Strangeness | Vintage News
“Pandora’s Box”-Pandora was the first woman on earth and the “box” was, in fact, a large jar that contained all the evils of the world
George Crum invented the potato chip after customers kept complaining his fries were too thick
In 1911 Ishi emerged from the wilderness in California, he was the last member of his tribe and also “the last wild Indian” …
Codex Gigas or “The Devil’s Bible” is the largest medieval manuscript in the world
Roman philosophers sported different styles of beards to distinguish which school of philosophy they belonged to
That time when Tony Iommi lost his fingertips in a machine related accident, prompting the birth of Heavy Metal
Frankenstein Castle was the home of alchemist Johann Conrad Dippel, who was the inspiration for Mary Shelley’s gothic novel Frankenstein
The ancient Greeks had a drinking game called Kottabos
With numerous phrases and hermetic symbols, Rome’s Mysterious Porta Alchemica represents one of the few existing alchemical monuments in the world …
Victor Lustig – the man who sold the Eiffel Tower twice
