Posts in category Vintage + Historical Oddities

Where do pardoned gobblers go? The luckiest head to Disney World!

It’s inarguable the Thanksgiving food—and the company—have just gotten better over time.

Raccoons are supposedly full of meat less fatty than that of the more-commonly-consumed opossum.

While you’re probably used to sharing some of these famous stories with your kids, their original iterations are certainly far beyond G-ratings.

Audiences packed theaters to laugh at the sisters’ terrible performances. But there’s much more to their story.

From Houdini to Marilyn Monroe, celebrities clamored to Edgar Cayce for psychic readings.

The leftover “rotgut” whiskey from inside these transportation barrels was actually sold to the public as “stiff drinks.” 

This left doctors with only one extreme option: transferring feces into his butt—and not even his own…

Watch as experts dive deeper into the medical history and scientific possibilities of Ripley’s latest acquisition—Abraham Lincoln’s hair!

One idea proposed filling nuclear landmines with chickens.