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…

So the now the fastest moving manmade object is actually the Parker Solar Probe. It is a NASA spacecraft launched in August 2018 designed to…

Today I learned that famous Russian composer Tchaikovsky had a wealthy patron who never wanted to meet him. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, born on May 7,…

Gareth Harney tweeted this epic stranger than fiction Roman ring mystery thread. This enigmatic Roman gold ring was found in a ploughed field near Silchester…

This is a neat post about how future stories about our time would be filled with anachronisms, especially the fact that everyone is always wearing…

Wickfield illustrated this awesome fan art series of animated characters if they were historically accurate! Here’s what she had to say about it: “As a…