Watch a Demonstration of Proper Opossum Massage Techniques
Georgina Spelvin is also known as ME Pearl, a psychic and lover of "lowly life forms." In her series of Proper Opossum Care videos, she extolls the wonders of these nocturnal, trash-eating creatures...
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How Did The Hugest Whales End Up With Baleen Instead Of Teeth?
In the middle of On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin took a moment to note down one of the natural mysteries that dogged him most. "The Greenland whale is one of the most wonderful animals in the...
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Found: Ancient Elephant Fossils Hidden Beneath L.A.'s New Subway
Perhaps it was inevitable that as Los Angeles expanded its vestigial subway system into a public transit option worthy of a major city fossils would turn up. Los Angeles was built in a place pockmarked...
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Hand Fan Museum in Healdsburg, California
The first and only Hand Fan Museum in downtown Healdsburg, California revels in the ladylike elegance of fans.In collecting hand fans, the museum assembles a history of femininity throughout the ages....
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This Obscure Bangkok Market is Home to a Million-Dollar Collection of...
Thailand’s labyrinthine Chatuchak Weekend Market, which spans 27 acres in downtown Bangkok, is one of the largest open-air markets in the world. The maze-like array of stalls and shops is an immersive...
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The 1925 Match That Ensured Pro Wrestling's Future Would Be Fixed
It was 1925, and pro wrestling was big business. A throng of fans had packed themselves into a Kansas City convention hall, expecting to see champion Ed “Strangler” Lewis easily defeat Wayne “Big”...
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Tent Pole Monument to Circus Dead in Wahpeton, North Dakota
On June 10, 1897, the Ringling Brothers Circus came to town. A visit from the circus to the tiny town of Wahpeton, North Dakota was a huge event. That same day a major storm was brewing, but despite...
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Buzz Aldrin Is Being Evacuated From the South Pole
Early this morning, a LC-130 cargo plane, piloted by an Air National Guard pilot, touched down at the Amundsen-Scott Station in the South Pole for an emergency medical evacuation. But they weren't...
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What Happened To This Cult Leader's Lost Treasure?
The small town of Nanaimo, British Columbia, sits quietly on the edge of Vancouver Island, just a short ferry ride from the mainland. A trip to the local museum mostly shows off fun local events, like...
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Phelan Building in San Francisco, California
Serving as the boundary between two street grids that run diagonal to one another, the major commercial thoroughfare of Market Street lends itself naturally to flatiron buildings. And up until the end...
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Zweetkamertje (Sweat Room) in Leiden, Netherlands
This small room in the oldest building constructed for the University of Leiden would look fairly unassuming, if it weren't for the fact that it's walls are covered top-to-bottom with doctorate...
View ArticleWatch How to Properly Sneeze into a Handkerchief in 1940s England
It’s considerate to cover your mouth and nose when you feel a sneeze coming along, especially with the cold and flu season lurking around the corner. And that's been the case since at least 1945, when...
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Chap Records Were Basically Yelp for 1900s Eligible Bachelorettes
After a second date in 1908 with a suitor named Ray Smith, Carol Pardee, the privileged granddaughter of Oakland mayor Enoch Pardee, took out her notebook and, with careless spelling, wrote her opinion...
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Piece of the Berlin Wall at Cafe Turko in Seattle, Washington
Just up the street from the J.P. Patches statue and right around the corner from the Fremont Troll is a quaint Turkish cafe featuring a nondescript little chunk of concrete that was once a piece of the...
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Secret Compartment in Leonardo da Vinci Statue in Fiumicino, Italy
Unveiled on August 19th 1960, the giant statue of Leonardo da Vinci at Rome's Fiumicino-Leonardo da Vinci Airport has greeted visitors ever since. Millions and millions of people have passed it over...
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Bibliomania, the Dark Desire For Books That Infected Europe in the 1800s
Dr. Alois Pichler was almost always surrounded by books. In 1869, Pichler, originally from Bavaria, became the so-called “extraordinary librarian” of the Imperial Public Library in St. Petersburg,...
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The Haunting Street Art Adorning Havana’s Oldest Buildings
In Havana, Cuba, street art is relatively rare. The city is full of derelict, sometimes abandoned buildings that in other cities might have been used as canvases for graffiti, but tags or murals are...
View ArticleFound: A Turtle That’s Basically a Dinosaur, Stuck in a Drain Pipe
A photo posted by The Wildlife Center Of Texas (@wildlifecenteroftexas) on Nov 30, 2016 at 1:54pm PSTAlligator snapping turtles might be the most mesmerizing and simultaneously ugly creature on this...
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Ascending One of the World's Oldest, Tallest Trees for Science and the Views
By the time John Muir and his trusty mule Brownie splashed across the Marble Fork of the Kaweah River in the fall of 1875, the Scottish-born naturalist had already seen his fair share of California...
View ArticleSee One Woman's Amazing Project to Save a Vanishing Native American Language
Marie's Dictionary from Go Project Films on Vimeo.As a direct result of colonization, many indigenous languages throughout the Americas have disappeared or are in danger of doing so. In the US alone,...
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