Curiosities

<!--qv q:id=7n q:key=vcaa:Back in the late 1950s, Sylvia Plath and her husband, the poet Ted Hughes, had a regular guest at their table—a spirit they called Pan—and they reached him the low-budget way. In his notes to Plath’s Collected...

Helheim, the frigid underworld ruled by the goddess Hel in Norse mythology, isn't a place of punishment but rather a continuation of life where the deceased eat, drink, sleep, and fight.Public DomainThe Norse goddess Hel sits in Helheim with...

The claim that North Korea's supreme leader Kim Jong Un is dead is unfounded. The rumor stems from U.S-based Chinese dissident Wanjun Xie, who has a history of spreading false or unverified claims on social media.  Snopes found no verifiable evidence...

<!--qv q:id=7n q:key=vcaa:Sometimes all it takes is a funny joke to pull you out of a bad mood and into a better headspace, especially if that headspace is spooky season (and all the goblins and gore that go along...

Archaeologists digging at Cap Corse along the Bay of Meria uncovered a sturdy foundation made of carefully-carved stone blocks, with rooms separated by large monoliths of schist.Brice Chevaux, InrapThis ancient Roman-era dwelling was found during preventative excavations ahead of...

During the first half of his second term, U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the federal government to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, Denali to Mount McKinley and Lake Ontario to Lake America. In October,...

<!--qv q:id=7c q:key=vcaa:The year 1816 was anything but ordinary; some even recalled it as haunting. -->The year 1816 was anything but ordinary; some even recalled it as haunting. <!--qv q:id=7h q:key=vcaa:The eruption of Indonesia's Mount Tambora shot particles into the atmosphere,...

Though the Vanderbilts spent millions to build The Breakers, they considered the 70-room mansion in Newport, Rhode Island to simply be their "summer cottage." ...

Images allegedly show water towers across US with anti-data center messaging. Are they real?June 3, 2026 The water towers were purportedly spotted across numerous U.S. states, such as Arizona, Georgia, ... Read More ...

<!--qv q:id=7c q:key=vcaa:The biggest box office draw of the 1970s is claimed to be legendary Hollywood star Robert Redford. Thanks to roles in the likes of All the President’s Men, The Way We Were, and The Sting (which earned...