Just because they had to use slow-moving snail mail didn’t mean its content couldn’t be racy.
Back in the day, President Harding used to write extra steamy letters to Carrie Phillips, his mistress at the time.
The Victorians Used to Wear Dead Body Parts as Jewelry
Grief is a complicated and difficult thing to handle. Often, we look for ways to hold onto our loved ones who have passed on, memorializing them with photographs and keepsakes. However, people took this grieving process to a whole new level during the Victorian era.
To memorialize dead family members, some people used to have jewelry specially made out of their body parts. Necklaces and bracelets were made out of teeth, hair, and bone from the deceased. Talk about a family “hair-loom!”
Two Famous Presidents Died on Independence Day
Both John Adams and Thomas Jefferson signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. Little did they know, the independence of the United States wasn’t the only historical event that would occur on July 4th.
Oddly enough, 50 years later both Adams and Jefferson would die on July 4th, 1826. Could it be a coincidence? Or was it fate?
President Lyndon B. Johnson Flashed More Than a Smile During an Interview Once
It’s hard to believe, but Lyndon B. Johnson made quite a statement after a reporter annoyed him by repeatedly asking why American troops were still overseas in Vietnam.
Perhaps Johnson momentarily forgot how to use his words, instead of whipping out his “johnson” and exclaiming “THIS IS WHY!”
A Circus Train Made History but for Reasons You Might Not Think
In 1918, after falling asleep at the wheel, a train engineer accidentally crashed into the back of another train. This secondary train happened to be a circus train, transporting circus performers.
86 people died in the crash, some of which included a trapeze artist and two brothers who put on a strongman act. Perhaps running away with the circus isn’t such a good idea after all.