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In the Middle Ages, people thought farting in jars and sniffing them would help prevent death. True or false? Weirdly enough, it actually checks out as true. In fact, during the Great Plague of ...
Image credits: weird_hist Rosalind Jana described it best, when they wrote the following for the BBC: “On a sweltering summer's day in July 1518 a woman called Frau Troffea steps into a square ...
Image credits: conspiracyfeedig While this list features more stories that claim to be true than fringe theories, the @ConspiracyFeedIG account does says that it’s dedicated to sharing “mind ...
These are a series of incomplete lists of unusual deaths, unique or extremely rare circumstances of death recorded throughout history, noted as being unusual by multiple sources. The death of Aeschylus , killed by a tortoise dropped onto his head by an eagle , illustrated in the 15th-century Florentine Picture-Chronicle by Baccio Baldini [ 1 ]
From fascinating bite-size tidbits about science, to celebrities, history, and the plain weird and bizarre. The “Today I Learned” (TIL) page is a go-to corner of the internet, where a whopping ...
BSc meteorologist Janice Davila tells Bored Panda that one of the most unknown facts from her field of expertise is that weather radars are slightly tilted upward in a half-degree (1/2°) angle.
Räisänen, a 16-year-old basketball player disappeared in downtown Tampere on 16 October 1999. The last confirmed sighting of her was at 10:50 p.m. local time. Due to an EU summit being held in Tampere on the same day, security had been tightened, and there were policemen from all over the country. Räisänen was declared dead in absentia in 2007.
And the Instagram page ‘Unbelievable Facts’ is one of the best places to do just that. Every day, they share fascinating trivia, building a collection that now includes over 10,000 unique facts.