In 1st century A.D., Hero of Alexandria designed the first vending machine–it dispensed holy water after insertion of a coin News Self-Propelled 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
A group of 18th century settlers tried to secede and create their own State of Franklin, but Benjamin Franklin himself wasn’t interested News Strangeness
The Boy Jones: When a teenager broke into Queen Victoria’s bedroom and stole her underwear News Lifestyle Strangeness
The actor who portrayed Luca Brasi in ‘The Godfather’ was hired as a bodyguard for a real mafioso on the set, until Francis Ford Coppola “fell in love” Lifestyle Strangeness Vintage Hollywood
Mystery solved on the resting place of the prolific Ming Dynasty poet and playwright known as the “Chinese Shakespeare” Archeology Lifestyle Strangeness
Cambodia’s Angkor Wat used far greater amounts of stone than all the Egyptian pyramids combined Strangeness
“Baby airing”: To boost their health, new mothers in the early 1900s put their infants in windowsill baby cages Interiors Lifestyle Strangeness