ADVERTISEMENT

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.

More info: Twitter (Weird History) | Twitter (Andrew) | Instagram | Facebook | YouTube | Andrew-Rader.com

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.

ADVERTISEMENT
ADVERTISEMENT

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.

#10

Weird History

weird_hist Report

Add photo comments
POST
carolyngerbrands avatar
Caro Caro
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was once an operator for a IBM mainframe in 1988, Those things were huge even then.

View More Replies...
View more commentsArrow down menu
#11

Weird History

aniemyer Report

Add photo comments
POST
ambroise-lescop-2 avatar
Shelp
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And also: Denmark was a neutral country minding its own business, and the Brits attacked it anyways, shelling Copenhagen and sunking all its ships "for safety reasons". Napoleon is not the only bad guy from that time.

View More Replies...
View more commentsArrow down menu
#12

Weird History

weird_hist Report

Add photo comments
POST
gangsterghost avatar
Nathaniel
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Remember the old days of the internet? When you had to put your memes in an envelope? And people were employed to physically deliver your e-mails?

View More Replies...
View more commentsArrow down menu
#13

Weird History

weird_hist Report

Add photo comments
POST
lyuboiv avatar
Vorknkx
Community Member
1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Back in the days when losing means you lost, not "go start an insurrection."

View More Replies...
View more commentsArrow down menu
ADVERTISEMENT

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.

#16

Weird History

weird_hist Report

Add photo comments
POST
heathervance avatar
AzKhaleesi
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.* )

View More Replies...
View more commentsArrow down menu
#19

Weird History

weird_hist Report

Add photo comments
POST
babyjenks13 avatar
Baby Jenks
Community Member
1 year ago

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

View More Replies...
View more commentsArrow down menu
ADVERTISEMENT
#23

Weird History

weird_hist Report

Add photo comments
POST
oktopus1973 avatar
oktopus
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

FYI Mimi Reinhard, who typed up the list, passed away only a couple of days ago. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mimi-reinhard-dies-schindlers-list-typist-dead-age-107/

View More Replies...
View more commentsArrow down menu
ADVERTISEMENT
See Also on Bored Panda
#31

Weird History

weird_hist Report

Add photo comments
POST
maylin_martinsen avatar
May
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Even the bottom middle ones? Why does one of them look like a d**k?

View More Replies...
View more commentsArrow down menu
#34

Weird History

weird_hist Report

Add photo comments
POST
camlynn1234 avatar
Miss Frankfurter
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

View More Replies...
View more commentsArrow down menu
#35

Weird History

weird_hist Report

Add photo comments
POST
carolyngerbrands avatar
Caro Caro
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We should do that today with billionaires not paying their taxes. I would watch ...

View More Replies...
View more commentsArrow down menu
#39

Weird History

weird_hist Report

Add photo comments
POST
lpdragonslayer avatar
BasedWang12
Community Member
1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

View more commentsArrow down menu
ADVERTISEMENT
See Also on Bored Panda
#41

Weird History

weird_hist Report

Add photo comments
POST
marmotarchivist avatar
MarmotArchivist
Community Member
1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

View More Replies...
View more commentsArrow down menu
#42

Weird History

weird_hist Report

Add photo comments
POST
valkyrie-of-shadows avatar
Hayley Futter
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I read in horrible histories he grew it because a young girl wrote to him that he would good with a beard or something??

View More Replies...
View more commentsArrow down menu
#45

Weird History

weird_hist Report

Add photo comments
POST
randomcitizen avatar
XenoMurph
Community Member
1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's worth going to have a look at the spire. Popular Russian tourist spot. Apparently...

View More Replies...
View more commentsArrow down menu
#46

Weird History

weird_hist Report

Add photo comments
POST
heathervance avatar
AzKhaleesi
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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)

View More Replies...
View more commentsArrow down menu
#48

Weird History

weird_hist Report

See Also on Bored Panda
#50

Weird History

weird_hist Report

Note: this post originally had 130 images. It’s been shortened to the top 50 images based on user votes.