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.
Knowing what we know about King Tut's conditions, it is possible he only had 2 toes on each foot. /S
Why would they have worn socks? It's the Middle East, the temperature is warm, that's why they are wearing sandals, right? So wearing socks doesn't make any sense? I just don't get it.
Load More Replies...Just so misinformation isn't spread: this isn't Tutankhamun's socks. These are a pair of socks found in Egypt, dated to Roman period Egypt, like way more recently than he lived. There were no socks found in Tutankhamun's tomb but it's possible he might have wore a pair. There's just no evidence for that. I think Weird History just wanted to make a fun, viral tweet. Just don't believe everything you read 🧐
Very long feet and two toes... I know he had a lot of genetic deformities from inbreeding but someone has to say the other alternative..... Aliens man
He was quite disabled, judging from the very post mortem.
Load More Replies...It's so the strap in the sandals can fit inbetween. Similar to tabi socks in traditional Japanese culture.
Load More Replies...Last picture of those sandals had an individual gold cover for each toe!
lmao....someone wearing socks with sandals is known as a 'Trainee Pedo'.
Toe sox, I wonder who made those first. Japan or Egypt or are they related?
I read that he had more than one physical deformity. Those feet must have been very painful!
More the Czarina than the Czar. She was German and the people were suspicious of her and Rasputin who she allowed to interfere with matters of court. The Czar was also a weak ruler.
Meant as a comment regarding the Czar not King Tutankhamun and his socks.
Load More Replies...And nearly 70 years later he's still waiting for her to step down.
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