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At five in the morning on 27 November 1810, chimney sweeps started arriving at 54 Berners Street in London. Not one sweep. Twelve of them, one after another, all told to report to the same quiet house. The widow who lived there sent them away confused, and then the coal wagons turned up. By midday…

In August 2023, more than 160 uniformed soldiers of the Norwegian King’s Guard stood at attention inside Edinburgh Zoo. They were waiting for an inspection. The inspecting officer was a king penguin. He walked the line at his own pace, because nobody rushes a penguin. At the end of it, he made Major General. That’s…

Sylvester Marsh asked the New Hampshire legislature for permission to build a railway up Mount Washington. They didn’t say no. They did something better. They granted the charter. Then they reportedly suggested he might as well extend the thing to the moon while he was at it. Nobody thought it would work. A train cannot…

In the 1890s, the highest-paid performer in France was not Sarah Bernhardt. It was a former baker from Marseille who did impressions with his backside. His name was Joseph Pujol. He went by Le Pétomane, which translates to something like “fartomaniac.” At his peak he pulled in around 20,000 francs a week. Bernhardt, the most…

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