Here’s why men’s and women’s clothes button on different sides
The Hans Island “liquor wars” between Canada and Denmark may be the cutest dispute in history
Vietnamese police confiscate vast gemstone discovered by farmer
Emma Nutt – The world’s first female telephone operator
Back to the future – In 1880 Alexander Graham Bell invented the photophone, the world’s first device for wireless communications
Adrian Carton de Wiart – shot in the head, stomach, face, ankle, hip, leg and ear. He said he enjoyed the war!
The sad life of William Chester Minor – one of the largest contributors to the Oxford English Dictionary who was held in a lunatic asylum for murder at the time
Sales tax tokens – during the Great Depression, people used small “coins” worth fractions of a cent to avoid paying too much extra sales tax on small purchases due to rounding
Huge bat lived in New Zealand’s ancient rain forest around 16 million years ago
The Romans had a festival where the roles of master and slave were reversed …
