The Feathers That Could Buy A Boat (Or Bride)
These feather coils could contain up to 60,000 feathers.
Making A Planet Sandwich Using Longitude And Latitude
Two men, on opposite sides of the Earth, had one goal: make the planet itself into a sandwich.
Charlie McCarthy: The Dummy Only Dummies Didn’t Listen To
More people listened to this dummy than listened to Orson Welles’s “War of the Worlds.”
Podcast For Dogs Launches To Keep Your Pet Calm While You’re Away
Would you play a podcast for your pooch?
A Piece Of The First Trans-Atlantic Telegraph Cable
Messages could take up to 16 hours to send (though this was still much faster than ships).
Astronauts Tried Baking Cookies In Space
Houston, the cookies have landed.
Sealand: The World’s Tiniest Country
It even has its own royal family.
Tumbleweeds Trap Cars For Hours In Washington State
A snowplow had to be called in to wrangle the renegade tumbleweeds.
The History Of Creepy Victorian Christmas Cards
Turnip-men, murderous frogs, and cats could have become the hallmarks of Christmas instead of reindeer, elves, and Santa!
Meet Santa Claus’s Scary Friends
We hope you haven’t been naughty.