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‘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
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 Great Moon Hoax: The Nineteenth Century Discovery of Life and Civilization on the Moon
Medieval Eel Money: When Eels Were Used as Currency
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
Medieval Divorce Duels: When Couples Had to Fight Their Way Out of Unhappy Marriages
‘The River of Blood’: A Mysterious US Civil War Battle Historians Can’t Corroborate
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
Thomas Jefferson’s George Costanza Moment: Shipping a Rotting Moose to France to Win an Argument
Lucky Mistakes: Sloppiness Led to a Medical Discovery That Saved Millions of Lives
The West Virginia Town That Sought Soviet Foreign Aid to Build a Bridge
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
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
Phone Booth Stuffing: The Viral Fad that Took College Campuses by Storm in 1959
Bizarre Rulers: The Mad Caliph’s Reign of Terror and Error
Bizarre Rulers: The Mad Caliph’s Mad Reign
Weird Weapons – WWII’s Great Panjandrum: Intended to Destroy Germans, it Almost Destroyed Allied Admirals and Generals
PROJECT RETRO – America’s Cold War Plan to Stop the Earth’s Spin to Counter Soviet ICBMs
Bad Fads – The 1939 Goldfish Swallowing Craze That Swept American Colleges
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
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
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