The four penny coffin was one of the first homeless shelters in Victorian England
In Cold Blood: The real murder case behind Capote’s masterpiece
Researchers find genetic proof of interbreeding between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens
“Waterloo” was not the first Eurovision song from ABBA
Victor Hugo wrote “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” in part to raise awareness of undervalued Gothic architecture in Paris
The Werther Effect: A spike of emulation suicides after a widely publicized suicide following Goethe’s novel “The Sorrows of Young Werther”
The bizarre practice of foot-binding was once a symbol of beauty in China
“The Turk” was a fake chess-playing automaton that defeated Benjamin Franklin and Napoleon Bonaparte
Felix Dadaev- The unfortunate body double of Joseph Stalin
The Antikythera mechanism, an ancient analog “computer”, said to be “more valuable than the Mona Lisa”
