History

All the streets were extremely dirty and people would go years without bathing.

Growing up in a huge metropolitan city, I’m no stranger to the back pages of the weekly free papers that had ads for scantily clad ladies who offered dates and massages, discreetly of course.

The 1980s gave us some truly classic films. Here’s a list of the top 30 movies of the decade, voted on by fans over at Ranker.

Actress Dorothy Gibson, who was aboard the Titanic and survived, starred in a film called "Saved From the Titanic," which was released just one month after the ship sank.

“Mid-60s BMW motorcycles are remarkably solid, simple machines. This one is as smooth, solid, and responsive as the day it rolled out of the showroom.”

Some insane (perhaps genius) ‘Merican soul decided fried chicken as the buns in a fried-chicken sandwich, slapped with some bacon and cheese in between, was just the kind of thing the world needed.

The richest person that has ever walked on this planet was Mansa Musa, or Musa I from Mali. When he was the reigning emperor of Mali, he had a fortune that would be worth about $400 billion today.

U.S. intelligence officials commissioned mockups of Hitler in possible disguises.

A pilot drives an experimental Rolls Royce machine known as the “Flying Bedstead.”

Artist Chungkong from the Netherlands specializes in recreating movie posters into a minimalistic style. Here are some of the best designs from his collection that gives true meaning to the phrase “less is more”.