Gustav III was a mad Swedish king who decided to prove for once and for all that coffee and tea were lethal poisons. Death row inmates were experimented on in order to prove his point... Click here to visit Wikipedia's article on Gustav III of Sweden's coffee experiment ... Read More...
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A candlestick made from a mummified criminal's hand, holding a candle made from their own rendered-down body fat? Sounds great - where can I get one? Find out more about the gruesome 'Hand of Glory' over on Wikipedia ... Read More...
The Brown Dog Affair was an early 20thC uprising of British anti-vivisection sentiment, involving students rioting in the streets, stolen statues, and some Swedish feminists. Read more about the Brown Dog Affair and the Swedish feminists on Wikipedia... ... Read More...
An amusing legal case involving a disgruntled Pepsico customer and a Harrier Jump Jet... Read on to find out what happened in the crazy case of Leonard v. Pepsico at Wikipedia ... Read More...
America, land of the motorcar... and also land of the first ever person to be killed by a motorcar - the unfortunate (and probably rather careless) Henry H. Bliss. Read on to find out more at Wikipedia ... Read More...
There are some things in life that you may have seen happening lots of times without ever stopping to wonder why it is that the universe behaves in such a way. Today's Wikiworm article probably features one of those things - the Shower Curtain Effect - or the answer to the ... Read More...
The Millennium Challenge 2002 was a simulated American war game where the army pitted a massive array of state-of-the-art computer technologies against a significantly smaller and less well equipped hypothetical middle eastern army, led by one man - retired Lt. General Paul Van Riper. Read on to find out what happened over ... Read More...
Ghostly goings on and doubles entendres galore in today's spooky tale from the streets of old London Mentioned by Dickens and Hogarth, Scratching Fanny was a ghost purported to haunt a small alley called Cock Lane, between St Paul's and Smithfield. The existence or otherwise of the Cock Lane Ghost became a ... Read More...
A momentous occasion here on The Dabbler today as the Wikiworm reveals once and for all the answer to the important question; does a urine-detecting swimming pool dye really exist? Click here to go to Wikipedia and reveal the answer... ... Read More...
The twentieth century was littered with hair-brained grand schemes, and here's a classic example for today's weird wikipedia article... Atlantropa was a scheme that proposed building a huge hydroelectric dam across the Straits of Gibraltar, and also building three other dams in other parts of the Mediterranean with the aim of ... Read More...
