World’s largest engine makes 109,000 horsepower–Titanic’s was ‘only’ 15,000hp Self-Propelled Strangeness
English brewery delivered bottles of beer door-to-door via horse and cart to keep people out of pubs News Self-Propelled Strangeness
The Lady of Elche, a strange and striking ancient sculpture discovered in Spain in 1897, bears resemblance to Princess Leia Strangeness Archeology Glamour Interiors
Astounding discovery: There was life on Earth some 3.5 billion years ago in oxygen-devoid environment News Archeology Strangeness
When Julius Caesar brought the first giraffe to Europe, the perplexed Romans called it a “cameleopard” Strangeness Archeology News
Shaka Zulu, the man who forged a feared empire out of a tiny tribe in southern Africa News Strangeness
“The House of the Rising Sun” predates New Orleans, it begins with 16th century bawdy houses fatal to young men News Glamour Lifestyle Strangeness Vintage Hollywood
The last Tasmanian tiger, a much-misunderstood species, died at the Hobart Zoo in 1936 News Strangeness
Greenland sharks considered the world’s oldest vertebrate, with a new study dating one at up to 512 years old News Strangeness
Millvina Dean, last survivor of the Titanic, was forced to sell her Titanic memorabilia to pay health bills at 96 News Self-Propelled Strangeness