Strange history

1. James Sligo Jameson, the heir to Irish whiskey manufacturer Jameson's, bought an 11-year-old girl and offered her to cannibals to document and sketch how she was cooked and eaten.

History was one of our favorite subjects in school. There's no end to how much you can learn about the world and the people in it. Have you ever wondered how

01. Charles VIII of France fell in a coma after he hit his head on the lintel of a door while leaving a game of Tennis and died hours later.

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There are lots of fun facts about England due to its long history which has thrown up lots of strange anomalies and rather strange ways of doing things, or traditions.

Fact Republic is where curiosity meets clarity. Discover random, history, and uncommon facts about everyday life. Uncover the unbelievable and unknown

Death is a common denominator for all humankind. It doesn’t happen the same way for every person, however. Indeed, historically speaking, some endings have ...

1. In the late 1800's you could buy a mummy from street vendors in Egypt and Victorian era parties that were the highlight of the social season were called “A Mummy Unwrapping Party!”

When you move into a new home, it’s expected that there will be one or two unpleasant surprises. Maybe the plumbing isn’t all that it should be, or the neighbors throw a lot of noisy parties, or, oops, your couch won’t fit through the front door. What you don’t expect to deal with are a bunch of corpses in the backyard that hold a grudge against you. But, as you will see, such things sometimes happen. In the early 1980s, developers completed a housing subdivision in Newport, just outside of…