People & Society

People & Society Michelangelo Created a Sleeping Cupid Figure and Treated it with Acidic Earth to Appear Ancient. He Then Sold it to a Dealer who Sold it to Cardinal Riario of San Giorgio. Later, They Found Out About the Fraud and Demanded a Refund. Michelangelo was Permitted to Keep His Share. December 30, 2022

People & Society Gordon Ramsay Has Chosen Not to Give His Children a Large Inheritance. He also Does Not Take Them to Expensive Restaurants and Allow Them to Sit in First Class on Planes. December 19, 2022

People & Society Neil Armstrong Visited Langholm, Scotland in 1972. He Read a 400-Year Old Law Declaring That Any “Armstrong” Caught in the Town Should be Hanged. December 19, 2022

People & Society As a Prank, a Group of Men Added Susanna M. Salter to the Mayoral Ballot of Argonia, Kansas in 1887. This was to Discourage Women from Running for Office. She Won and Became America’s First Female Mayor. December 19, 2022

People & Society On White Day, Boys in Japan Buy Gifts to Give Back to the Girls Who Bought Them Gifts on Valentine's Day. December 17, 2022

People & Society Two Canadian Universities Recalled Condoms Provided to Students After Stapling a Note About Consent on Them. December 14, 2022

People & Society Months After Martin Luther King Jr. was Assassinated, Fred Rodgers and Francois Clemmons Worked Together to Fight Segragation. December 13, 2022

People & Society Atlanta Artist TI has Saved at Least Two People from Suicide Attempts. One of Them was the Lead Singer of Creed, Scott Stapp. December 12, 2022

People & Society Della Porta Invented a Method of Writing Secret Messages Inside Eggs. Ink Transferred from the Shell to the Boiled Egg Inside. The Message Could Only be Revealed When Cracked and Peeled? December 11, 2022

People & Society Al Capone was the First Person to Open a Soup Kitchen During the Great Depression. His Kitchens Served Three Meals a Day to Ensure That Everyone Who Had Lost a Job Get a Meal. December 9, 2022

People & Society In the 1920s, James Joyce Would Get Drunk and Start Fights. He Would Then Hide Behind Ernest Hemingway for Protection December 8, 2022

People & Society In June 2022, Belgium Returned the Gold-Capped Tooth of Patrice Lumumba. He Had Been Executed in 1961, and the Tooth was All That Remained After He was Dissolved in Acid and His Bones Ground to Dust. December 4, 2022

People & Society There are 160 Separate Photographic Portraits of Frederick Douglass, Which is More Than Abraham Lincoln. December 2, 2022

People & Society Qian Xuesen Graduated from MIT and Caltech. He was a Major Contributor to the Field of Engineering and Aerodynamics on the Manhattan Project. He is also Regarded as the Father of Chinese Rocketry. December 1, 2022

People & Society Faustin E. Wirkus, a United States Marine Corps Sergeant Who was Stationed in Haiti, was Proclaimed "King of La Gonâve” in 1926 After He Saved the Queen from Drowning. November 28, 2022

People & Society The Popularity of Doer Names for Boys Like Racer, Trooper, Charger, Wrangler, and More Rose in Popularity Between 1980 and 2000. There are Around 50,000 Doer Named Boys in a Year. November 26, 2022

People & Society Ayn Rand, a Russian-American Writer, Actually Hated the Libertarians and Anarcho-Capitalists of Her Time. November 19, 2022

People & Society Ronald Regan Started Eating Jelly Belly Jellybeans to Quit Smoking and Kept It Up During His Term as the President of the United States. He Had About 300,000 Jellybeans Shipped to the White House Each Month. November 9, 2022

People & Society Glenn Close’s Parents were Cult Members, and She Spent 15 Years of Her Life Living in Communes. She Left at the Age of 22. November 9, 2022

People & Society The Residents of La California, Italy, Have Held Farcical Ballots for the United States Presidential Elections Since 2004. While Their Votes Do Not Count, They Still Send the Results of Each Election to the US Consulate. November 2, 2022