Strangeness | Vintage News
French writer 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
In 1982, 150 Icelanders went to the NATO base in Keflavík to look for endangered Elves
Greyfriars Bobby: the dog that spent 14 years guarding the grave of his owner
There is a church in Rome lined with skeletons and a plaque that reads, “What you are now, we once were; what we are now, you shall be.”
6 unbelievable cures for the black death
Thomas Jefferson owned a sheep and kept it in front of the White House where it attacked several people and killed a small boy in 1808
Until World War II, tea bricks were still used as a form of currency in Siberia
The fork came to Italy before any other European country because of pasta
The Queen’s Hamlet: Peek inside Marie-Antoinette’s fairy tale Rustic Village at Versailles, where she loved to act like a “simple peasant”
The Resolute desk in the Oval Office was a gift from Queen Victoria and it is built from the timbers of the British Arctic exploration ship HMS Resolute
