Curiosities

Claim: A video shared online in early October 2025 authentically showed police officers chasing after a person wearing a pickle costume. Rating: In early October 2025, a video shared widely across social media purportedly showed police officers chasing after a person wearing...

Girolamo Savonarola's denunciations of luxury during the Renaissance drew the ire of the Catholic Church, which had him excommunicated, tortured, hanged, and burned in 1498. Daderot/Wikimedia CommonsA statue of Girolamo Savonarola in Ferrara, Italy. Just the word Florence evokes a...

Mitsubishi once ran a “0–0–0” deal in the U.S.—$0 down, 0% interest, and no payments for 12 months.... Source link

<!--qv q:id=9n q:key=vcaa:Halloween is just around the corner, meaning it’s time to go costume hunting. Which characters are making waves this Halloween season? Google Trends reveals the answer, reflecting pop culture fads from video games to movies. -->Halloween is just...

When Ed Gein was arrested for murdering a local shopkeeper in 1957, the roughly 700 residents of Plainfield, Wisconsin, were not surprised. Shocked, yes, but Gein had always been an oddball in their eyes. Shock quickly turned to horror after...

Beside the stone box was a wooden one, which contained the pharaoh's inscription.Andrzej Niwiński/Warsaw University’s Institute of ArchaeologyThis wooden box contained an inscription of Pharaoh Thutmose II which suggests that he was buried nearby. The tomb of Pharaoh Thutmose II...

Claim: Images authentically showed a Chihuahua that joined a pack of wolves near Ely, Minnesota. Rating: In September 2025, images circulated online that claimed to authentically show a Chihuahua near Ely, Minnesota, that had joined a pack of wolves. According to one popular...

<!--qv q:id=9n q:key=vcaa:“Not all is as it seems.” Those were some of the first words viewers heard at the beginning of Paul Daniels Live at Halloween, a television special that aired live on BBC1 on October 31, 1987. For...

When we talk about dumplings, we’re not just talking about one dish but a variety, each with its own unique doughy outer layer and a filling. The thing with dumplings is that there are so many different kinds all over...

As the AIDS epidemic ripped through the U.S. in the 1980s, Stephen Stucker became one of the first celebrities to go public with his diagnosis before succumbing to the disease in 1986.Paramount Pictures/YouTubeStephen Stucker (left) was best known for...