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Cool stories, strange facts, and forgotten moments from history
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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…
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The Great Emu War: When Australia Declared War on Birds — And Lost
In 1932, the Australian government did something that sounds like it belongs in a satirical novel: it deployed soldiers armed…