‘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
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.
Given the drug taking even back then I think this is probably the healthier option.
Initially the first telephone operators were young lads who were utterly useless. They would fight each other, refuse to connect anyone, swear at the callers, throw away messages and drink alcohol!! Then they got young single women in.
Apparently it works so well because they used volcanic ash in their concrete. I can't find the source anymore, though...
Only to be continually kept captive by humans for their pleasure which is shameful
Owens and Luz Long kept in touch after, but Long's last letter asked Jesse after the war to contact his son and let him know about his father and how things could be. Long died in 1943 and Owens and Karl Long can be seen in the documentary Jesse Owens Returns To Berlin. Naoto Tajima is the other athlete who took home gold and bronze at those Olympics
Often beer was produced because the water was so undrinkable. Oh and they liked to party.
My mother actually had one of these. It was heavy as hell but actually quite fun to use.
There are often inscriptions under roman dog mosaics that read 'cave canem' the oldest known 'beware of the dog' signs.
I can't read the word shrubbery without thinking of Monty Python
Ines came to Portugal as part of the entourage of Prince Peter’s wife. He had an affair with her and they had children together. When his wife died, the King forbid Peter and Ines from marrying. He banished Ines and eventually ordered her assassination. Peter was devastated, he avenged her by ripping out the hearts of her killers. When he became king he had Ines recognised as Queen and legitimised their children, saying that they had married in secret. There is a story that he had her exhumed and dressed in royal regalia for their coronation, having all at court pay homage to her.
it is a dice tower.... to avoid cheating. You can see "VTERE" an the side, I guess on the other panel is written "FELIX", which means "Use it with luck"
Yep I get that but the flippant caption just annoyed me...just I find the further we get from WW2 the more myths take hold particularly from the American side. My dad was a Londoner who saw his city burn around him, signed up at 18 and went through fkn hell from there on. There was no heroism, no downtime , in his own words it was just killing,non stop till the end. Even when it was over he signed up for occupation duty in Berlin because he couldn't face going home.... In fact that damaged him more than combat, the hypocrisy and bs of the post war period. I may have overreacted but , not wanting to sound like an old fart, people these days are immune to the concept of total war. Ukraine is a shock to most people but not to me. I'm the first member of my father's family not to have to fight in a war. My dad in WW2, his father fought at the somme in WW1 and his father fought in the russian army, only to die as an old man in the anti Jewish pogroms in eastern Ukraine in 1906. War is hell and as bad as it is now, we can't ever trivialize it, ever.
In rural Switzerland, dogs were used to pull carts delivering milk cans to the local dairy as late as the 1960es.
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2021/08/moving-courthouse-by-rail.html
Beautiful image. The photographer would have been chuffed how this came out too
From what I can tell (using Greek names for the gods here) It is King Posiden, with his wife Amphitrite, and most likely infant son Tritan. They may be riding Hippocampi, but I'm not sure.
I wish i could have a strong immune system like that kid When i was standing fully clothed in a rain it would catch me flu, leave alone riding snake doplhin hybrid in a sea while naked
There is something sexy as heck about this painting! I must have it!!!
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)
