Did you know that dedicated pet food is a recent invention?
Human beings have held pets for thousands of years. In our time, the most common reaction to seeing our pets hungry is to reach for a bag or can of pet food we bought in...
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Did you know George W. Bush was nearly assassinated in 2005?
On 10 May 2005, 28-year-old Vladimir Arutyunian, a Georgian citizen of Armenian ethnicity, threw a live hand grenade at U.S. president George W. Bush and Georgian preside...
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Did you know Hitler wrote an unpublished sequel to Mein Kampf?
In Mein Kampf, Hitler’s autobiographical manifesto, he outlines his militaristic, racist and anti-democratic world view and future plans for Germany. Although Hitle...
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Did you know the wives of samurai could also perform ritual suicide?
It is widely known that Japan has a tradition of ritual suicide – disembowelment committed using a knife or short sword, popularly known as hara-kiri (a vulgar term which...
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Did you know there was an alleged 335-year war between the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly?
During the English Civil War (1641 – 1651), the Parliamentarians won a string of victories against the Royalists, pushing them farther and farther away from London. Event...
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Did you know the Ancient Egyptians used pillows made of wood or stone?
The ancient Egyptians used pillows made from what would today be considered very unusual materials, such as wood, ivory, or even stone. However, it is worth noting that t...
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Did you know the Nazis employed an alchemist to make gold for them?
It is widely known that SS leader Heinrich Himmler was obsessed with the occult, and employed various occultists to assist in the efforts to build a “thousand-year Reich”...
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Did you know that Alexandre Dumas’s pants allegedly fell down during his first duel, which he still won?
Alexandre Dumas is one of the most widely known writers of high adventure. His most famous works, The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo, Twenty Years After, and...
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