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50 Odd And Interesting ‘Weird History’ Posts From This Account That Makes Learning Fun No Matter How Old You Are (New Pics)
With real-life facts often being far stranger than fiction, there’s nothing like a good history book to get your noggin’ joggin’ and make you appreciate life from a whole different perspective. I might have started my love affair with history as a subject with the amazing Horrible History book series, but I’ve since then graduated to thick and dusty tomes.
However, I still have a yearning for the more fun and unusual aspects of history that first drew me in. And that’s where the Weird History Twitter page comes into play. A page with 172k followers that’s been active since September 2011, Weird History is the brainchild of Andrew Rader who does, well, pretty much everything: from book-writing to cool space stuff.
Have a look through some of the coolest recent posts made by the Weird History project, upvote the ones that you liked best, and later on consider absorbing some more delicious knowledge from Bored Panda's previous articles about the Twitter account here and here.
More info: Twitter (Weird History) | Twitter (Andrew) | Instagram | Facebook | YouTube | Andrew-Rader.com
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Leah Helbig 3 years ago
Our world was built from the back of the horse. They are one of the most important creatures who ever lived.
Andrew has a PhD from MIT in long-duration spaceflight, is an expert in space exploration, and has authored a host of academic and technical papers. What’s more, he’s an avid writer, having published books for adults and children alike, and he creates tabletop games in his spare time.
The Canadian, who now lives in Los Angeles in California, has also been extensively featured in the media, including in The New York Times and by Vice. And finally, adding to his great list of achievements, he’s a real trivia aficionado (even having taken home awards) and he’s the curator of the Weird Science account, too.
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Otter 3 years ago
That might be because in the 1930s, people were still catching tuberculosis from cow's milk. Sick cows can transmit the bacteria through non-pasteurized milk, so if the hospital had its own herd then they could make sure all the beasts were healthy and not infecting the patients.
Since 2014, Andrew has been working at SpaceX as a Mission Manager, while previously he had got 4 years of experience as a Spacecraft Systems Engineer at COM DEV. One of the coolest things about him (at least for me) is that he was a candidate for the Canadian Astronaut Corps back in 2009 and as recently as 2017.
What’s more, he was being considered as one of the potential candidates for a one-way mission to the Red Planet as part of the Mars One project in 2014. It should be clear by now that Andrews’s passion for science and history aren’t just for show—he’s dedicated his life to the pursuit of truth, knowledge, and pushing the limits of mankind. And Weird History… it’s just the tip of the iceberg.
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Chris Wade 3 years ago
I mean... As far as prison cells go, that surely isn't that bad, right? lol
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Chris Wade 3 years ago (edited)
Fast forward 82 years later and people moan about having to wear a cloth/paper mask on planes.
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judy baker 3 years ago
They build very few structures today that would last even half as long.
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Ryan Deschanel 3 years ago
Cousins are nice, but when a little horde of bloodthirsty bolcheviks want tu slaughter your family, they are not here to help you.
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Kai Wee Toh 3 years ago
...and then they replaced the cocaine with something more potent and addictive - refined white sugar.
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WilvanderHeijden 3 years ago
And nearly 70 years later he's still waiting for her to step down.
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Julia Atkinson 3 years ago
Combines the pleasure of horseriding with the anxiety of being accidentally blinded by your mount
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MagicalUnicorn 3 years ago
well, that's basically only time of home i could afford, so they weren't that wrong
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Sarah Grape 3 years ago
I thought he said redcoats; though regulars make more sense, red was a popular color for coats
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Kirsten Kerkhof 3 years ago
A tendency to decapitate the pilot. How many people had to die before they concluded it was a design/idea fault and not just bad luck on the part of the pilot?
Dave P 3 years ago
given this was the Nazi's, I doubt most of the "test pilots" were willing volunteers. They didnt care about dead concentration camp prisoners used as human experiments
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BluEyedSeoulite 3 years ago
Dammit, now that theme song will be stuck in my head all day!
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purple turtle 3 years ago
That's gotta call for a cut-throat competition in the weapons market.
Little Panda Bear 3 years ago
I spluttered at the end. I wonder how many poor souls died before they scrapped the idea.
Ray Martin 3 years ago
I wonder how they planned to stop the pilot from spinning in opposition to the main rotor.
Shirley Heyn 3 years ago
So, they only lost 2 pilots? First four considered human error and 5th maybe a design flaw. . . !
Janna Gelfand 3 years ago
I don't quite understand how the blades could suddenly get underneath the pilot's chin, but...after 1 or 2 tries, I would hope they got the point!!!
Marco Conti 3 years ago
How did they solve the torque issue? I don't see a balancing rotor anywhere.
Downunderdude 3 years ago
Fatalities increased markedly after the introduction of the ejector seat.
Kay blue 3 years ago
The Germans were very good at exaggerating their technical expertise during WWII, they had everyone believing thet had a death ray at one point.
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Luis Hernandez Dauajare 3 years ago
Fun fact: when Titanic sank, the White Star Company refused to pay officers and crew members for services provided during the sinking. And the family of one of the band members who died actually was charged for the loss of his uniform.
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Wilf 3 years ago
In France they call it the "iron harvest". About 900 tons of unexploded ordnance is recovered every year. If you drive around the battlefields it is perfectly common to see a handful of old hand grenades or mortar rounds sitting on the verge at a farmers' gate, waiting for the bomb disposal people to come on their latest run to pick them up.
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Chris Wade 3 years ago
Surely a while after him the name "sandwich" stuck but people have been putting stuff between slices of bread (or variations of bread) for thousands of years.
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Monday 3 years ago
Let's not forget the Great Molasses Flood in Boston in 1919. A molasses tank ruptured (it was overfilled if memory serves) and the resulting flood of molasses damaged buildings, sucked people under and coated everything in a sticky mess. 21 people died, many of them drowning in the thick molasses.
michael reid 3 years ago
Wich is an old english word for salt and there are lots of places ending with wich in England
Monday 3 years ago
Let's not forget the Great Molasses Flood in Boston in 1919. A molasses tank ruptured (it was overfilled if memory serves) and the resulting flood of molasses damaged buildings, sucked people under and coated everything in a sticky mess. 21 people died, many of them drowning in the thick molasses.
michael reid 3 years ago
Wich is an old english word for salt and there are lots of places ending with wich in England
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