A New Jersey Forest Fire Service firewarden can summon any person aged 18 to 50 to assist in putting out wildfires—and it’s against the law to refuse.
The Iliad and the Odyssey are just two parts out of an eight-part…
The Iliad and the Odyssey are just two parts out of an eight-part epic, but the other six parts have been almost entirely lost to history.
In 1994 a 74 year old man unable to get a driver’s license drove…
In 1994 a 74 year old man unable to get a driver’s license drove 240 miles on a 1966 John Deere lawnmower to visit his brother who recently had a stroke. At a top speed of 5 mph, the journey took 6 weeks.
The man who first artificially cloned a fish was later forced…
The man who first artificially cloned a fish was later forced to give up his research and become a janitor by the Chinese government during the Cultural Revolution.
A man who wanted to create a whites-only town in North Dakota…
A man who wanted to create a whites-only town in North Dakota was found to be of African descent.
The Mosquito alarm was used to repel young people by emitting…
The Mosquito alarm was used to repel young people by emitting a high frequency only audible to youngsters. But teenagers set it as a ringtone to avoid being heard by teachers.
There was a Doctor in Detroit who falsely diagnosed his patients…
There was a Doctor in Detroit who falsely diagnosed his patients with cancer so he can profit off their chemotherapy to fuel his opulent lifestyle.
Electricity was introduced to Ethiopia in 1896 after Emperor…
Electricity was introduced to Ethiopia in 1896 after Emperor Menelik II ordered two newly invented electric chairs as a form of humane capital punishment and realized they were useless in his country without electricity.
In the U.S., there are 1.5 times more Google searches…
In the U.S., there are 1.5 times more Google searches for “heaven” than “hell.”
In 1950 ‘One of the largest human experiments in history’ was conducted…
In 1950 ‘One of the largest human experiments in history’ was conducted on unsuspecting residents of San Francisco by the US military in a germ-warfare simulation and Nuremberg Code violation that utilized the Bay Area’s iconic fog to help spread two kinds of bacteria over the city.