Making and Tasting Salt from Human Sweat
The salt did not turn out white.
Vintage & Historical
The Charlatan Count Who Sold the Eiffel Tower
The buyer was too ashamed to contact police.
Vintage & Historical
Locals Have Been Tending to the Uffington White Horse for 3,000 Years!
Some researchers think it might not even be a horse!
Science & Technology
Mysterious and Unexplained "Hums" Are Popping Up Around the World
A Ph.D. thesis tried translating it into song.
People
Chess Boxing Will Test Your Body and Brain
The idea came from a French comic book.
Vintage & Historical
JFK Kept a Coconut on His Desk
Native islanders risked their lives to deliver the coconut.
These Strange Treats Will Make You Hate Ice Cream
What ice cream uses beaver urine?
Vintage & Historical
Guallame Duchenne: The Smile Doctor's Experiments
He believed the human expression was a window into the soul.
Science & Technology
New Fossils Are Oldest Homo Sapiens Ever Found
The first of our kind.
Vintage & Historical
When Robert Ripley Tried to Buy a Volcano
"It's been a lifelong dream of mine."
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Sunday Cartoon! - February 2, 2025
Cartoon of the Day
NASA has an Office of Planetary Protection, just in case we ever find life on other plants.
Robert Ripley began the Believe It or Not! cartoon in 1918. Today, Kieran Castaño is the eighth artist to continue the legacy of illustrating the world's longest-running syndicated cartoon!