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Eat your heart out.
Louis XIV's Appetite
When French King Louis XIV died in 1715, his stomach was reportedly twice the size of the average human. Louis was known for his voracious appetite, but little did he know that three-quarters of a century after his death, one of his organs would become a meal of its own. William Buckland, a geologist and the Dean of Westminster, ate his heart.
Louis, known as the Sun →
The first woman to circumnavigate the globe by car, Aloha greased the differential on her Model T with crushed bananas…
Aloha Wanderwell
Aloha Wanderwell loved record breaking. In the 1920s, she traveled 380,000 miles across 80 countries becoming the first woman to circumnavi →
From Globe, For Globe - Pulse of the Planet
Teen boys roamed the streets with large sticks, some with nails protruding on the ends to help hook the straw hats off people’s heads.
Straw Hat Riot
Men in the early 20th century who wore straw hats after September 15 were commonly ridiculed. Their hats were snatched off their heads and crushed. During one fateful year, men in straw hats were physically assaulted by mobs of teenage hoodlums in New York City.
Men commonly wore hats in the Roaring Twenties, but societal norms strictly prevented th →
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