# weird
Absurd Medical History Moments that Prove People Have Always been this Dumb
Anti-vaccination movements are not new. In the 1700s, in the midst of a smallpox epidemic, Bostonians rampaged against those who sought to inoculate the public, assaulted them in the streets, and threw…
The Weirdest Ways Children Were Treated in History
Children usually bring out people’s protective instincts, triggering a natural desire to treat them kindly. Throughout history, however, many unfortunate…
The Scheme to Hook Up a King With the Wasp Woman and Other Wild Plans
History has no shortage of eyebrow-raising schemes, whether by those on the wrong side of the law, or by lawful…
History’s Most Lunatic Events and People
Throughout history, many a lunatic has risen to a position of power, from which he played an outsized role in…
The Fart That Killed 10,000 People, and Other Weird Moments From History
During the current pandemic, people are probably more likely to fart in order to hide a cough when in public,…
Atypical Deaths of these Historical Figures
Death comes to all, the great and the small. For most, it comes in prosaic and unremarkable ways, meeting death…
Historic Ideas That Aged Like Complete Garbage
Throughout history, many an idea seemed brilliant when first introduced, but turned out to be not so bright in hindsight.…
Satanic Tomatoes and Other Weird Details Not Taught in History Class
Weird stuff permeates history, but by necessity, most of the weird stuff is not taught in school. Because of space…
History’s Out of the Ordinary Radicals
In 1946, Brazil’s government prohibited the country’s newspapers from mentioning Japan’s defeat in the recently concluded Second World War. The…
People Tried Unworkable Methods to Ward off Illness Outbreaks in History
For much of history, medical knowledge about what caused illness and how to cure it was quite limited. People –…