Category: Facts
This ancient Olympic athlete competed 2,500 years ago With the body of a Greek statue, he would have been the ideal of the Olympic style hero. While his name …
Being a Medieval jester was no joke A medieval jester was a juggler, confidant, scapegoat, prophet, and counselor all in one. They came from any background : university dropout, …
Medieval nicknames weren’t all glorious Medieval kings and rulers often got nicknames. Some epithets like Charles the Bald and Charles the Fat are self-explanatory, if not very flattering. For …
The Doomsday Clock is the fateful brainchild of a group of atomic scientists who worked on the first nuclear weapons. The concept is pretty simple – the closer the …
Some weird Sloth facts : it takes a sloth a month to digest a leaf, about a minute to move 15 feet and about 6 hours to make it …
From reincarnating without the government’s permission to watching a Claire Danes movie in Manila, check out 10 things that you won’t expect to be banned. 10. Satan’s Brew Coffee …
The technological inventiveness of the Industrial Revolution extended to mental health inventions intended to shock and startle the mad back to their senses. From revolving patients at 100 rotations …
During the time of the medieval Black Death, the city of London published weekly statistics of people who’d died that week and from what cause. As you’d expect, “plague” …
In supernatural burials, The dangerous dead were buried face down, bricks shoved in their mouths, staked, nailed or decapitated. Born out of wedlock, unbaptized, conceived during a holy time, …
The Recent controversy over trans people and bathroom use exposes a subject we usually keep a lid on – the humble toilet. The practice of gender-segregated pooping and peeing as …
The Rocket Girls started out as a group of “computers” at the Jet Propulsion Lab. Using only paper, a pencil, and their minds they were responsible for all the …
