Victorian fashion: Restrictive, uncomfortable, one fashion item killed over 3000 women
The Antikythera mechanism, an ancient analog “computer”, said to be “more valuable than the Mona Lisa”
The Moberly–Jourdain incident: In 1901, two female academics claimed to have experienced a timeslip into pre-revolutionary France
The Yakhchāl was an ancient Persian “refrigerator” that stored food and even ice long before electricity was invented
Helga Estby, who walked across the United States in 1896 to try to save her family farm
The myth that the Great Wall of China is visible from the Moon originated before any astronaut was even sent into space
Moondyne Joe, the escape artist that no prison could hold, not even a specially designed concrete “escape-proof” cell
Mel Blanc, the voice actor of nearly all Looney Tunes characters woke up from a coma saying “What’s up, Doc?”
The Beja are nomadic people of eastern Sudan, first documented by the ancient Egyptians
During the California Gold Rush, an English would-be prospector published and sold 100,000 copies of his satirical Miners’ Ten Commandments
