Footnote – 1935: Cake Still Good After 35 Years Published on June 10, 2022 Posted in: Bizarre & Oddities, Love & Marriage, Tidbits Would you eat a 35-year-old piece of wedding cake? Frederika Weber did just that it was surprisingly still good.Click to Read More...
1943 – Sliced Bread Banned by the United States Published on June 6, 2022 Posted in: Bizarre & Oddities, Tidbits The U.S. government banned bakeries from slicing bread during WWII. Let's just say that things did not go as planned...Click to Read More...
Footnote – 1927: Fly Swatter Used To Lose Weight Published on June 3, 2022 Posted in: Bizarre & Oddities, Science, Technology & Medicine, Tidbits Springfield, MA was experiencing a big run on fly swatters because women were using them to swat away their excess weight.Click to Read More...
1931: Mistaken Identity Finally Ends Published on April 19, 2022 Posted in: Bizarre & Oddities, Tidbits The story of two women who lived on the same street, attended the same high school, and had similar names that were pronounced identically.Click to Read More...
1930: Live Baby Auctioned Off Published on March 1, 2022 Posted in: Bizarre & Oddities, Hoaxes, Tidbits Could a baby really be auctioned off? An ad by the Red Arrow Auctions claimed that they would be doing so at their next auction. Was there a catch?Click to Read More...
Dying Navy Officer’s Wish Fulfilled Published on January 11, 2022 Posted in: Bizarre & Oddities, Tidbits While Lieutenant Nathaniel M. Dial was dying, he asked that his class ring be given to his son. The ring was then lost. Years later, it was found.Click to Read More...
Sucked into Jet Engine Published on January 4, 2022 Posted in: Bizarre & Oddities, Escape and Survival, Tidbits Can you imagine getting sucked into a jet engine? That happened to Al Richards in 1951 and he survived!Click to Read More...
Retrograph – 1961: Harry Crosby Published on November 17, 2021 Posted in: Bizarre & Oddities Colorized image of Harry Crosby in the the signal cabin in Sallins, County Kildare, Ireland.Click to Read More...
Retrorewind – 1966: Transogram Swing Wing Toy Published on November 15, 2021 Posted in: Bizarre & Oddities The Swing Wing was supposed to be Transogram's answer to the Hula Hoop. It wasn't...Click to Read More...
Footnote – 1940: ‘Perfect Host’ Gets Prison Term Published on November 2, 2021 Posted in: Bizarre & Oddities In 1940, Wayman G. Woody was arrested for robbing the homes of friends while his wife entertained them at dinner.Click to Read More...
Footnote – 1952: Dammed Missouri Valley Book Disappears in Flood Published on October 12, 2021 Posted in: Bizarre & Oddities, Footnotes to History, Humor, Tidbits A patron was unable to return the book The Dammed Missouri Valley to his local library because the river had taken it away in a flood.Click to Read More...
A Woman Had Some Run-Ins With Modern Appliances (1957) Published on October 5, 2021 Posted in: Bizarre & Oddities, Tidbits Firemen had to be called to get Virginia Schoen's hands out of her garbage disposal. They later returned to get her toe out of her refrigerator door.Click to Read More...
Footnote – 1928: Husband Refuses to Buy His Wife False Teeth Published on September 24, 2021 Posted in: Bizarre & Oddities, Footnotes to History, Law & Order, Love & Marriage, Tidbits In 1928, Mathias Blau was in a Chicago courtroom because he had his wife's teeth pulled and refused to purchase dentures for her.Click to Read More...
Footnote – 1957: Helicopter Melon Thief Published on September 12, 2021 Posted in: Bizarre & Oddities, Crime & Punishment, Footnotes to History In June 1957, a helicopter landed in a Brawley, California watermelon patch and stole three melons before taking off again.Click to Read More...
Footnote – 1952: 200 Hog Calling Records Stolen Published on September 7, 2021 Posted in: Bizarre & Oddities, Crime & Punishment, Footnotes to History, Humor Just what would anyone do with 200 stolen hog calling phonograph records?Click to Read More...