Rohonc Codex
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 26, 2022
The Rohonc Codex is a 448-page illustrated manuscript book written by an unknown author in an unknown language that has baffled scholars and...
Kugelpanzer: The Mysterious Nazi Ball Tank
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 25, 2022
When the Soviet Union invaded Manchuria in 1945 after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the Red Army recovered a strange vehicle from the pos...
Mike The Headless Chicken
Anonymous
Apr 25, 2022
Once upon a time in 1945 there was a couple who owned a farm in Colorado. Lloyd Olsen would spend afternoons chopping off chicken heads, whi...
Can Tapeworms Make You Beautiful?
Anonymous
Apr 23, 2022
“The loveliness of a rival eats into a girl’s heart like corrosion;” says The Ugly-girl Papers: Or, Hints for the Toilet . The Victorian era...
Deciphering Fragments of Egyptian Ceramics
Anonymous
Apr 22, 2022
In February 2022, archaeologists discovered over 18,000 Egyptian ostraca in Athribis. The news was full of headlines about pottery fragments...
The Flying Santa of New England
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 21, 2022
Every Christmas, the families of lighthouse keepers along the coast of New England receive presents from a flying Santa Claus, but the jolly...
The Lake of The Dead: Roopkund
Anonymous
Apr 21, 2022
At a breathtaking altitude of 16,500ft, pristine waters of the Himalayas lay frozen to their depths for most part of the year. Come summer t...
Murchison Falls: Uganda's Most Powerful Waterfalls
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 20, 2022
Murchison Falls, also referred to as Kabalega Falls, is located on the Nile River between Lake Kyoga and Lake Albert in Uganda. The waterfal...
The 17th Century Astronomer Who Designed The First Steam-Powered Vehicle in History
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 20, 2022
On October 9, 1623 Ferdinand Verbiest was born in the town of Pittem (present-day Belgium). Of his early years it is only known that he stud...
A Cannulated Cow Lives With a Hole in Its Stomach
Anonymous
Apr 19, 2022
Imagine being able to look inside a cow. Call it curiosity, or the craving to reveal all of the world’s truths, but the cannulated cow is ma...
