From July to September of 1518 in modern-day France, hundreds of people developed a "dancing mania." There were many theories — like stress-induced mass hysteria and religion — that explained why people were dancing and, as a result, some of them died from it (heart attacks, strokes, and exhaustion).
Remember Y2K? Well there's a similar kind of computer bug situation, set to cause some operating systems grief after 03:14:07 UTC on January 19, 2038.
As a result of a poorly maintained sewage system that drained directly into the Thames River in London, the smell of sewage permeated London during the hot summer of 1858.
Who knew there was a term for when Twitter rumors kill someone off too soon?! But it was actually happening pre-social media, like in 2003 when CNN.com accidentally published some obituary drafts that said Fidel Castro, Dick Cheney, Nelson Mandela, Bob Hope, Gerald Ford, Pope John Paul II, and Ronald Reagan, who were all alive at the time, had died two years prior.
It's a weird name for a mathematical theory (known as the hedgehog theorem in Europe), but it states that "there is no nonvanishing continuous tangent vector field on even-dimensional n-spheres" or, in simpler terms, "you can't comb a hairy ball flat without creating a cowlick."
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Believe it or not, that's a whole grammatically correct sentence that employs the word buffalo in three ways — as a noun, as a verb, and as an attributive noun.
What would you do if it seemed like raw chunks of red meat appeared to be raining down from the sky? Probably coming up with explanations as to how it could be, like the people of Bath County, Kentucky on March 3, 1876.
"Frequently performed by sperm banks when screening potential sperm donors," this test is supposed to determine the efficacy of sperm in penetrating ova to determine infertility.
This rare syndrome is believed to be related to the medial temporal lobe of the brain which can make people compulsively eat, put inappropriate objects in their mouth, and even engage in hypersexuality.
"Boys are stupid, throw rocks at them!" controversy
David & Goliath T-shirts were my life for a minute, and they also caused controversy after men's rights activist Glenn Sacks claimed misandry and inciting violence in children as a reason why the shirts shouldn't be sold.
Equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington, Glasgow
It would be an unremarkable (though lovely) statue on its own merits, but the addition of traffic cones by mischievous visitors, a tradition dating back to at least the 1980s, elevates the piece.
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So 700 years ago was considered modern day France? Yeah, I guess shit hasn't changed much in that country since then.
It happened in Strasbourg. Part of the holy Roman Empire back then, but France today. 'Modern day France' describes the location.
and there is a whole scene of incel women full of hatred. Sometimes some of them even commit mass murder. And the hundreds of men who get killed by thir partners or ex partners. And the streamers who tell young women how to degrade men and that's totally normal to beat them. Or all those attempts to tell men what they should wear and what medical decisions they can or can't make.
You are totally right, misandry is the main problem in our society.
this. this right here.
At least they are outside getting exercise instead of just staring at a computer/phone!
I guess.
Are you talking about millennials? Cuz, no. Not even close to correct.