These days, queens and princesses have their babies in the safest and most comfortable environments possible. They are also offered privacy for the occasion, even if there is huge public interest in the event. However, this was not always the case. Far from it, in fact. Indeed, for centuries, in…

1. A professional wrestler named Kerry Von Erich had to have his foot amputated after a bad accident but continued wrestling while secretly wearing a prosthetic - even showering in his boots so no one would know. His injury wasn't public knowledge until his death from suicide 7 years later.

1. Utsuro-Bune was a Japanese legend about an unknown object washing ashore in Hitachi in 1803. Inside there was a young woman who spoke an unknown language and who was carrying a small box which she didn't let anyone touch.

Mao’s last public appearance—and the last known photograph of him alive—was on May 27, 1976, when he met the visiting Pakistani Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto during the latter’s one-day…

1. NASA hires a man named George Aldrich to sniff everything that they send to space. If he doesn't like the smell, it doesn't go to space.

Although the death penalty in England was abolished in 1965, historians have pinpointed the precise locations of the capital's most notorious execution sites, which you can visit for a spine-chilling day out.

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1. Leonardo Da Vinci's last words were: "I have offended God and Mankind, by doing so little with my life."

Hirō Onoda was an Imperial Japanese Army intelligence officer who fought in World War II and was a Japanese holdout who did not surrender in 1945. After

1. The Soviet Union cancelled history exams in 1988 because increased government transparency had revealed that the textbooks were filled with lies.

Public restroom etiquette can be a tricky topic for men. This illustrated guide illuminates the dos and don'ts of doing your business in public.

1. When Julius Caesar died, he left today's equivalent of about $270 to each and every Roman citizen.

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If you haven’t heard of the renegade 17th century Queen Christina of Sweden, you’re in for a treat.

1. President Gerald Ford faced controversy for wearing a digital watch, an expensive high-tech device in the 1970s.

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Mass hysteria is the common term used to describe a situation in which various people all suffer from similar hysterical symptoms - either from a phantom illness or an inexplicable event. This list looks at ten of the most well known cases of Mass Hysteria - from the past and present. 10Mumbai Sweet Water The

A beloved Robert Frost poem is among the many creations that are (finally) losing their protections in 2019

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Revisiting the Dreyfus affair.