Strangeness | Vintage News
Founded in 1905, Lombardi’s is the first Pizzeria in the United States
Guy de Maupassant ate lunch everyday at the base of The Eiffel Tower, because that was the only place in Paris from which he could not see it …
The Octobass- An extremely large bowed string instrument that was first built around 1850
Victor Hugo wrote “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” to raise awareness of undervalued Gothic architecture in Paris
The language deprivation experiment on Inchkeith Island
There is a replica of Taj Mahal in Bangladesh, it costs $56 Milion
Amish dolls are left faceless, possibly to emphasize that “all are alike in the eyes of God”
Emperor Nero’s Golden Palace had a room with a rotating ceiling that dropped perfume and rose petals down on its inhabitants
Sales tax tokens – during the Great Depression, people used small “coins” worth fractions of a cent to avoid paying too much extra sales tax on small purchases due to rounding
The Romans had a festival where the roles of master and slave were reversed …
