The term “hung jury,” a jury that cannot agree on a verdict, was coined in the 1840s.

A dog named "Simone" was featured in the first season of The Partridge Family, though she was phased out of production early in the second season. Like "Tiger" on The Brady Bunch, the dog simply disappeared without an ...Read More

According to Margaret Jones, author of a Patsy Cline biography, there are a dozen places in Virginia that could claim to be the hometown of the nomadic Cline. Her family moved 19 times before she was 15.

Isaac Newton dropped out of school when he was a teenager, at his mother's request. She hoped he would become a successful farmer.

American Indians were cultivating strawberries in 1643. They crushed the strawberries into a mortar, mixing them with meal to make a strawberry bread.

Before 1933, the dime was legal as payment only in transactions of $10 or less. In that year, Congress made the dime legal tender for all transactions.