New English Canaan, written by Thomas Morton, was the first book to be banned in the US. It was banned in 1637 for its harsh criticisms of the restrictive Puritan customs of the New English colony at the time.
Fact: On August 6, 1945, the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, killing over 140,000 people by the end of the year. This was a key event leading to the end of World War II.
Surfactants in car wash soap reduce water’s surface tension, which lets the soapy water spread evenly over your car’s surface—lifting and suspending dirt, creating foam that clings and cleans.
You've probably heard that feminists burned their bras in the 1970s, but that's not true. This myth arose when feminists protested at the Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City in 1968, and they symbolically threw objects that they felt were confining i
