This post is an awesome collection of historical misconceptions that are really fun facts! This is actually a longer version of the The Tiffany Problem…

This is an interesting post about obsolete hand gestures. It starts with the fact that kids don’t do the thumb-and-pinky-out gesture for “phone” anymore. But…

People often get confused about the actual dates for historical eras so marzipanandminutiae set the record straight! Here’s a list of periods from the 1600s…

Here is the Wikipedia page for the old timey trans man Harry Allen. And he sure did earn it earned entirely due to him doing…

Wow. The phrase “reality distortion field” is a term first used by Bud Tribble at Apple Computer in 1981. He coined the term to describe…

LOL! This is an amusing post about how every time a racist gets mad when talking about the Civil War you should just make up…

Iulian Barbulescu created this incredible “The Secret History of Computers” AI art using Midjourney! If you are not familiar with it, Midjourney is an artificial…

Today I learned about Triboulet the jester! Nicolas Ferrial (1479–1536), also known as Le Févrial or Triboulet, was a jester for kings Louis XII and Francis I of France. Here’s some amusing stories about him, history…

LOL! This post starts with people realizing Transylvania is a real place, but ends up explaining why the state in USA is named Pennsylvania. It’s another…

This is an insane piece of history about a horrible cargo ship fail. It’s the story of the SS Grandcamp causing the Texas City Disaster….