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The Cave With A Thousand Coffins

Hundreds of thousands of wooden coffins are left to slowly rot away in dank Chinese caves in the belief it will let the souls of the depa...

When Jimi Hendrix Got Kicked out of the Army for Masturbating on Duty

In 1961, Hendrix was given a choice between two years in jail or or joining the Army after a run in with the law for riding in stolen ca...

John Lennon's last words to Paul were 'Think of me every now and then, old friend'

In 1981 Paul McCartney flew to Monteserrat, where Beatles producer George Martin had installed a state-of-the-art studio, to begin work o...

There’s a Magical Little Town in the Netherlands Sitting On Calm Waters

The Netherlands is famous for its canals and fairytale-like little towns, but the tiny village of Giethoorn in the North rally stands out...

The London Park Dedicated To Everyday Heroes Who Died Saving Others • Postman’s Park

Postman’s Park is one of the few gardens you can find in the old City of London. It’s just north of St. Paul’s Cathedral But it isn’t jus...

Sleeping At Work: Japan’s Inemuri Phenomenon

The concept of inemuri can be simplified as ‘sleeping on the job’, but a more accurate definition would be ‘being present while asleep’. ...

Josephine Butler: Social Reformer And Someone We Should Learn More About In School

A Victorian Era women’s suffrage campaigner, Josephine Butler also campaigned for the right of women to better education, the abolition o...

Inside The Sinking Of The USS Indianapolis That Ended In A Feeding Frenzy For Sharks

After delivering the components of the Hiroshima bomb in 1945, the USS Indianapolis was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine, leaving nearly...

Little-Known Holocaust History: Fleeing Germany, Then Living In A British Castle

On November 15, 1938, shortly after Kristallnacht, a delegation of prominent British Jewish leaders had met with Prime Minister Sir Nevil...

The Assassinations, Bombings, And Bizarre Fame Of Carlos The Jackal

Born Ilich Ramírez Sánchez in Venezuela, Carlos the Jackal found worldwide infamy in the 1970s as a Marxist revolutionary and terrorist w...

The Traditional German Sword Fighting Art Called Mensur

Academic fencing (German akademisches Fechten) or Mensur is the traditional kind of fencing practised by some student corporations (Stude...

Emily Dickinson’s Coconut Cake, George Orwell’s Christmas Pudding, Alice B. Toklas’ Hashish Fudge

Of all the desserts to attain cultural relevance over the past century, can any hope to touch Alice B. Toklas' famous hashish fudge? Call...

Meet Lonnie Johnson, The NASA Engineer And Inventor Of The Super Soaker

t’s easy to assume that the creators of the vast majority of children’s toys are likely boasting strong backgrounds in marketing, adverti...

The Mind-Boggling History Of Sex Toys, From Ancient Butt Plugs To Steam-Powered Vibrators

With the oldest-known dildo clocking in at 28,000 years, sex toys are older than civilization, religion, and marriage combined. The oldes...

How You Could Buy Perfume In 1925

No, not a Chocolate Orange, this was manufactured in 1925 for Les Parfums de Marcy “L’Orange Variee” perfume. The scent comes packaged in...

A Day In The Life Of A Medieval Executioner In Their 16th-Century Heyday

The daily life of a medieval executioner was not easy. They did more than simply chop off heads and break prisoners on the wheel. Trying ...

The Beautiful Lifelong Bromance Between Robin Williams and Christopher Reeve

The two longtime pals met in 1973 as Juilliard students and were best friends up until Reeve's death in 2004. In his autobiography 'Still...

When Alexander Fleming discovered Penicillin by accident

Fleming was born on August 6, 1881 at his parents’ farm located near the small town of Darvel, in Scotland, UK. His parents, Hugh Fleming...

Inside The Bizarre, 11-Day Saga Of The Disappearance Of Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie is one of history’s foremost crime novelists. But perhaps the author’s most intriguing mystery might just be the case of ...

Inside Matelotage, The Same-Sex Partnerships Between Colonial-Era Pirates

During the Golden Age of Piracy, some buccaneers engaged in matelotage, a form of civil union. Sometimes these arrangements were purely f...

The Rajah from Tipperary (the tale of how an Irish farmer ended up ruling his own kingdom in India)

There have been many great 'adventurers'. People who have through force of will or luck or the ability to bullshit really REALLY well, ha...

Possessed: Voodoo’s Origins and Influence from the Blues to Britney

Vodou (the proper Kreyol/Creole spelling of Voodoo) is a neo-African religion that evolved in the New World from the 6000-year-old West A...

Native Americans Left a Code For Humans To Live By

Certain words of wisdom are followed by every person - regardless of their ethnicity, religion, tribe or culture. These words come from t...

Watch an Art Conservator Bring Classic Paintings Back to Life in Intriguingly Narrated Videos

Even in our age of unprecedentedly abundant images, delivered to us at all times by print, film, television, and especially the ever-mult...

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