Victor Lustig, the smoothest con man in the world, sold the Eiffel Tower–twice
Lavinia Warren’s wedding to Tom Thumb attended by 10,000 in Civil War-era NYC
The Soviet science-academy researcher who invented Tetris received little personal profit
Evidence of a 14,000-year-old settlement found in western Canada
Guy de Maupassant ate lunch at base of the Eiffel Tower everyday so he’d be spared from looking at it
Osamu Tezuka, “father of Manga,” wanted to help Japanese overcome depression over World War II
The last Tasmanian tiger, a much-misunderstood species, died at the Hobart Zoo in 1936 …
1920s Sydney: The opium dealers, cocaine addicts & con artists – back in full colour
Ouch! Splinter-Free Toilet Paper Didn’t Exist Until the 1930s
The wacko & futuristic ‘train zeppelin’ could reach 143 mph
