The details of the Manhattan Project were so secret that many workers had no idea why they did their jobs. A laundrywoman had a dedicated duty to “hold up an instrument and listen for a clicking noise” without knowing why. It was a Geiger counter testing the radiation levels of uniforms. The post The details… Read More »
Autumn is in the air, which means that Halloween will be here before you know it. This holiday is great fun for adults and children alike, making the occasion the perfect excuse to throw a party. Here are five tips to help you to throw the best Halloween party ever! Consider Entertainment While everyone will… Read More »
King Gillette, inventor of the safety razor, was a socialist who wrote a book describing his vision of the U.S. population living in a single utopian metropolis/building powered by Niagara Falls. Only 1 in 7 people would need to work, and it would be free of money and thus free of crime. The post King… Read More »
A bank robber in France made a fictitious, coded document which he claimed as evidence during his trial. While the judge was distracted by the document, Albert Spaggiari jumped out of a window, landing safely on a parked car and escaped on a waiting motorcycle. He was never seen again. The post A bank robber… Read More »
The last school that was desegregated was Cleveland High School in Cleveland, Mississippi. This happened in 2016. The order to desegregate this school came from a federal judge, after decades of struggle. This case originally started in 1965 by a fourth-grader. The post The last school that was desegregated… appeared first on Crazy Facts. Source
The U.S. military has used superstition and pretended to be vampires and ghosts to scare enemies away. They dispersed scary horoscopes in Germany, staged vampire attacks in the Philippines, and in Vietnam blasted ghost tapes which consisted of spooky music and eerie voices. Only vampires worked. The post The U.S. military has used superstition… appeared… Read More »
In 1921 a submarine ran out of fuel some 190 Km from Hawaii during searching of a lost tug boat. The submarine had a week’s worth of ration on board and no radio communication. The crew make a sail by rigging up blankets. The submarine successfully sailed to Hawaii in a couple of days. The… Read More »
In 1969, 17 year old Cuban, Armando Socarras Ramirez survived hiding in the right wheel well of a Douglas DC-8 on an eight-hour flight from Havana to Madrid. Upon landing he was found on the ground covered in ice and not breathing, Dubbed ”the popsicle” by Spanish doctors, he recovered fully. The post In 1969,… Read More »
A woman quit her job to search for her border collie who escaped from a hotel room during a thunderstorm while on vacation in Kalispell, Montana. After 57 days of searching and posting hundreds of flyers around town, she finally found ‘Katie’ who was starving, but otherwise OK. The post A woman quit her job… Read More »