Hobbies From The Victorian Era That Seem Bizarre Today
Many leisure activities enjoyed by Victorians look bizarre from a modern perspective. Here are some of the strangest free-time activities of the 19th century.
Read MoreMany leisure activities enjoyed by Victorians look bizarre from a modern perspective. Here are some of the strangest free-time activities of the 19th century.
Read MoreHere is the untold truth of the European Union, including surprising details from the distant past, some of the crises it has faced, and what the future holds.
Read MoreThe online auction site, eBay, sells almost anything. The strangest article may have been sold in 2008, when an Illinois-shaped corn flake went for $1,350.
Read MoreIf you ever needed proof that big-name touring music acts live lives different from most people, all you really have to do is check their contract riders.
Read MoreThe days of showing up on time and simply boarding your flight are a distant dot in the nation's rear-view mirror. Does scanning electronics separately help?
Read MoreHere's why certain people think that the Eminem of today is a clone of the original.
Read MoreThe Aztecs were a sophisticated society, with a culture of philosophy, religions, poetry and more. Here's what pre-colonized Mexico was like for the Aztecs.
Read More19-year-old Jessica Chambers was burned to death, but she lived long enough to mutter a possible name of her killer. Here is the bizarre case of her murder.
Read MoreThe Kremlin is a fascinating subject for paranormal, subterranean, and history enthusiasts. Here are just a few of the Kremlin's untold stories.
Read MoreToday we remember Joan of Arc mostly from novels and bad movies.
Read MoreLet's open the vault and explore the untold truth of Al Capone.
Read MoreThe legacy of Phineas Taylor Barnum is a cultural monolith built on murky ground.
Read MoreStories of the Petrified Forest curse have been passed down through generations and kept alive by hundreds of thousands of park visitors over the years.
Read MoreLynyrd Skynyrd was first composed of guitarists Gary Rossington and Allen Collins, bassist Larry Junstrom, drummer Bob Burns, and vocalist Ronnie Van Zant.
Read MoreThe search for alien life has been going on for decades with little luck. However, the Exotica Catalog is a definitive dataset helping scientists in the search.
Read MoreWhile history has given most of the credit to "inventing" air conditioning to one man, his invention was built on earlier work by others.
Read More"Tubthumping" may have thrust the anarchist collective into the public eye – but fame didn't change the band. Chumbawamba stuck to their anarcho-communist guns.
Read MoreCharles de Young and Isaac Kalloch's feud culminated in two shootings. This is the murder of the San Francisco Chronicle founder Charles de Young explained.
Read MoreFor many, the U.N. boils down to the fact that it makes rules that the whole world is expected to follow. So the United Nations has a lot of untold truths.
Read MoreSome UFO incidents just seem to defy explanation. Here are some bizarre details about UFO sightings that don't add up.
Read MoreWe're giving it away, by the way, so take a trip to the otherside, the coffee shop, or around the world and learn lots about the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Read MoreAfter the fall of the USSR, NATO survived with a little bit of rebranding and has continued to maintain a presence in Europe. This is the untold truth of NATO.
Read MoreWith Russia regularly making news headlines, there's, unsurprisingly, a lot of focus on the country's president. This is the untold truth of Vladimir Putin.
Read MorePart of the fun of dissecting a conspiracy theory is coming up with creative connections on the flimsiest of circumstantial evidence of current or past events.
Read MoreTammy Lynn Leppert was an 18-year-old actress and model who was last seen in July 1983.
Read MoreMany people think that to maintain its prominence, the NBA simply must be up to something. These are the biggest conspiracy theories about the NBA.
Read MoreBelieving in ghosts doesn't hurt anyone, and also it's fun. But, scientists can't resist endlessly telling us how wrong we are about why people see ghosts.
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