Onions were so important in the Middle Ages that people paid their rent with them and gave them as gifts Strangeness
American doctors earned $40 million for whiskey prescriptions during the prohibition News Strangeness
Hoop Rolling: A popular children’s pursuit since Ancient Greece, in the 1840s there was a movement to ban it Strangeness
Thomas Lyle Williams created the first Maybelline mascara using petroleum jelly, coal dust, and ashes of a burnt cork Glamour Lifestyle News
All King Eric did was cause conflicts and create enemies, and when he was about to be deposed, he fled the kingdom and became a pirate Strangeness
Two mummies in the British Museum reveal some of the world’s oldest known tattoos, including that of a bull News Archeology
Herman Kahn: The physicist, nuclear-war strategist, and Cold War “scenario planner” who inspired Kubrick’s “Dr. Strangelove” Strangeness