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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Agatha Christie
The Woman Who Became Her Own Mystery
If the world's greatest mystery writer vanished for eleven days and registered at a hotel under her husband's mistress's name, what exactly was she solving?
A woman vanished. A thousand police searched. Conan Doyle handed her glove to a psychic. She was at a spa, reading newspapers covered in her own face, registered under her husband's mistress's name. Agatha Christie, the one mystery no one got to solve.
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The Astronomer and the Moose
The greatest astronomer of the sixteenth century lost his nose in a duel over math, consulted a clairvoyant dwarf, and owned a moose that died falling down stairs drunk on beer.
The Worm Who Rewrote Physics
The four equations that power every phone on Earth were written by a man who lived on granite blocks and signed his letters W.O.R.M.
The Man Who Recorded Everything
After nearly walking into Lake Michigan in 1927, Buckminster Fuller decided instead to document his entire life in fifteen-minute intervals.
