Strangeness | Vintage News
Vochol- The Volkswagen Beetle decorated with more than 2 million glass beads
That time when the US Delta Force blasted Van Halen, The Clash, and AC/DC’s music for three days to force Manuel Noriega out of the Vatican Embassy
Radium Girls, female factory workers exposed to radium poisoning without their knowledge, were even encouraged to lick radium paintbrushes
The year 1816, the “Year Without a Summer,” saw floods, food riots, gorgeous sunsets, and “Frankenstein”
During the California Gold Rush, an English would-be prospector published and sold 100,000 copies of his satirical Miners’ Ten Commandments
The Yakhchāl was an ancient Persian “refrigerator” that stored food and even ice long before electricity was invented
The 1920s perpetrators of the “perfect crime”: Leopold and Loeb
Ned Kelly – The most famous Australian Bush Ranger
Fantastic fossil find: a dinosaur with swan-like neck and crocodile teeth that walked like a duck and swam like a penguin
The Antikythera mechanism, an ancient analog “computer”, said to be “more valuable than the Mona Lisa”
