A cabinet of lovable weirdos
Tiny true stories,
lovingly odd.
Weird science, forgotten history, and human quirks — each one true, each under a minute, each a little stranger than you’d expect.
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Empress Sissi (Elisabeth of Austria)
The Empress and the File
What does a 19th-century empress do in a room called the Toilette- und Turnzimmer?
She walked ten hours a day, fenced twice some days, and kept gymnastic rings rigged in her bedroom doorway. At fifty-six she weighed 96 pounds and had been diagnosed with edema of hunger. Empress Elisabeth of Austria, the Hofburg's hungriest athlete.
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The Man Nobody Could Find
The FBI sent the fastest plane ever built to find him, and it was defeated by clouds.
The Man Who Called for a Fictional Doctor
A man who had invented 2,472 people died asking one of them to save him.
The Man Who Died in a Meeting
He grafted a human tooth onto a rooster's head to see what would happen. It grew.
The Man Who Could Not Swim
He crossed every ocean alone and considered learning to swim entirely pointless.
