Today's Juneteenth, one of the most important dates in black American history. Don't know much about it? Read this article!

Quoted: Fuzzy on your Juneteenth history? Some basic background to help boost your historical street cred.

Oh I really want to see this, I wish I had plans to be in London. I find this period in British history so fascinating. Melissa, this fave's for you!

Quoted: A new museum exhibition opens the case file on Jack the Ripper—and affords a grim look at the London of the time—a city made for murder.

Who knew the history of the toothpick could be so fascinating?

Quoted: Charles Forster, born in 1826, was a marketing genius who could've sold beef to a vegetarian. At a time when virtually everything was becoming mass produced, he vowed to make a fortune producing wooden toothpicks.

I'm sort of obsessed with this kind of stuff - I took the Jack the Ripper Tour in London! Anyway, this seems like a pretty sound theory, but there's still not enough concrete evidence. Guess we'll never know for sure!

Quoted: A prominent South African historian says Joseph Silver was likely the notorious murderer.