Operation Vegetarian: in 1942, the British planned on killing millions of Germans by dropping anthrax onto their pastures Battlefields News Strangeness
Jean-Paul Sartre’s bad mescaline trip led to the philosopher being followed by imaginary crabs for years Strangeness
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Eva Mozes Kor, a Holocaust survivor and a Mengele twin, chose to forgive the Nazis Strangeness Battlefields
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Château de Blois: the beautiful French palace where Joan of Arc was blessed before defeating the English at Orleans Interiors Glamour
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Palais des Papes: the large Gothic building that housed the anti-popes became a prison during the French Revolution Interiors News Strangeness