Hi, I’m Dave, author of all those articles your aunt sent you that you may or may not have clicked on.These include: the most-read post in BuzzFeed history, this ode to grocery store music, the new and improved high school GED test, and this stunning exposé.

He was carrying two pairs of glasses, a pocketknife, a handkerchief, a wallet containing a Confederate $5 bill, and a stack of newspaper clippings.

At the time, rates went as follows: "$16 for the first three minutes between New York and Washington, $21 between Chicago and Washington, and $27 between Chicago and New York."

When work finally started up again in the late 1870s, the builders couldn’t get marble from the original source. That’s why you can still see a slight change in color about a third of the way up the monument today.

In 1945, six people died after one of these balloons hit them while they were having a picnic.

It didn't prove practical, and in the end, only ONE airship ever docked there, and only for a few minutes.

At the time, doctors often gave up on babies born too early, so desperate parents brought them to a showman named Martin Couney, who kept them alive in incubators while crowds paid to watch. The exhibit ran for 40 years, and thousands of babies made it out alive.

Their wool was later auctioned off for $50,000.

Well, not completely frozen over. Water still flows beneath... a comforting thought.

Let's get this going again on TikTok. Who's with me? No one? Okay.

It resides in the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation in Dearborn, Michigan.

I want to believe... that that's not tin foil.

Hot dogs... chili... banana pudding... not too shabby.

They're about 75 miles away from the explosion. I don't know, the ramifications of nuclear weapons might ruin my game of Marco Polo.

With the mushroom cloud dress and everything!

It's of Commander Henry Adams and was made during the Perry expedition to Japan, an expedition that forced Japan to open up to international trade.

Well, this is actually before Las Vegas was even founded. It became a city in 1905. 

Got to think Amenhotep III would have loved that.

Though, to be fair... most presidents probably had some gnarly chompers.

Bunny ears weren't invented by then. Neither was the peace sign. You had to come up with stuff to do in pictures on the fly.

That's an American soldier next to a Mexican soldier.

The story is actually fascinating about how it came to be.

Pianos were falling through the floor, entire rooms were shaking... the whole place was basically falling apart like a presidential-grade Bluth model home before he stepped in.

The baby was found dead two months later after a whirlwind investigation involving many, many ransom notes and tens of thousands of dollars.

Legend has it he shot and killed a Confederate colonel instead of surrendering. 

It was held at a place called Boyle's Thirty Acres in Jersey City, New Jersey. Dempsey won.

This picture, captured in 1933, showcases a range of "Hoovervilles," makeshift settlements created by the unemployed and named after President Herbert Hoover.

Looks like he runs the Tilt-A-Whirl like it's the army.

Construction began in 1966 and was finished in 1971.

He famously went on to deliver the speech anyway, clocking in at over one hour.

The unfortunately maimed tree measured 16 feet across.

I think I would have also been the banjo player during the Civil War.

He was a graduate student at Springfield College, tasked with getting young men to be active. Let this be a lesson to you: if you don't invent a sports by the age of 32, you are BLOWING IT.

Dr. Naismith is there in the suit. Surrounding him is John G. Thompson, Eugene S. Libby, Edwin P. Ruggles, William R. Chase, T. Duncan Patton, Frank Mahan, Finlay G. MacDonald, William H. Davis and Lyman W. Archibald. Now THOSE are some old-timey names. I think the Raptors would hang 1200 on them.

"Boy, this Mort Cooper guy can really slang it."

The 1890s Coke holiday party probably went hard.

That's baseball hall-of-famer Charles "Old Hoss" Radbourn with his Boston Beaneaters teammates. We need more teams named after consuming legumes.

Imagine watching Bar Rescue on that. Chills.

Think they could beat the 2026 Colorado Rockies?

What is an arch but two big lines intersecting at the top? I know, that's deep.

You can look up his crimes if you really want to know them. He received a 30-year sentence in 1971 and was released in 1991.

Can we get some Al Swearengen quotes going in the comments?

Gemini 8 was the first time two spacecraft connected in orbit, back in 1966. I would personally not be so chill after floating around space and landing in the vast, empty ocean.

Can't say that would be my first "don't need to use the bathroom" meal choice.

Specifically in the direction towards Santa Barbara. Would love to cruise down those roads listening to Grand Old Flag or whatever they did back then.

Farmers, cooks, firemen, janitors - lots of different trades represented.