Though being gay in the 40s was hard, being gay in the military was easier, and pretty common. Especially for lesbians. That’s not to say…

This is an interesting history post inspired by this scene in Mulan between Shan Yu, Li Shang, and Mulan. Apparently women among the Huns had…

So I now agree that modern medieval fantasy stories don’t have enough weasel-based necromancy. This post explains why. And for more weird historical weasel facts,…

This is a wonderful history post about how people have always loved fictional characters. “Fandom” is not really a new thing. There’s a lot of…

This is an interesting post about the long history of humans toasting bread. As electricity was invented, people just went “you can make toast with…

This is a very interesting language history post about dead metaphors and malapropisms. A malaprop is the mistaken use of a word in place of a similar-sounding…

Like we first learned in the Beer Was Invented and Brewed by Women post, beer was invented and brewed by women for most of human history,…

Whenever we post about The Rocky Horror Picture Show we get a few comments similar to this one, claiming that it is transmisogynistic and should…

This is a great list of twenty mind blowing facts from the @blowingfact Instagram page. They post daily mind blowing and educational content. This collection…

Wow, again history is wild. Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr., a man of extraordinary ingenuity and audacity, was a master of disguise and a consummate impostor…