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7 Things You Did Not Know About the Racist Film The Birth of a Nation 1915
If you have never watched the original silent film “The Birth of a Nation” (1915), you can watch the entire movie for free below. Before…
Origin of Coin Flipping
We have all played a game of heads and tails at least once in our lives, but where did this custom of coin flipping originate?…
Masturbation Causes Sterility and is a Sign of Insanity
Masturbation was a dangerous game in the late 1800s and early 1900s. According to the experts of the time, it could cause all sorts of…
8 Halloween Pranks from Long Ago
Thirty years ago, Halloween jokes and pranks involved soaping windows, decorating trees with toilet paper, and jumping out from behind bushes to scare younger children….
Don’t Take Your Vibrator into the Bathtub and Other Bathtub Incidents
Plenty of strange things have happened inside the almighty bathtub and history is full of both disturbing and chuckle-worthy bathtub stories. Did you know that…
6 Accounts of Electric Chair Executions from the Early 1900s
As electric chairs were first being installed in the United States, beginning in New York, people were assured that this was the pleasant way to…
5 Gut Wrenching Tales of Children Kept in Cellars
There are reasons why children today find cellars so creepy. For one, people would often place dead bodies in the cellar for safe keeping until…
6 Gruesome Hammer Deaths from the Past
Just about anything can be picked up and used as a weapon, from umbrellas to hammers. In the past, as opposed to the present day,…
Origin of Black Cat Superstitions
In all ancient cultures, cats were a sign of good fortune and were held in high esteem. This included the black cat. Ancient Egyptians mummified…
About Charles Perrault and His Monument in Paris – Father of Mother Goose
If you love fairy tales and The Mother Goose Rhymes, then you have probably heard of French author Charles Perrault, but what you probably didn’t…
