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Welcome to the chronicles of history that was never covered in high school. This is for the extreme, the unexpected, the untold and the flat-out weird parts ...
- Bars in Turkey Used to Hire People to Carry Drunk Customers Home in Baskets.
- Sideshow Performer “Lionel The Lion-Faced Man” Just Wanted to Be A Dentist.
- Jack Black’s Mother Was A NASA Engineer Who Helped Save Apollo 13.
- Danish Explorer Ejnar Mikkelsen Survived Two Winters Trapped in The Arctic.
- The Iconic Cartoon “Betty Boop” Was Largely Inspired by A Black Child Performer.
- In The 1958 “Battle of Hayes Pond,” Native Americans Triumphed Over KKK members.
- Calvin Graham Enlisted in The U.S. Navy During World War II — at The Age of 12.
- Three Triplet Boys Were Separated at Birth, But Their Reunion Was Complicated.
- A Man Grew An Entire Self-Contained Ecosystem with One Spiderworts Plant.
- A Mummy Was Once Issued A Passport So It Could Fly to France For Repairs.
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If you wandered the streets of Turkey in the 1960s, you may have come across a surprising sight: a belligerent drunk, being carried in a basket on the back of a hunched man. According to Vintage News Daily, these basket carriers were called küfeci— and they were paid to do this. Though it’s one of the weirdest facts from history, the küfeci’s job w...
Speaking of sideshows, another weird history fact has to do with sideshow star “Lionel the Lion-Faced Man,” a young man whose hypertrichosis condition resulted in dramatic hair growth on parts of his body that wouldn’t usually be covered in hair, like his face. His real name was Stephan Bibrowski, and he dreamt of more than performing in “freak sho...
Jack Black is a well-known actor. But his mother, Judith Love Cohen, had an impressive career all her own as an aerospace engineer at NASA. A trailblazing innovator, Cohen worked on the guidance computer for the Minuteman missile, the Abort Guidance System in the Lunar Excursion Module for the Apollo space program, the ground system for the Trackin...
In 1909, Danish explorer Ejnar Mikkelsenset out to explore the coast of Greenland, hoping to prove the Danish right to an island that the United States had claimed. But soon afterward, Mikkelsen’s ship became ensnared in ice — trapping him and a fellow shipmate named Iver Iversen in the Arctic. As Mikkelsen wrote in his autobiography Two Against th...
Though Betty Boop is a well-known cultural icon, the famous cartoon was largely based off a Black child performer named Esther Jones. She’s not well known today, but in the 1920s, Jones delighted American and European audiences with her singing, dancing, and catchphrase “Boop, Boop-a-Doop.” But her act was taken by a white actress named Helen Kane....
In 1958, Ku Klux Klan member James William “Catfish” Cole led the KKK to Maxton, North Carolina, where he hoped to intimidate the largely Native American population. But members of the Lumbee tribe had other plans. After the KKK publicized their rally, the members gathered in a cornfield near Hayes Pond, just outside of Maxton, on January 18th. The...
When Calvin Graham was 11 years old, he decided that he wanted to fight in World War II. According to the Smithsonian Magazine, Graham “didn’t like Hitler to start with.” And the boy was further inspired to fight when he learned that some of his cousins had already died in battle. So Graham, who lived in a rooming house with his brother, practiced ...
When three triplet boys named Edward “Eddy” Galland, David Kellman, and Robert “Bobby” Shafran, were born in New York in 1961, they were each given away to different families. But in 1980, Bobby ended up at the same college that Eddy had dropped out of the previous year. They were soon reunited, and then David got in touch months later — revealing ...
In the 1960s, David Latimer conducted an unusual experiment. After cleaning out a globular bottle, the English man filled it with compost and a seedling. Latimer gave it a little water then, and a little more water years later in 1972. The seedling then grew its own self-sustained ecosystem. It’s a weird fact from recent history, but according to L...
In 1974, the mummy of Pharaoh Ramses II — who died around 1213 B.C.E. — was in need of restoration work. Because French law required every person, living or dead, to have a passport to enter France, Egypt issued him one. According to National Geographic, the passport included a photo of Ramses II’s ancient, shriveled face, and listed his occupation...
Discover the surprising stories of 19th-century mummy sellers, a bear who became a soldier, and more. These weird history facts will make you wonder how the past was so strange.
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