Disney Left Out the Most Gruesome Aspects of the Original Snow White Story Lifestyle Strangeness Vintage Hollywood
A deaf, middle-aged divorcee founded the Girl Scouts to help young women forge their own paths in life Lifestyle
A group of women at Harvard in the late 1800s catalogued the entire universe but weren’t allowed to vote Glamour Lifestyle Strangeness
Children begged for more and Frank Baum delivered, with 13 sequels to “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” Lifestyle
“Baby airing”: To make sure they had fresh air, new mothers put their infants into baby cages on the windowsills Interiors Lifestyle Strangeness
Lawn jockeys dating back to the Revolutionary War were emblematic of their era Strangeness Battlefields Lifestyle
“Game of Thrones” star Kit Harington has a noble ancestor but not King of the North–John Harington invented the flush toilet in 1596 Glamour Lifestyle Strangeness
Astronauts on Apollo missions left on the Moon five U.S. flags, two golf balls, and a startling amount of refuse Abandoned Spaces Lifestyle Strangeness
Greetings! The high five and the fist bump are 20th century, but the first handshake dates to 5th century B.C. Greece, as way to prove you were weapon free Archeology Lifestyle Strangeness
Only 10 men finished the first Boston Marathon in 1897, an homage to a legendary Greek soldier who ran 24.5 miles—and died Lifestyle Strangeness