Strangeness | Vintage News
Jack Johnson, “the Galveston Giant,” became the first African American world heavyweight boxing champion in 1908
The ‘Flintstone’ village in southern Spain where many houses were built inside a cliff
Pet Dogs were Forbidden in the Capital of Iceland until 1984
When a shark spit out a man’s arm with a boxer tattoo, it launched a murder investigation that led to fraud and organized crime
Two friends with a metal detector were thrilled to discover Roman coins in a Suffolk field, but their joy lasted only 24 hours
The Blackbird is a full-size playable violin made of black stone
Eddie Mannix: the real-life Hollywood fixer, studio executive, and producer who inspired Coen brothers’ “Hail, Caesar!”
In Ancient Egypt, cats were mummified and buried with jewelry, and harming a cat was an offense that could be punished with death
In WWI, India provided the largest volunteer army in world history, and its numbers were crucial to the war’s outcome
Personal diary of Samuel Pepys is one of the primary sources of the Great Fire of London in 1666, destroying 80,000 homes in three days
