Author Archives: WeRaven

13 Lesser-Known Pandemic Facts

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit the world in late 2019 and early 2020, people panicked, and authorities didn’t know what to do. Institutions ordered their employees to work from home, and most parts of the world were on lockdown and quarantine. Although the COVID-19 pandemic is the one that still lingers in our minds, there…… Read More »

History’s Literal Deadliest Fart

While dropping your drawers and flashing your no doubt abnormally attractive derriere at those you wish to express your contempt for may seem a relatively harmless act, it turns out at one point in history combining said act with expelling the gaseous contents of one’s colon once resulted in the deaths of at least 10,000… Read More »

Who Invented the Jet Engine?

On the morning of August 27, 1939, a small aircraft was towed onto the runway at Marienehe airfield in Mecklenberg, northern Germany. To the handful of observers gathered at the edge of the field, the craft must have looked like something out of science fiction, with its gleaming barrel-shaped fuselage, gaping nose intake, and stubby… Read More »