Emily Jones

We've all basked in the gentle warmth of sunlight, without giving much thought to the fact that this light left the Sun over eight minutes ago, traversing a whopping 93 million miles to reach us.

Christmas Eve 1914 descended towards midnight under bone-chilling skies over Belgium's deadlocked Western Front. For British machine gunner Bruce Bairnsfather hunkering in muddy trenches with the Royal Warwickshires, thoughts drifted homeward across the growling guns.

Paris's iconic Eiffel Tower harbors an intriguing secret - a private apartment built solely for the monument's architect Gustave Eiffel to entertain esteemed guests.

In the spring of 1956, as flowers awakened from their wintry slumber across the wooded valleys of England's Charnwood Forest, an inquisitive teenager named Tina Negus convinced her family to make an impromptu detour.

Today high heels bring impressions of female elegance and sexuality. Yet stilettos actually originated in 10th century Persia worn by male horseback warriors, not court ladies. Throughout history, uncomfortable heels denoted wealth and status across genders and cultures from chopines in Venice to lotus shoes in China.

In the remote mountains of Turkey and Nepal, there's a buzz in the air. It's not your average bee activity, though. These bees create a unique kind of honey - a honey so potent it’s earned the nickname "Mad Honey."