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Strange History
Petr Mikhailovich Borisov, the Soviet Scientist Who Wanted to Melt the Arctic Ice Cap
Myths and Realities: Did Medieval People Avoid Water and Drink Alcohol Instead?
Deaths You’ll Go to Hell for Laughing At – Alexander of Greece, the King Killed by a Monkey
Bruce Carr Left Base in a USAAF P-51, and Returned in a German Fw 190
America’s Wilderness Could Have Been Full of Wild Elephants if Not for Abraham Lincoln
Cacareco: The Rhinoceros That Won an Election
Soccer’s Surprising Role in Kicking Off the Cuban Missile Crisis
Ferrante I: The King Who Displayed His Mummified Enemies in an Exhibit
Looty: Queen Victoria’s Looted Dog
Operation Paperclip: The Program That Brought Hundreds of Nazi Scientists to the US
‘Royal Fowl’: For Centuries, All of England’s Swans Have Belonged to the King or Queen
Wilhelm Voigt: Drifter Who Robbed a Town By Dressing in an Officer’s Uniform and Ordering Officials to Hand Him the Treasury’s Contents
How Baseball Helped US Intelligence Track Cubans During the Cold War
The WWII American Airman Who Survived a 22,000 Foot Fall Without a Parachute
Ancient Physicians Swore by Crocodile Dung Contraceptives and Poop as Medicine
Public Panics: The Great Poisoning Scare of Milan
When Exxon-Mobil’s Predecessor Bragged About Melting Glaciers
The Paratrooper Who Led His Men Into Battle Carrying an Umbrella
The WWII Intelligence Screwup That Almost Placed New Zealand Under Martial Law
History’s Deadliest Fart Killed More Than 10,000 People
The Great Moon Hoax: The Nineteenth Century Discovery of Life and Civilization on the Moon
‘Thief-Taker General’: The Crime Buster Who Was a Criminal Kingpin, and Gave Us the Term ‘Double Cross’
Medieval Eel Money: When Eels Were Used as Currency
The Math Mistake That Led to Columbus Discovering the New World
The Pilgrims Landed on Plymouth Rock Because They Were Running Out of Beer
The WWII American Ace Who Deliberately Shot Down an American Airplane – and Got a Medal For It
Bizarre Rulers: Bokassa I, the Emperor Who Ate His Subjects
The Eighteenth Century Wig-Snatching Crime Wave
Plot Twists: The Anticommunist Koch Dynasty’s Founder Worked for Stalin – and Hitler
Medieval Divorce Duels: When Couples Had to Fight Their Way Out of Unhappy Marriages
President John Quincy Adams Thought Earth Was Hollow, and Backed an Expedition to Trade With the Mole People
‘The River of Blood’: A Mysterious US Civil War Battle Historians Can’t Corroborate
Shanfara: The Vengeful Bandit-Poet Who Continued to Kill Enemies After His Death
The Ancient Romans Cleaned Their Teeth and Clothes With Urine
Medieval Dance Plagues: When Communities Went Dance-Crazy, and Hundreds Danced to Death
Joanna the Mad: The Queen Who Dug Up Her Buried Husband’s Corpse and Slept With it For Years
The Math Mistake That Made Spinach a Super Food
The Incompetent Bodyguard Who Got Lincoln Killed
Thomas Jefferson’s George Costanza Moment: Shipping a Rotting Moose to France to Win an Argument
Ta’abbata Sharran: The Fierce Ancient Arabian Bandit Whose Own Mother Wanted Dead
Bill Mauldin: The WWII Cartoonist Who Enraged General George S. Patton
The West Virginia Town That Sought Soviet Foreign Aid to Build a Bridge
Little Boys Wore Dresses for Most of History – When Did We Start Clothing Them in Pants and Shorts?
When America’s Most Useless Vice President Fell for a Mean Political Prank
Weird Deaths: Actor Albert Dekker’s Extraordinarily Bizarre Demise
Japan Refused to Accept Poland’s Declaration of War in WWII, and Instead Helped the Poles Spy on Japan’s German Ally
Holdouts: The Japanese Privates Who Hid In Iwo Jima’s Tunnels for Years After WWII Ended
Beating the Bobbies as Sport: Victorian Londoners Used to Attack Police for Fun
Eerie Accounts of Queen Catherine Howard’s Screaming Ghost at Hampton Court Palace
Benjamin Grierson, an Outstanding US Civil War Cavalry Commander, Feared and Hated Horses
Thomas Jefferson Went From Dog Lover to Wanting to Exterminate All Dogs
Victorians Feared that High Train Speeds Might Make Women’s Uteruses Fly Out of Their Bodies
Unexpected Twists: How North Korea’s Communist Dictator Saved Taiwan From China’s Communists
Beefs: Rick James vs Prince, and the Time the Super Freak Wanted to Beat Up the Purple One
Al Basus: The Forty-Year War Fought Over Disrespect Shown a Camel
Baseball’s Biggest Hex – The Curse of the Billy Goat
‘Old Hickory’ Andrew Jackson: The US President Who Almost Beat His Would-Be Assassin to Death
Awkward Misunderstandings: George S. Patton and the Honored Latrine
The WWII American Plan to Feminize the Fuhrer
Calvin Graham Joined the US Navy at Age Twelve, and Became WWII’s Youngest American Servicemen and Medal Recipient
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