Barefoot and starved, Spartan boys underwent grueling combat training but were also punished for not answering questions briefly and wittily enough
“Once Upon a Time in America” ruined Sergio Leone’s health and was the last film he directed
Eli Wallach almost got killed three times during the filming of Sergio Leone’s “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”
Krämerbrücke, the beautiful 600-year-old Merchant’s Bridge, packed with half-timbered buildings
Multi-millionaire Roger Babson considered gravity his sworn enemy and kept trying to develop a system to defeat it
‘If you get in that car you will be found dead in it by this time next week’; Sir Alec Guinness predicted the death of James Dean
Victorian fashion: Restrictive, uncomfortable, one fashion item killed over 3000 women
The Antikythera mechanism, an ancient analog “computer”, said to be “more valuable than the Mona Lisa”
The Moberly–Jourdain incident: In 1901, two female academics claimed to have experienced a timeslip into pre-revolutionary France
The Yakhchāl was an ancient Persian “refrigerator” that stored food and even ice long before electricity was invented
