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

There were actually two boats of Pilgrims that left England for the US, and Plymouth Rock was not the first place the Mayflower disembarked.

Witness how childhood boredom escalated into the mass hysteria that led to the Salem Witch Trials.

The Articles of Confederation proved to be more trouble than help, with individual states all pushing their interests and agendas, to the point of threatening the country as a whole.

Our vision of Paul Revere's midnight ride is all wrong, especially how it concludes.

George Washington was preceded by several other Presidents of the United States.

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

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 ...

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.

There are many common misperceptions about Hoover and FDR as political foes and as lawmakers.

Common perception is that the Lincoln and JFK assassinations have many parallels, but not so many when fact is separated from fiction.

Route 66 is the most famous road built in America except it was actually made by connecting existing major highways together. And it was constantly mutating.

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

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?

Paul Revere has been billed as America?s first action hero after his famous "Midnight Ride" but as truth would have it, he was part of a network.

Some of the most noteworthy photographers from the Civil War would move bodies around on the battlefield in order to achieve dramatic effect.

A small anecdote from the crossing of the Mayflower to America reveals that an indentured servant, John Howland was swept off the deck of the ship during a storm, and that had he not been saved US history would have taken a different turn.

There were actually two boats of Pilgrims that left England for the US, and Plymouth Rock was not the first place the Mayflower disembarked.

Witness how childhood boredom escalated into the mass hysteria that led to the Salem Witch Trials.

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.

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 ...

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

The two-day weekend wasn't always the case. What caused the 20th century weekend we've all come to know and love?

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.

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!

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.

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

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.

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.