# Lord Byron
Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Spanking Fetish, and Other Famous People’s Unexpected Behavior
Many famous and well known people have unexpected – and sometimes downright weird – traits that are not so well known, and are usually hidden. Often, for a good reason. Take the…
These Respected Figures Were Also Some of the Weirdest People in History
Weird people are greatly overrepresented in the ranks of the creative types who shaped and greatly influenced the world we…
Some of the Greatest Men in History Had Dark and Scandalous Secrets
Charles Dickens was not just a great writer, but a generally good guy. He was a social critic who advocated…
History’s Juiciest and Intriguing Scandals
Nowadays, it is hard to pick up a newspaper or turn on the news without coming across scandal after scandal.…
The Old World’s Medieval Untouchables and Other Random Historical Facts
History has no shortage of the weird, the bizarre, and the little known. Did you know, for example, that medieval…
20 Outlandish Historical Facts That Actually Exist
It is almost a certainty that a time will come when our distant descendants will look back at our era…
Wild Kinks and Perversions of 20 Influential Historical Figures
Many people have varying grades of odd wants and desires, that range from minor perversions, to grave criminal conduct that…
Rumor Has It That Mary Shelley Kept her Dead Husband’s Heart in her Desk for 30 years
A year after her death, Mary Shelley’s son, Sir Percy Shelley, finally opened his mother’s writing desk. The desk had…
16 Amazing Facts in the Life of Frankenstein Author Mary Shelley
Mary Shelley was born on August 30, 1797, the daughter of radical authors William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft. Today, Mary…
Scandal, Drugs, and Sonnets: 12 Surprising Details About the Lives of the English Romantic Poets
It would not be too lazy an observation to make that the Romantic Poets of the late-18th and early-19th century…