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Cool stories, strange facts, and forgotten moments from history
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Wojtek the Bear — The Polish Soldier Bear of World War II
Traded for a can of food as a cub, Wojtek the bear was officially enlisted in the Polish Army, carried…
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The Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower — Twice
In the spring of 1925, a dapper, smooth-talking man sat in a suite at the Hôtel de Crillon — one…
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The Dancing Plague of 1518: When Hundreds of People Couldn’t Stop Dancing
In July 1518, on a narrow street in Strasbourg — then part of the Holy Roman Empire — a woman…