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In the mid-1960s, the CIA embarked on one of the strangest espionage projects in history: Operation Acoustic Kitty. The plan? Implant listening devices inside a cat to eavesdrop on Soviet conversations. It [...]

Picture the Middle Ages and you probably smell them first. But the “no one bathed” cliché collapses fast when you look at bathhouse records, monastic rules about washing, city laws on cesspits, [...]

The ultimate index of history’s most bizarre, misunderstood, and occasionally ridiculous people, events, and concepts — one gloriously chaotic entry at a time. A Anna of Saxony’s Meltdown (1567) The wife of [...]