If you’re having a scan done on your brain, you might already be in a scary situation, but it doesn’t get much scarier than the scan showing a massive hole in your grey matter. “Hydrocephalus is a condition in which cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) builds up within and/or around the brain, […]
Rather paradoxically, this coffin was designed to save your life. So why aren’t they popular anymore? “A safety coffin or security coffin is a coffin fitted with a mechanism to prevent premature burial or allow the occupant to signal that they have been buried alive. A large number of designs […]
Back when men were rarely bareheaded, making sure you had not just a hat, but the *right* hat could be of crucial importance. “The Straw Hat Riot of 1922 was a riot that occurred in New York City at the end of summer as a result of unwritten rules in […]
For hundreds of years, animals were seen as valid defendants in court trials, leading to some hilarious documented cases. “In legal history, an animal trial is a trial of a non-human animal. These trials were conducted in both secular and ecclesiastic courts. Records of such trials show that they took […]
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‘Tales From the Bottle’ goes back to the days of the Holy Roman Empire to take a look at some of the Catholic Church’s shenanigans. “The Cadaver Synod (also called the Cadaver Trial; Latin: Synodus Horrenda) is the name commonly given to the posthumous ecclesiastical trial of Pope Formosus, held […]
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All this little monkey was missing was corduroy britches. “Jack was the pet and assistant of double leg amputee signalman James Wide, who worked for the Cape Town–Port Elizabeth Railway service. James “Jumper” Wide had been known for jumping between railcars until an accident where he fell and lost both […]
If you’ve ever played GTA you’ll know that getting a tank is pretty much the ultimate thing you can do. Well it turns out, getting one in real life plays out pretty similarly… “Shawn Timothy Nelson (August 21, 1959 – May 17, 1995) was an American plumber and U.S. Army […]
William Utermohlen, an artist who suffered with Alzheimer’s, has provided the world with perhaps its clearest visual representation of the effects of the disease – one that is both fascinating and chilling. “William Utermohlen was born in south Philadelphia in 1933. He studied art at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine […]
