The movie that traumatised generations of Irish people. But why? “An exhausted business woman named Catherine is sitting on a train reading a romantic novel. It is established that this is the only time in the day where she has time for herself, as she is otherwise caring for her […]
This decades old picture remains intensely creepy but the reality was much worse than even the grim image suggests. “A boiler explosion is a catastrophic failure of a boiler. There are two types of boiler explosions. One type is a failure of the pressure parts of the steam and water […]
A boisterous game commentated by a hilarious, hungover legend of a man. “Gaelic football (Irish: Peil Ghaelach; short name Peil), commonly known as simply Gaelic, GAA or football is an Irish team sport. It is played between two teams of 15 players on a rectangular grass pitch. The objective of […]
It’s the siege you’ve probably never heard of; find out why Rainbow Farm found itself under attack by the law, and why it wouldn’t happen today. “Rainbow Farm was a pro-marijuana campground in Newberg Township, Cass County, Michigan, United States, that was involved in a fatal police standoff on September […]
One of the world’s foremost currencies has a stickman on the back – but why? “The euro (symbol: €; code: EUR) is the official currency of 19 out of the 27 member states of the European Union (EU). This group of states is known as the eurozone or, officially, the […]
Artificial intelligence seems to think hell is as scary as it’s made out to be. “Stable Diffusion is a machine learning, text-to-image model to generate digital images from natural language descriptions. The underlying approach was developed at LMU Munich and then extended by a collaboration of StabilityAI, LMU, and Runway […]
There’s no aircraft in the world quite like this one – because it’s too dangerous. “The Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet is a rocket-powered interceptor aircraft primarily designed and produced by the German aircraft manufacturer Messerschmitt. It is the only operational rocket-powered fighter aircraft in history as well as the first […]
You’ve seen the footage – but did you notice this strange figure? The FBI certainly did. “The “umbrella man”, is a figure who appears in several films and photographs of the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy. He was one of the closest bystanders to the president when […]
You’ve probably seen lots of prehistoric cave paintings – but have ever seen a human face depicted in them? “In archaeology, cave paintings are a type of parietal art (which category also includes petroglyphs, or engravings), found on the wall or ceilings of caves. The term usually implies prehistoric origin. […]
Poland’s first encyclopedia is a pretty terrible encyclopedia, but it is funny! “Nowe Ateny (New Athens) is the abbreviated title of the first Polish-language encyclopedia, authored by the 18th-century Polish priest Benedykt Joachim Chmielowski. The first edition was published in 1745–1746 in Lwów (Lviv); the second edition was updated and […]
