Strangeness | Vintage News
Loie Fuller, the pioneer of modern dance, performed like a dancing angel
The light at Chicago Union Station resulted from an air raid precaution during WW2
How real was the Tutankhamen Curse and how did it affect the Howard Carter’s team
Angkor Wat used far greater amounts of stone than all the Egyptian pyramids combined, and occupied an area greater than Paris.
The Great Pyramid of Giza was once covered in highly polished white limestone, before it was removed to build mosques and fortresses
That time when the Nazis accidentally bombed the German city of Freiburg
Continuum, a magazine devoted to the idea that AIDS is a conspiracy, went out of print after all the editors died of AIDS
Johnny Cash accidentally started a wildfire that destroyed over 500 acres and killed 49 endangered condors.
The Nazis used to kidnap non-Germanic European children in order to make the “Superior Race”
2000 years before the industrial revolution, Hero of Alexandria invented the first vending machine, which dispensed holy water after you put in a coin
