Two maneless 9ft long man-eating lions killed over 135 workers on the Kenya-Uganda railway in 1898 Strangeness
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Albert I, King of the Belgians – personally led the defense against the Germans and the Queen served as a nurse News Featured
Living Root bridges- The suspension bridges in India handmade from the aerial roots of living banyan fig trees Strangeness
The real story behind…A boy left his bike chained to a tree when he went away to war in 1914 Strangeness
The Pirate Cemetery of Madagascar. Ile Sainte-Marie was the off-season home of an estimated 1,000 pirates News Abandoned Spaces Featured
Corned Beef sandwich in space that nearly killed everyone: Stories we didn’t learn in history class Strangeness