Category: Facts
The London Necropolis Railway from Waterloo Station to Brookwood Cemetery was the most haunting train line in Britain. In the 1800s, London was burying 50,000 dead each year — …
The CIA worked on a surveillance cat project called Acoustic Kitty during the 1960s. They made a monstrosity That’s actual cats surgically implanted with microphones and radio transmitters—designed to …
From smearing on arsenic to bathing in viper juice, history shows there’s nothing we won’t try to rid ourselves of lice. Lice and nits (lice eggs) were our constant …
The Stasi stole people’s underwear to make a library of their smells. Image Source When the Berlin Wall fell, merrymakers found something rotten at Stasi headquarters. Hundreds of jars …
Tobacco smoke enemas were used in the 18th century to treat everything from colds to cholera. In 1746, one of the earliest documented references to a tobacco smoke enema involved …
In 1931, Churchill predicted lab-grown meat. The first lab-grown hamburger arrived three decades behind his schedule. In “50 years hence“, Churchill wrote: “With a greater knowledge of what are …
An Antipope is someone who sets himself up as a rival pope or imposter. (impopester?) It must be good to be the pope; there’ve been at least 42 Antipopes. …
First Lord Sea Admiral Arthur Wilson called submarines “underhanded, unfair, and damned un-English”. Their sailors should be “hanged as pirates”. Wilson went on to say that the undersea boats …
There is a Scottish tartan designed for Mars exploration. That’s right, a Martian Tartan. The tartan was designed by Geoffrey (Tailor) Highland Crafts on behalf of Charles Cockell, astrobiology …
Joe Medicine Crow became a war chief of the Crow Tribe while fighting WW2. During WW2, Joe Medicine Crow became a war chief by touching an enemy without killing …
This is a history of the world told in hilarious bloopers collected by teachers throughout the United States. These bloopers go from eighth grade all the way through college level. …
The word of that day is Tsundoku – the practice of buying a pile of books and then not getting around to reading them. “Tsun-doku” 「積ん読」 came from 「積んでおく」 …
