America’s Ugly ‘Ugly Laws’
Anonymous
May 4, 2022
In the 1880s, you could be fined for being ugly in public. Ordinances across the United States disallowed anyone who was “diseased, maimed, ...
Why The Soviet Union Advertised Products That Didn’t Exist
Kaushik Patowary
May 4, 2022
The purpose of commercials is to advertise products and drive sales, but in Soviet Russia under communism they served an altogether differen...
Ne Win: A Story of Power, Tyranny and Dolphin Blood
Anonymous
May 3, 2022
Once upon a time, there was a man who bathed in dolphin blood. He believed it would keep him young and healthy while his Stalin-inspired reg...
The Fish That Swims Upside Down
Kaushik Patowary
May 2, 2022
Fishes are great swimmers, and this ability comes not from practice but from anatomy. Fishes have a slender body which they flex back and fo...
How a German Air Raid in Bari Helped Discover a Cure For Cancer
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 28, 2022
On December 2, 1943, the Germans launched a surprise attack on a key Allied port in Bari, Italy, sinking more than 20 Allied merchant ships ...
Uncombable Hair Syndrome
Anonymous
Apr 27, 2022
In a world of 7.87 billion people, there are only about a 100 cases of Uncombable Hair Syndrome (UHS). It is commonly visible in children of...
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...
The Hammersmith Ghost Murder Case
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 18, 2022
In the winter of 1803, residents of Hammersmith, which at the time was a small village on the outskirts of London, was terrorized by a ghost...
The Day BBC Had No News
Anonymous
Apr 18, 2022
You could be idle, but the world is still unfolding. Even in hours of boredom within the four walls of our homes, we are aware of the tremen...
Burana Tower, Kyrgyzstan
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 16, 2022
Set against the backdrop of lofty, snow-covered peaks of the Kyrgyz Ala-Too mountain range in northern Kyrgyzstan, stands a tall isolated mi...
Reverse Waterfalls: When Water Flies Up
Anonymous
Apr 16, 2022
Every monsoon, the Indian subcontinent turns into a land of natural marvel. Cascading waterfalls, dense greenscapes and the smell of earth t...
