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Latest Curiosities

The Best Stories of 2025
Announcement

The Best Stories of 2025

Dec 25, 2025

As another year draws to a close, let us look back at some of the most memorable stories we published over the past twelve months. From curi...

The Bombay Docks Explosion of 1944
Disaster

The Bombay Docks Explosion of 1944

Dec 25, 2025

On the afternoon of 14 April 1944, the city of Bombay, then the jewel of British India’s western coast, was shaken by a catastrophe so viole...

England's Coffeehouses and the Birth of Public Debate
England

England's Coffeehouses and the Birth of Public Debate

Dec 22, 2025

When coffee first arrived in England in the mid-17th century, it brought with it far more than a new beverage. It introduced a radically new...

Charles-Henri Sanson: The Prolific French Executioner
France

Charles-Henri Sanson: The Prolific French Executioner

Dec 17, 2025

In the violent upheaval of the French Revolution, few figures stood closer to death than Charles-Henri Sanson. Kings, queens, nobles, priest...

The Heroic Deed That Earned Karl-Heinz Rosch a Statue
Germany

The Heroic Deed That Earned Karl-Heinz Rosch a Statue

Dec 16, 2025

In the autumn of 1944, as World War II raged across Europe, a moment of extraordinary humanity occurred in the Dutch village of Goirle. On ...

The Lost Forty: How an 1882 Surveying Error Saved a Patch of Forest from Logging
Forest

The Lost Forty: How an 1882 Surveying Error Saved a Patch of Forest from Logging

Dec 11, 2025

In the northern reaches of Minnesota, within the sprawling Chippewa National Forest, lies a rare remnant of America’s ecological past—a 144 ...

The Song of Seikilos
Greece

The Song of Seikilos

Dec 10, 2025

Humans have been making music for thousands of years, as evidenced by fragments of ancient instruments unearthed by archaeologists, such as ...

Britain's K-Class Submarines And The Battle of May Island
England

Britain's K-Class Submarines And The Battle of May Island

Dec 9, 2025

In the years leading up to the First World War, Britain’s Royal Navy faced an existential challenge. Germany’s naval expansion, and especial...

Ambrose Channel Pilot Cable
History

Ambrose Channel Pilot Cable

Dec 4, 2025

The Ambrose Channel pilot cable was an early 20th-century navigational aid installed on the seabed of New York Harbor’s Ambrose Channel, the...

Alain Bombard: The Biologist Who Shipwrecked Himself to Prove a Point
France

Alain Bombard: The Biologist Who Shipwrecked Himself to Prove a Point

Dec 3, 2025

In the autumn of 1952, a small black rubber dinghy drifted out of the Canaries and into the immensity of the Atlantic Ocean. Its lone occupa...

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