the ban on alcohol served only to offer him the opportunity to amass enormous wealth. In the end it wasn't brute force that brought him down.

There's much about the events leading up to and the Boston Tea Party itself that is misunderstood.

While Edison is surely one of our greatest inventors, his greatest contribution may have been perfecting existing inventions instead of creating that many new ones.

Benjamin Franklin was inquisitive but never crazy enough to fly a kite in an electrical storm as is often depicted.

The Wright brothers' famous "first flight" was actually their 4th flight of the day, as they had not maintained their flyer in the air long enough to their satisfaction.

It wasn't John Glenn's reentry into the Earth's atmosphere in Friendship 7 that caused the most concern for his Earth-orbiting mission but liftoff in the surprisingly fragile Atlas rocket.

Did you know that NASA went out of its way to embrace the unlucky number thirteen?

The United States Bullion Depository, or the more commonly-referred to Fort Knox, is filled with as many misconceptions as it is gold.

General George Patton’s nickname "Old Blood and Guts" actually doesn't describe the military tactician properly, as he had a relatively low casualty rate, but he could act impetuously, to the misfortune of his troops.