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Strange History
Moral Panics: When Coffee Was Controversial
Heraclitus of Ephesus: The Philosopher Eaten Alive by Dogs While Immobilized in a Cow Dung Body Cast
When Surrounded US Marines Requested Ammunition and Got Tootsie Rolls Instead
Deaths You’ll Go to Hell For Laughing At: Franz Reichelt’s Leap From the Eiffel Tower
Leslie Harvey: The Rocker Electrocuted to Death Live Onstage
WWII’s Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet, History’s Sole Rocket-Propelled Fighter
Sigurd the Mighty: The Viking Killed by a Dead Enemy
Beefs: Prince’s Rivalry With Michael Jackson Got So Bad, He Tried to Run MJ Over With a Limousine
The Office Safe That Killed Whiskey Distiller Jack Daniel
King Charles III’s Prophet Muhammad Ancestry
WWII’s Boulton Paul Defiant Turret Fighter: An Innovative Idea Based on Bad Assumptions
Chin Shi Huangdi’s Death: The Emperor Who Poisoned Himself Seeking Immortality Drugs
The Shaggs: A Prophecy, a Dad’s Delusions, and an Awful Album that Became a Cult Classic
Laurentius Hornaeus and the Torsaker Witch Trials: The Pastor Who Got Dozens of Innocents Executed
The 1974 White House Helicopter Incident: When a Disturbed Army Private Landed a Stolen Huey on the White House Lawn
La Nueve: The Anarchists Who Spearheaded the Liberation of Paris in WWII
Stalin’s Soviet Millionaires: High Rollers in the Communist ‘Workers’ Paradise’
Project Needles: When the US Seeded Space With Hundreds of Millions of Tiny Needles
The Praetorian Throne Auction: When the Praetorian Guard Sold Rome’s Throne to the Highest Bidder
“Tell Them I Said Something!” – Pancho Villa’s Last Words
The Hammersmith Ghost Hysteria: A Public Panic that Led to a Landmark Murder Case
The Shrigley Abduction: When New Zealand’s Founder Kidnapped and Coerced a 15 y.o. Heiress Into Marriage
The Tycoon and the Teenager: When Actress Jane Greer Rejected His Advances, Howard Hughes Bought a Studio to Wreck Her Career
Ax Murderer John Lynch, Australia’s Outback Serial Killer
Girolamo Savonarola and the Bonfire of the Vanities: A Maoist Cultural Revolution in 1400s Florence
Arrhichion of Phigalia: The Ancient Athlete Who Was Crowned Olympic Champion Despite Being Dead
The Norrmalmstorg Robbery: The Bungled Bank Robbery that Birthed Stockholm Syndrome
Shoe Superstitions Around the World: From Offensive to Bringers of Good Fortune
Iva Toguri: The American Woman Stranded in WWII Japan Who Became ‘Tokyo Rose’
The Flying Gang and Republic of Pirates: When Pirates Took Over the Bahamas
Wealthy Heiress Patty Hearst and the Symbionese Liberation Army: From Kidnapped Rich Girl to Radical Revolutionary
The Baron of Arizona: James Reavis, the Wild West’s Most Brazen Conman
The Monaghan Lunatic Asylum Soviet: The Irish Asylum that Raised a Red Flag and Declared a Soviet
New Holland: When the Dutch Tried to Colonize Brazil
The Great Molasses Flood: When Boston Was Engulfed in a Sticky Tsunami
Himmler’s Family After WWII: The Alternate Moral Universe of a ‘Nazi Princess’
Ten Cent Beer Night Riot: The Worst Promotion in American Sports History
Bizarre Rulers – Charles the Mad, the King Who Feared He Might Shatter Because He Thought He Was Made of Class
When Britain Turned on its Recent WWII Ally and Destroyed an Anchored French Fleet at Mers-el-Kebir
The Nika Riots: History’s Deadliest Sports Hooliganism Was Put Down by Massacring 30,000 Rioting Fans in a Stadium
The Shroud of Turin: A Medieval Forgery and One of History’s Most Resilient Hoaxes
‘KILROY WAS HERE’: World War II’s Most Viral Meme
Zeuxis, the Ancient Greek Painter Who Laughed Himself to Death
‘England’s Worst Husband’: The Marriage of Andrew Robinson Stoney and Mary Bowes, King Charles III’s Ancestress
The 1855 Toronto Clown Riot, Sparked by Clowns Beating Up Firefighters in a Brothel Brawl
Michael Fagan: The Disturbed Man Who Broke Into Queen Elizabeth II’s Bedroom
The Bitch Wars: The Soviet Gulag Gang War that Killed Tens of Thousands
The Sicilian Vespers: How an Indecent Proposal Got Thousands of French Massacred in Sicily
WWII Battle of Los Angeles Panic: The Night LA Was Engulfed by Hysteria and Wild Antiaircraft Firing
Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte: The Napoleonic French Marshal Who Became King of Sweden
Operation Flagship: The Sting that Captured 101 Fugitives With the Promise of Free Redskins Tickets
The 1916 Columbus Raid: When Pancho Villa Attacked an American Town
George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence: The Royal Executed by Drowning in a Barrel of Wine
Marshal Philippe Petain: From Revered National Hero in WWI to Reviled Traitor in WWII
Saint Lawrence, Patron Saint of Comedians, Cracked Jokes During His Execution
The 1914 Christmas Truce: An Interlude of Humanity That Interrupted War’s Horrors
The Donation of Constantine: History’s Most Impactful Forgery
Margaret of Valois and Henry of Navarre: A Marriage that Started With a Massacre and Ended in an Annulment
Sandblom’s Santa: How Coca-Cola Standardized the Modern Image of Santa Claus
The V-3 Cannon: The Super Gun With Which Hitler Wanted to Destroy London
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