| That in
the original story of Goldilocks the bears torture and kill
their impolite visitor?
That Pope Leo XIII appeared in an advertisement for
cocaine-laced wine in the 1880s?
That people didn't eat with forks until the 1700s?
That Sir Isaac Newton's famous humble-pie quote
"If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders
of giants" was actually written to a dwarf scientist named
Robert Hooke and clearly meant as an insult? |
That Thomas
Edison secretly helped develop the electric chair in a scheme to
have the lethal machine named after his arch-rival George
Westinghouse?
That the first pediatric guide written in the United
States recommended that expectant mothers breastfeed puppies?
That for two centuries French scientsits obsessively
experimented on freshly decapitated heads in an effort to
discover whether the bodiless brain still functioned
That Cleopatra was ugly as sin? |
