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Strange History: Mysterious Artifacts, Macabre Legends, Boneheaded Blunders & Mind-Blowing Facts

by Portable Press

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Strange History is overflowing with mysterious artifacts, macabre legends, kooky inventions, reality-challenged rulers, boneheaded blunders, and mind-blowing facts. Did you know…

  • Julius Caesar was afraid of cats.
  • Mozart was infatuated with farts.
  • Neanderthals invented the mullet.
  • Columbus saw a UFO from the deck of the Santa Maria.
  • A con man nearly convinced New Yorkers to saw off Manhattan.
  • Queen Victoria smoked marijuana to cure her cramps.
  • The world "pants" comes from the name of a 16th-century clowdn.
  • The Mayans played a game like soccer . . . with human heads.
  • The ancient Roman poet Virgil held a funeral for a housefly.
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