Category: Bizarre
A city once had a strange outbreak of nonstop dancing.
The Dancing Plague of 1518 was an episode in Strasbourg where people reportedly danced for an unusually long time.
Giant desert drawings were made long before airplanes.
The Nazca Lines in Peru are massive geoglyphs created between 500 BC and 500 AD, visible only from the air. New discoveries continue with drone technology.
Bananas Are Botanically Berries
Bananas are botanical berries, developing from a single ovary with seeds in fleshy pulp, a classification shared with tomatoes, cucumbers and citrus.
The Voynich Manuscript Still Resists Translation
Explore the Voynich manuscript, an undeciphered 15th‑century codex with strange illustrations and unknown script that continues to baffle scholars.