Ne Win: A Story of Power, Tyranny and Dolphin Blood

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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...