The Shang Dynasty is responsible for the earliest written records in China and first to use a 365-day calendar. The Kings built palaces, defensive walls, and also functioned as the high priest.

Despite America’s preference for isolationism, FDR backed allied forces with military supplies with the passage of the Lend-Lease Act in 1941, giving Britain the artillery and war machines needed to fight nazi aggression.

The 2004 tsunami on Boxing Day would prove to be the deadliest in recorded history, taking a staggering 230,000 lives after a 9.1 earthquake ripped through an undersea fault in the Indian Ocean.

Also known as Sasquatch, the legend of Bigfoot is a widely-known yet little-seen creature with over 4,600 professed sightings and a pseudoscience denomination known as cryptozoology attempting to prove its existence.

After the unthinkable sinking of the Titanic in 1912, theories of conspiracy among the wealthy and powerful began to emerge to explain the deaths of 1,517 passengers.

The Anunnaki are a group of deities who appear in the mythological traditions of the ancient Sumerians, Akkadians, Assyrians and Babylonians.

In early 1945, Nazi Germany was on the brink of total military collapse sending Adolf Hitler into an erratic downfall. Hitler’s last days were spent trying to execute perceived enemies within his cabinet and marrying longtime girlfriend Eva Braun before they both took their own lives.