Bluetooth technology is named after Harald Bluetooth, a Viking king who died over 1,000 years ago News
More than 80 years after she passed away, Marie Curie’s remains and personal items are still dangerously radioactive News Strangeness
Poe Toaster: For 75 years a mysterious man visited Edgar Allan Poe’s grave, poured himself a glass of cognac, and toasted the great writer News Strangeness
The famous Berlin specimen of Archaeopteryx, a transition between dinosaur and bird, was found by a farmer who sold it to buy a cow News Archeology
The 2-mile-long Marree Man is the second largest geoglyph in the world but nobody knows who made it Strangeness Archeology News
Dresses from the sky: WW2 wedding gowns made from silk and nylon parachutes News Battlefields Glamour Lifestyle Strangeness
“Hanging coffins” are remnants of an extinct funeral ritual of Asia, intended to keep the dead safe News Interiors Strangeness
Strange but True: “The tree that owns itself” is a white oak in Athens, GA, which is widely assumed to legally own itself and the eight feet of land surrounding it News
Aubrey Beardsley and his “morbid imagination” was the most controversial artist of the Art Nouveau era News Lifestyle