Articles by Dan Lewis

The Guinness Book of World Records is the de facto standard-bearer for, well, world records. If you want to [...]

Lake Nyos, pictured above, is located in western Cameroon, tucked away near the Nigerian border. [...]

In early December, 2005, a Japanese telecom company called J-Com made its debut on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. [...]

It was around 2:45 A.M. on November 5, 1995. Then-Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien and his wife, Aline, [...]

For the better part of two decades — well into his 70s — Joe Ades followed the same routine. [...]

Potato chips are a go-to snack food ever since their creation in the late 19th century. The origin story of [...]

  The Old City of Jerusalem is home to many sites of significance to many different religions. One of [...]

In the 1950s, a Cornell University professor named Robert C. Baker invented a product which is common, [...]

The Cambridge Dictionary defines “to be like sheep” as follows: “If a group of people are [...]

About 60 hours from now, give or take, most Americans will be eating something involving turkey. For [...]