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(I posted this recently in my own journal and have been meaning to post it in this community for a while...)

Drunk History is one of my absolute favorite things on the internet. Episodes pop up infrequently, and the delight I experience when I see there's a new one is indescribable. I just ran across the latest volume last night, Drunk History, ( Read more... )

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Dancing mania was a phenomenon that occurred primarily in mainland Europe from the 14th century through to the 17th century, in which groups of people would dance through the streets of towns or cities, sometimes foaming at the mouth or speaking in tongues, until they collapsed from exhaustion. The first major outbreak of the mania was in Aachen, ( Read more... )

It was discovered that all Peter did at night in bed with Catherine was play with wooden soldiers, miniature cannons and toy fortresses. Peter would make little cannon-firing noises with his mouth and shout orders to the inanimate armies on the bed, beg Catherine to join him, and hurriedly stash the playthings under the sheets whenever members of ( Read more... )

Snopes obnoxiously doesn't let you copy and paste, but the video and a short article about it can be found here.  It's not spot on, obviously, but a lot if it is actually pretty accurate. (Except, as the author points out, the creators of the video didn't conceive that gender roles might progress as well as technology.)

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If I had a date and a time machine, I'd take her and it to le Café de L'Enfer.


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Hey guys. I've been lurking for awhile and this is my first post here... definitely weird!


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