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Strange History
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
CONPLAN 8888: The Pentagon’s Contingency Plan for How to Handle a Zombie Apocalypse
Proof of the Bible’s Assertion That Giants Had Inhabited the Earth? The Controversial Cardiff Giant
The Hitler Who Fought the Fuhrer: Adolf Hitler’s Nephew Joined the US Navy in WWII
Phone Booth Stuffing: The Viral Fad that Took College Campuses by Storm in 1959
When the US Fought Insurgents With a Fake Vampire
The Mamluks: The Slave Soldiers Who Ruled Egypt for Centuries
Stalin Wanted to Breed Hybrid Human-Ape Super Soldiers and Workers
Emperor Heliogabalus’ Practical Jokes Ranged From Tame to Terrifying
Bizarre Rulers: The Mad Caliph’s Reign of Terror and Error
Bizarre Rulers: The Mad Caliph’s Mad Reign
The Awkward Princess Bride: Augusta of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Princess of Wales, Barfed on the Queen During Her Wedding
Deaths You’ll Go to Hell for Laughing At: Aeschylus, ‘The Father of Tragedy’, and His Tragicomic Demise
Humor That Backfired Horribly – The Emperor Who Was Slain for Making Fun of a Woman’s Age
The Cute Volkswagen Beetle Started Off as Hitler’s Pet Project
Pythagoras Invented a Special Cup to Prank – and Punish – Greedy Wine Drinkers
Cases That Shocked America: The Skidmore Bully’s Shocking End
Cases That Shocked America: How the Tiny Town of Skidmore Dealt With its Resident Bully
The Astor Place Riot: New Yorkers Almost Burned Down Manhattan Brawling Over Who Was the Best Shakespearean Actor
Weird Weapons – WWII’s Great Panjandrum: Intended to Destroy Germans, it Almost Destroyed Allied Admirals and Generals
Politicians Who Couldn’t Keep it In Their Pants: Mussolini Wanted His Mistresses to ‘Hit’, ‘Hurt’, and ‘Punish’ Him
The Crutchy Push – The One-Legged Australian Gangsters Who Terrorized Melbourne
PROJECT RETRO – America’s Cold War Plan to Stop the Earth’s Spin to Counter Soviet ICBMs
The US Civil War’s ‘Graybeard Regiment’ of Older Soldiers Had an Average Age of 57
Unholy Holy Fathers – Julius III, the Pope Whose Insatiable Passion for Young Boys Scandalized the Church
When America Wanted to Nuke the Moon
Politicians Who Couldn’t Keep it In Their Pants: Felix Faure, the President Who Passed Away While Getting it On
Bad Fads – The 1939 Goldfish Swallowing Craze That Swept American Colleges
Politicians Who Couldn’t Keep it In Their Pants: British Prime Minister Lord Palmerston Passed Away While Getting it on With a Maid
The Truth Behind the Mysterious Crop Circles Phenomenon – A Hoax Started by a Pair of Drunk Prankster Pals
Fat Men’s Clubs – When Obesity Was Celebrated, and Thin Was Not In
Shipwreck Kelly, the Eccentric Who Kicked off a Flagpole Sitting Fad
The Tasaday Hoax: The Isolated Stone Age Tribe That Wasn’t
The First Famous Japanese Holdout: Sakae Oba, ‘The Fox’ of Saipan
Victorians Used ‘Escort Cards’ to Get Around Chaperones, and Secret Romance Codes to Flirt in Public
Deaths You’ll Go to Hell for Laughing At: Adolf Frederick, the Gluttonous King Who Ate Himself to Death
When Napoleon Bonaparte Was Beaten by Bunny Rabbits
WWII’s Operation Cottage – When the Allies Suffered Hundreds of Casualties Invading an Undefended Island
Animal Trials: Animals That Acted Up in Middle Ages Europe Were Criminally Tried in Court
The Real Robinson Crusoe: Castaway Alexander Selkirk
Spooky Accounts of George Washington’s Ghost Haunting Mount Vernon
Japanese WWII Holdouts – The Anatahan Island Castaways, Part II: Refusing to Surrender for Years After the War Ended
Japanese WWII Holdouts – The Anatahan Castaways: Dozens of Sailors and Soldiers Stranded on an Island that Had Only One Woman
Disco Demolition Night – When Disco Haters Rioted and Disco Died
When America Almost Became a Nation of Hippopotamus Ranchers
Japanese Holdouts: Why Did Many Japanese Refuse to Surrender After WWII Ended?
Deaths You’ll Go to Hell for Laughing At: Gary Hoy, a Lawyer With an Unhealthy Fixation on High Rise Window Strength
When Virginia Woolf Put on Blackface to Prank the Royal Navy
Deaths You’ll Got to Hell for Laughing At: Clement Vallandigham, the Lawyer Who Accidentally Shot Himself in a Courtroom
Deaths You’ll Go to Hell for Laughing At: Catherine the Great’s Awkward Demise
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