Posts in category Vintage + Historical Oddities

For the rest of Shep’s life, he would be a train station icon, appearing every day in hopes that his master would return by rail.

Recent trends have bakers decorating cakes to look like everyday objects. But throughout history, people have been adding tiny, inedible objects to their cake batter in hopes of revealing what the future may hold.

Some recipes for the cake required unsavory ingredients such as soot, urine, hair, and nail clippings.

Mood rings used the same technology as some of our favorite modern-day devices — probably even the screen you’re reading right now!

What the show didn’t know was that their Bachelor Number One had a criminal record, and Ms. Cheryl Bradshaw could be in great danger.

One of the famous gelatin dishes back in the day was a Lime Cheese Salad which included cottage cheese, mayonnaise, seafood, and of course, lime Jell-O.

Coincidentally, it provided the perfect color for painting flesh tones.

It wasn’t exactly charcuterie-worthy stuff.

Archaeologists used cosmic rays to detect a 98-foot tunnel that could potentially lead to Pharaoh Khufu’s hidden burial chambers.

Over the past four decades, Metallica has become the biggest name in metal. One fan even created a toilet in the shape of the band’s drummer.