Jazz Age party queen Zelda Fitzgerald died in a fire whilst sedated & locked in a room waiting for her electroshock therapy …
There was an Iron Age long before people invented iron smelting, thanks to meteors
The Incas did not have any alphabetic writing system, but they did have the Quipu
Stanford Prison Experiment: The 1971 role playing of guards and prisoners brought out more darkness than expected
Salvador Dalí designed the logo for the famous lollipop company “Chupa Chups”
“The House of the Rising Sun” predates New Orleans, it begins with 16th century bawdy houses fatal to young men
The Collyer brothers were found amid 120 tons of belongings, including 250,000 books and several bowling balls, in their Fifth Avenue mansion
The Sentinelese tribe living on an island in the Indian Ocean have rejected outsider contact for centuries and still greet visitors with arrow attack
A weapon like no other: The ancient Chinese Sword of Goujian, found in a tomb, is perfectly sharp after more than 2,500 years
Turkish women had a legal right to divorce if their husbands forbade them from going to hammams, the traditional steam baths
