Coffin torpedoes were invented to trap and maim body snatchers, who often stole cadavers for medical students News Strangeness
Jazz musician Jack Lesberg smashed his double-bass through a wall to escape the Cocoanut Grove Fire of 1942, the biggest nightclub fire in history News Strangeness
At his coronation, King Pedro I of Portugal dug up the body of his dead wife, placed it on a throne and demanded that his vassals kiss her hand News
Hitler offered a sizable reward to anyone who could capture and bring Clark Gable to him unscathed Glamour News
Remains of a Stone Age baby, with its teeth still intact, found cradled in mother’s arm in the Netherlands Strangeness News
Cambridge is gifted a rare 7th century garnet and gold Anglo-Saxon cross discovered in the grave of a teenage girl buried in ornamental bed News Archeology