“The Turk” was a fake chess-playing automaton that defeated Benjamin Franklin and Napoleon Bonaparte Strangeness Lifestyle
The heartbreaking story of Joseph Merrick, the real “Elephant Man” Strangeness News Vintage Hollywood
Chiune Sugihara, known as “the Japanese Schindler,” saved more than 10,000 lives in Lithuania Strangeness Battlefields
Gail Borden’s breakthrough, life-saving invention of condensed milk was inspired by watching Shakers boil fruit Strangeness
The nostalgic classic “A Christmas Story” actually launched a lascivious Leg Lamp wearing a fishnet stocking Vintage Hollywood Lifestyle
The last of the tattooed women of the Tharu tribe, documented in stunning photographs News Strangeness
Cabaret dancer and U.S. spy Claire Phillips used her Manila nightclub to extract secrets from Japanese soldiers News
The mean-spirited Grinch who stole Christmas was actually inspired by Dr. Seuss himself “on a bad day” Vintage Hollywood
Artist transforms old computer parts and electronics into delicate winged insect sculptures Strangeness
Human remains found in a Mexican cave are believed to be 13,000 years old, but looting of the skeleton an obstacle News Archeology
Victor Hugo wrote “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” in part to raise awareness of undervalued Gothic architecture in Paris Strangeness Interiors Vintage Hollywood