Barefoot and starved, Spartan boys underwent grueling combat training but were also punished for not answering questions briefly and wittily enough News Strangeness
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The death of Boney M’s singer Bobby Farrel has occurred on the same day and in the same city as the death of Rasputin, the “lover of the Russian queen” … News Strangeness
That time when the fountains at the Gardens of Versailles consumed more water per day than the entire city of Paris News Strangeness
Ed Gein: The terrifying mama’s boy who inspired the creation of Norman Bates, Leatherface, and Buffalo Bill News Strangeness
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Charles Darwin’s cousin invented the dog whistle, meteorology, forensic fingerprinting, mathematical correlation and the concept of inherited intelligence Strangeness
In medieval Europe, narwhal tusks were believed to be the horns from the legendary unicorn, and Vikings were probably selling them for tremendous amounts of gold News Strangeness