Italy is giving away more than 100 historic buildings – including castles, houses, and towers – in a bid to boost ‘slow tourism’ and tempt visitors away from the overcrowded city centers. To get your hands on the sites, you need to have a clear plan of how they’d be transformed into a tourist facility. […]
Mitsuo Fuchida, the captain that lead…
Mitsuo Fuchida, the captain that lead the attack on Pearl Harbor, later became a Christian and settled in the US permanently. 00
In 1989, a bottle from Thomas Jefferson’s collection…
In 1989, a bottle from Thomas Jefferson’s collection, was valued at an astronomical $500,000 by its owner, William Sokolin. When Sokolin took the wine with him to a Margaux dinner at the Four Season Hotel, a waiter knocked the bottle over, breaking it. Insurers paid out $225,000. 00
When Alex Tizon was a small child in the 60s, he moved…
When Alex Tizon was a small child in the 60s, he moved with his family from the Philippines to the US along with the family’s domestic servant, Lola. It was not until Tizon was nearly a teenager that he realized that Lola was not employed as a servant by his parents… she was a slave. […]
There’s a service that routes telemarketing…
There’s a service that routes telemarketing calls to a bot that wastes as much time as possible engaging in conversation. 00
The creator of mothers day spent the…
The creator of mothers day spent the rest of her life trying to end it’s celebration and died without children in 1948. 00
While researching for the film Castaway, screenwriter…
While researching for the film Cast Away, screenwriter William Broyles Jr. chose to strand himself for one week on an isolated beach in the Gulf of California to force himself to search for water and food and obtain his own shelter. 00
An Australian publisher once had to reprint…
An Australian publisher once had to reprint 7,000 copies of a recipe book because a typo asked for “freshly ground black people” instead of black pepper. 00
In 2009, David Booth, a park ranger in Scotland…
In 2009, David Booth, a park ranger in Scotland, packed up his metal detector, drove to a field, and scored big. His first sweep yielded 4 gold neck bands, from the first century B.C.—the most important hoard of Iron Age gold found in Scotland to date. 00
In 1889 a lion escaped from a traveling show…
In 1889 a lion escaped from a traveling show in Birmingham and ran into the sewers. When an angry mob formed, Frank Bostock, the owner secretly snuck another lion out the back. He then returned with the lion clearly visible and was hailed a hero. The escaped lion was still in the sewers. 00