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Latest Curiosities

James Tilly Matthews And The Air Loom

Feb 21, 2025

James Tilly Matthews was delusional. He believed that secret gangs of people were operating across London, using a bizarre machine called th...

Richard of Pudlicott’s Audacious Heist of The King’s Treasury

Feb 14, 2025

In April 1303, one of the most daring burglaries in English history took place within the walls of Westminster Abbey. Thieves broke into the...

Bachem Ba 349 Natter: Germany’s Strangest Aircraft From World War 2

Feb 7, 2025

World War II led to the creation of some truly bizarre and unconventional aircraft as nations scrambled to gain a technological edge. Among ...

Australian Iron Man: Ned Kelly’s Final Standoff

Jan 31, 2025

Throughout history, many outlaws have gained fame for their exploits, often becoming romanticized figures in folklore, literature, and film ...

The Raising of Mary Rose

Jan 27, 2025

The Mary Rose was a large warship in the Tudor Navy of King Henry VIII. She was the second most powerful ship in King Henry VIII’s fleet an...

That Time The US Tried to Make Rain By Shooting Explosives Into The Sky

Jan 15, 2025

The idea that humans could summon rain at will is historically rooted to superstition, until modern cloud-seeding techniques demonstrated it...

The Strange Death of James Price

Jan 7, 2025

In the world of grand promises and bold claims, the line between confidence and deception can blur all too easily. What begins as ambition c...

William Buckley’s Extraordinary Survival in The Australian Wilderness

Dec 23, 2024

The story of William Buckley—an English convict whose daring escape from a penal colony and subsequent life in the uncharted Australian wild...

Henry Every And The Looting of Ganj-i-Sawai

Dec 6, 2024

Henry Every was one of the most successful pirates to ever operate in the Atlantic and Indian oceans during the Golden Age of Piracy. Though...

The Submarine That Gave Its Crew A Mysterious Sickness

Nov 25, 2024

In 1863, German-American inventor and engineer Julius Hermann Kroehl founded the Pacific Pearl Company with the goal of profiting from pearl...