50 Odd And Interesting ‘Weird History’ Posts From This Account That Makes Learning Fun No Matter How Old You Are (New Pics)
With real-life facts often being far stranger than fiction, there’s nothing like a good history book to get your noggin’ joggin’ and make you appreciate life from a whole different perspective. I might have started my love affair with history as a subject with the amazing Horrible History book series, but I’ve since then graduated to thick and dusty tomes.
However, I still have a yearning for the more fun and unusual aspects of history that first drew me in. And that’s where the Weird History Twitter page comes into play. A page with 172k followers that’s been active since September 2011, Weird History is the brainchild of Andrew Rader who does, well, pretty much everything: from book-writing to cool space stuff.
Have a look through some of the coolest recent posts made by the Weird History project, upvote the ones that you liked best, and later on consider absorbing some more delicious knowledge from Bored Panda's previous articles about the Twitter account here and here.
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Our world was built from the back of the horse. They are one of the most important creatures who ever lived.
Andrew has a PhD from MIT in long-duration spaceflight, is an expert in space exploration, and has authored a host of academic and technical papers. What’s more, he’s an avid writer, having published books for adults and children alike, and he creates tabletop games in his spare time.
The Canadian, who now lives in Los Angeles in California, has also been extensively featured in the media, including in The New York Times and by Vice. And finally, adding to his great list of achievements, he’s a real trivia aficionado (even having taken home awards) and he’s the curator of the Weird Science account, too.
That might be because in the 1930s, people were still catching tuberculosis from cow's milk. Sick cows can transmit the bacteria through non-pasteurized milk, so if the hospital had its own herd then they could make sure all the beasts were healthy and not infecting the patients.
Since 2014, Andrew has been working at SpaceX as a Mission Manager, while previously he had got 4 years of experience as a Spacecraft Systems Engineer at COM DEV. One of the coolest things about him (at least for me) is that he was a candidate for the Canadian Astronaut Corps back in 2009 and as recently as 2017.
What’s more, he was being considered as one of the potential candidates for a one-way mission to the Red Planet as part of the Mars One project in 2014. It should be clear by now that Andrews’s passion for science and history aren’t just for show—he’s dedicated his life to the pursuit of truth, knowledge, and pushing the limits of mankind. And Weird History… it’s just the tip of the iceberg.
I mean... As far as prison cells go, that surely isn't that bad, right? lol
Fast forward 82 years later and people moan about having to wear a cloth/paper mask on planes.
They build very few structures today that would last even half as long.
Cousins are nice, but when a little horde of bloodthirsty bolcheviks want tu slaughter your family, they are not here to help you.
...and then they replaced the cocaine with something more potent and addictive - refined white sugar.
And nearly 70 years later he's still waiting for her to step down.
Did you read the backstory? She only had suspicions that he was going to leave her or that he had been with a prostitue. No proof. Crazy women exist too.
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After she pulled the Lorena Bobbit her victim had nothing to pull anymore.
Gals, this is seriously worrying. It is NOT ok to mutilate another being out of jealousy. So this man had to pay for the horrors that other men inflict on women? Get your morals in order! And the title is misleading: Lorena was a victim, while Bertha seems to be a psychopath.
So she suspected he had seen a prostitue and then cutt of his weener? Then I don't love the smirk - it's the smirk of a maniac. If it was because he raped someone, ok. But not on suspicions about him going to a prostitute or thinking he was leaving her. That's insane. And those who love her smirk: Do psychopats smile when they do their thing? Do torturers enjoy torturing people?
Okay reading the comments turns out it wasn’t a hundred percent a Lorena and he DID NOT deserve it and she deserves more than five years. Yikes.
Guys? Stop whining. And stop avoiding facts. Men murder, rape, mutilate, and permanently injure women every day. This woman could not vote and was judged by a jury of men. Men commit nine murders for every one committed by women, except they kill women for resisting rape, for leaving them, for refusing dates, and for anything that bugs them. They are judged by a male-dominated legal and justice system. Women, meanwhile, don't have a right to self defense or even sarcasm. A judge gave an 18-month sentence to Kenneth Peacock, who killed his wife HOURS after catching her cheating, so no crime of passion there. Brock Turner was caught in the act of raping an unconscious woman and got six months.
Other wrongs dont make this one right. She could have fought for women rights, instead she committed a horrible crime to her partner. This happens more often vice versa, but do you honestly think that makes crimes against innocent men ok? Yes, he was innocent, cheating is terrible but not a crime.
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I find it most disturbing and also telling how many celebrate this dangerous and sick psychopath, because that is all she is. Do you also celebrate Ted Bundy and all other women slaughters?
Her eyes are all like "I don't always start mayhem, but when I do, I wouldn't mind doing it again" No remorse 😎
She does! And is obviously a bad ass like Janeway
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She thought her husband was cheating on her, and was going to run off to Mexico. Well, he did leave her after this....
She doesn't seem to regret a thing which makes me wonder if he deserved it.
How many criminals don't regret their deeds? Does that mean their victims deserved it, too?
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I would love to be charged with mayhem, but unfortunately, I've never been able to cause enough trouble. Gotta work on that. I also want my death certificate to read "death by misadventure".
The amount of sympathetic comments here are disturbing. You do realize she mutilated two innocent people on suspicion, don't do?
I imagine in 1907, doctors couldn't sew it back on.... If he treated her badly enough that she would do that, karma was a bitch!!! He probably had to pee like a woman for the rest of his life!!!
Her story: 'Bertha insisted that her husband Frank, a firefighter, had visited a place of prostitution'. His story: 'He claimed that she was amorous and had invited him to her bed before the attack'. 'After her capture, Bertha Boronda admitted her crime and expressed no regret' [you don't say!]. 'After the incident Bertha and Frank Boronda broke off their marriage' [no, really?]. She was sentenced to 5 years and served 2. She later remarried [!!]. Died aged 72. [Source: wikipedia]
There is nothing new, under the sun. Lorena was not the first, and she probably won't be the last.
In her mind, she knows, he's f***ed up forever while she, will only serve for 5 years and the joyride will continue again.
It's well documented Lorena was acting in self defense from another rape and torture at the hands of her husband so no it does not matter that he suffered for a few hours. She suffered years of beatings rapes being held prisoner financial abuse and torture. He also tied another women to a bed for 3 days and beat and raped her repeatedly no sympathy for that pos
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Combines the pleasure of horseriding with the anxiety of being accidentally blinded by your mount
well, that's basically only time of home i could afford, so they weren't that wrong
I thought he said redcoats; though regulars make more sense, red was a popular color for coats
A tendency to decapitate the pilot. How many people had to die before they concluded it was a design/idea fault and not just bad luck on the part of the pilot?
Fun fact: when Titanic sank, the White Star Company refused to pay officers and crew members for services provided during the sinking. And the family of one of the band members who died actually was charged for the loss of his uniform.
In France they call it the "iron harvest". About 900 tons of unexploded ordnance is recovered every year. If you drive around the battlefields it is perfectly common to see a handful of old hand grenades or mortar rounds sitting on the verge at a farmers' gate, waiting for the bomb disposal people to come on their latest run to pick them up.
Surely a while after him the name "sandwich" stuck but people have been putting stuff between slices of bread (or variations of bread) for thousands of years.
Just another example how over time cultures change. Today not wearing pants within the city limits is deemed barbarian.
Wow! That's really cool! I'm going to show this to my band teacher lol
It was a photoshoot to promote the upcoming international tour. They're dressed as typical London city gents. This was basically the 'uniform' worn by city finance workers long after the rest of society swapped wearing morning dress with modern lounge suits. Remarkably, city workers were still wearing this outfit into the 1980s. Just occasionally you see some older gents still wearing it when they go up to their clubs. I've seen one or two in the last few years!
The Antikythera mechanism. It was apparently designed to determine the times for the Olympics.
Endeavour was one of the rejected choices for the original starship name
He was an interesting character, however he seems genuinely kind.
I'm willing to wager Robert started the whole Yeti/Bigfoot/Sasquatch craze.
Wait, what? Where? I live my whole life in The Netherlands, first time I have heard of this.
The origin of the name Case Western Reserve university in Ohio, originally in Connecticut's territory
I mean, my heart goes to him for losing his leg but, surely, this is weird haha
That tweet ain't quite right. The HMS Resolute was abandoned while searching for the Franklin Expedition. A US whaling vessel found the Resolute wreck and it was repaired and returned by the US. The desk was made out of the timbers of the Resolute as a thanks for the kind gesture.
Johnson always played a recurring joke, in which he invited someone for a ride and then drove into the water. The guest usually freaked out, because he did not know it the car was amphibious.
Let's not forget the Great Molasses Flood in Boston in 1919. A molasses tank ruptured (it was overfilled if memory serves) and the resulting flood of molasses damaged buildings, sucked people under and coated everything in a sticky mess. 21 people died, many of them drowning in the thick molasses.
Wich is an old english word for salt and there are lots of places ending with wich in England
Let's not forget the Great Molasses Flood in Boston in 1919. A molasses tank ruptured (it was overfilled if memory serves) and the resulting flood of molasses damaged buildings, sucked people under and coated everything in a sticky mess. 21 people died, many of them drowning in the thick molasses.
Wich is an old english word for salt and there are lots of places ending with wich in England
