Hyeronimus Bosch’s triptych “The Garden of Earthly Delights” can be closed to reveal another painting on its exterior panels News
Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s “The Little Prince” was partly inspired by a plane crash that left the writer stranded in the Libyan desert News
Baruch Spinoza was expelled from the Jewish community because he questioned the authenticity of the Torah News
Mark Twain, the writer of “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” was a prominent abolitionist and a women’s suffrage activist Lifestyle
There was a secret society for Catholics called “The Order of the Pug.” Novices were initiated wearing a dog collar and had to scratch at the door to get in Strangeness
George Orwell was an avid tea drinker and even wrote an essay on how to make the perfect cup of tea Lifestyle
Before moving to New York to study acting, Marlon Brando was expelled from high school because he rode a motorcycle through the halls Glamour
The atomic bomb that was dropped on the city of Nagasaki was almost dropped on the city of Kokura News