Odd Bits: Tulipmania Monkeys
Jan Brueghel the Younger mocked the speculators of the Tulip markets with his cavorting monkeys
Odd Bits: Paw Prints of a Talking Mongoose
In 1931 a family on the Isle of Man reported visitations from a talking mongoose named Gef.
Odd Bits: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Defense of Fairies
In 1922, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published a book about what later became known quite famously as the Cottingley Fairy Hoax. ⠀
Odd Bits: The Confessions of Mary Toft
A "miraculous" birthing unraveled by the discovery of smuggled rabbits.
Odd Bits: Bone Wars & Derpy Dinosaurs
A battle to the bottom between early paleontologists Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh
Odd Bits: The Great Moon Hoax
The frolicsome bat-winged moon men and ladies, moon beavers and unicorns of the Great Moon Hoax of 1835
Odd Bits: Tycho Brahe’s Observatory
The magnificent lost observatory of eccentric Danish astronomer, Tycho Brache
