‘Weird History’ Is An Account That Shares Interesting, Odd, And Funny Things That Happened And Here’s 50 Of Their Best Posts (New Pics)
Probably one of the best things about education in the digital age is just how accessible it is. One click away and you get some of the best bits of knowledge you otherwise would have gone all the way to the library for, hoping to find what you were looking for. The problem with that is that you always have to know what you’re interested in in the first place.
Unlike the Weird History Twitter page that offers some of the most entertaining facts from all kinds of areas: it's pure entertainment in its educational form. Created by Andrew Rader more than a decade ago, in September 2011, Weird History has gained a following of 182.3K and counting adoring fans who never miss a new fact, bit of trivia, and piece of history to add to their memory.
Below the newest Weird History batch awaits you, so upvote your favorite posts! And after you’re done, be sure to check out Bored Panda’s previous features from the page here and here.
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The MIT scientist Andrew, the founder and curator of Weird History, is a real Renaissance man. Originally from Ottawa in Canada, he is a SpaceX Mission Manager, book author, game designer, and podcast host currently living in Los Angeles in California. Since Andrew launched the Weird History page on Twitter more than a decade ago in 2011, he has amassed 182.3K followers and counting! Simultaneously, Andrew’s personal Twitter account which he created in 2013, 2 years after the Weird History page, has an audience of 897.7k followers.
In 2013, he won the Discovery Channel’s competitive television series Canada’s Greatest Know-It-All. He's the author of Beyond the Known, a history of exploration from the beginning of humanity to our spacefaring future, and of three books in the Epic Space Adventure series (Epic Space Adventure, Mars Rover Rescue, Europa Excursion) and the children's book Rocket Science.
According to Andrew, we tend to think of exploration as escape, but it’s actually about forging connections. “On a personal level, we travel to connect with our roots, connect with nature, connect with fellow travelers, or connect with new lands and people. At the level of civilizations, connections precipitated the circulation of people, ideas, technologies, and resources,” he wrote in his blog.
Andrew argues that more connections meant more people working collaboratively to solve problems, like the historical version of the internet. “Most technologies are not invented from scratch, but modified from ideas spread by others. Writing has only been invented on our planet very few times—possibly only twice—but spread to evolve into almost four thousand written languages. As Isaac Newton famously expressed, progress begins with ‘standing on the shoulders of giants’, where one discovery forms the foundation upon which the next is based.” Therefore Andrew believes that the more ideas exchanged, the more shoulders there are to stand on, and the more people standing on top of them.
They sure don't make em' like that anymore. Must be a Timex. (For you youngn's in the back, Timex is a brand of watch. The slogan used to be "It takes a lickin and keeps on tickin. *Note Lickin' used to be slang for a beating.* )
I'd wear that today! It seems a love of cats persists through the ages.
This is true, he was pretty cool, but this post is a bit misleading. He was not the last royal ruler of independent Hawaii. Their only queen was their last ruler & she deserves credit as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liliʻuokalani
A few years ago I finally walked half way across. Before that, bipolar gave me an absolute fear of knowing I would throw myself off. I walked with one of my sisters, and one of my brothers. Paul has cancer and could only make it halfway, before he got extremely tired. He asked would I mind if we could go back to the car. I said I made it farther than I ever imagined. Eventually I will walk the full length. 1.7 miles long.
I read once that one of the people overseeing construction wanted to put suicide nets under the bridge. Executives said it’d be a waste of money. Saved 8 lives. I just wish they’d kept them to modern day.
A bridge in my city got covered (or surrounded, can't desceibe exactly) by flexiglass because of this. It was the spot for suicidal people. That and a 20 story building with no security in one particular balcony around the 17th floor.
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Yeah. The one time I went across it, was a very foggy day. In a weird way, as if the fog was coming up from the water so that the only thing visible was the bridge and the cars on it. It was also windy, so the damn thing swayed the entire time. I about lost my sh**t. Which is weird because I have always loved rollercoasters and crazy rides. The faster and crazier the better. And yet. Don't even get me started on the ride on the BART. For those not familiar, it's a public transportation rail system in the bay area. It travels UNDER the bay and under or through an island. I'd need copious amounts of high octane alcohol to do that again. I am not claustrophobic. And yet.
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My late in-laws and both their families were from SF. Bet they remembered this!
In the 1930s some developer worked on the estimate of one death per million dollars spent due to the lack of safety equipment. I think that was around half a dozen people for a big project back then.
Very Brave, although I suppose the wire maybe quite wide ??
Terrifies me just looking at the photo! Like the famous pic of all the construction workers eating their lunch, sitting on a girder, while building the Empire State building.
Moments later he was killed in a fall when he ran because he saw a spider behind him.
At first I was like dangggg then I realized it’s just water underneath so it’s not as scary. But still terrifieing
From that height the water will feel like concrete. 👏
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Here's the thing, and I may get down voted to the point of getting kicked off, but so be it. These women were bada$$. They were called a Ferry Squadron because they flew the planes to the places necessary for us to establish air superiority. And they get comments about their looks.
This is not only a well, but a place to hangout away from the brutal heat as the lower you get the more the temp drops. Also used as irrigation ponds/tanks. Called a stepwell, this one looks like it might be Chand Baori.
One of his ancestors, Peter, absolutely trashed this mansion in England where he lived. He was fascinated by wheelbarrows and would use them to burst through the hedges. It's sounds crazy, but look it up.
I read in horrible histories he grew it because a young girl wrote to him that he would good with a beard or something??
I just watched Capone on Amazon Prime Video .... not the worst movie I've seen. Pretty interesting. It shows you his decline mentally in the last year of his life. Pretty sad. But I also have an affinity for old school gangsters. Back when respect was a thing. Yea they did bad s**t but never hurt an innocent. Not the TRUE mobsters anyway. Something all these idiot gang bangers these days could learn from. Plus my Great grandparents were one of the last civilians to see him alive. He came to their restaraunt and cleared out the place so he could have dinner and my GGrandma cooked for him and my Ggrandpa played poker with him... he won (my ggrandpa) Capone told him usually I don't lose. They said he was a pretty "neat guy" He got arrested a very short time later (no they didn't turn him in)
Grades are not a measure of intelligence or how well you'll do in life.
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I read some really interesting history facts today if anyone's interested to learn them! One of them was that nipple piercings were popular among all genders in the late 1700s or 1800s (I don't fully remember the fact but I have it saved)
I read some really interesting history facts today if anyone's interested to learn them! One of them was that nipple piercings were popular among all genders in the late 1700s or 1800s (I don't fully remember the fact but I have it saved)
