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Latest Curiosities

Prinzhorn Collection: Artistry of The Mentally Ill
Art & Design

Prinzhorn Collection: Artistry of The Mentally Ill

Nov 5, 2026

In the early decades of the 20th century, a physician at a psychiatric hospital in Heidelberg, Germany, began collecting drawings, paintings...

Pasilalinic-Sympathetic Compass: The Snail Telegraph
France

Pasilalinic-Sympathetic Compass: The Snail Telegraph

Nov 3, 2026

In 1850, a French inventor announced a discovery that promised to revolutionize communication. His invention, he claimed, could transmit mes...

The Mummies of Guanajuato
Landmarks

The Mummies of Guanajuato

Oct 28, 2026

In the historic city of Guanajuato, in central Mexico, lies one of the world's most unsettling collections of human remains. The Mummies...

Flocken Elektrowagen: The Electric Vehicle That Arrived Before Its Time
Automobiles

Flocken Elektrowagen: The Electric Vehicle That Arrived Before Its Time

Oct 26, 2026

The electric vehicle might seem like a very modern invention, but is actually as old as automobile itself. It first appeared in the autumn o...

Henry Box Brown: The Man Who Mailed Himself to Freedom
History

Henry Box Brown: The Man Who Mailed Himself to Freedom

Oct 22, 2026

On the morning of March 23, 1849, a wooden box was loaded onto a wagon in Richmond, Virginia. It was an ordinary-looking package, roughly th...

Adele Spitzeder's Banking Swindle
Crime

Adele Spitzeder's Banking Swindle

Oct 19, 2026

In 19th-century Munich, a woman with no formal banking experience began promising ordinary people extraordinary returns on their savings. Wo...

The Zenith Balloon Tragedy of 1875
Aviation

The Zenith Balloon Tragedy of 1875

Oct 13, 2026

On a cold April morning in 1875, three men ascended into the sky above Paris in a balloon, hoping to push the boundaries of human flight. Th...

Charles Vance Millar And The Great Stork Derby
History

Charles Vance Millar And The Great Stork Derby

Oct 6, 2026

On October 31, 1926, Toronto lawyer and millionaire Charles Vance Millar died suddenly of a heart attack. He left behind no wife, no childre...

Project Stargazer: Astronomy From Balloons
Aviation

Project Stargazer: Astronomy From Balloons

Sep 30, 2026

For a few hours on a December day in 1962, two men floated at the edge of space beneath a giant balloon, peering into the heavens through a ...

Douglas Corrigan's "Wrong Way" Flight to Ireland
Aviation

Douglas Corrigan's "Wrong Way" Flight to Ireland

Sep 28, 2026

When Douglas Corrigan climbed out of his weather-beaten Curtiss Robin at Baldonnel Airfield near Dublin on 18 July 1938, he claimed to have ...

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