During one of the first locomotive trials, a lady kept shouting: «It won’t go! It won’t go!» When the locomotive started moving, she kept shouting. What exactly?

Alexander the Great was undoubtedly a hero. But who were the parents who gave birth to such a child, endowed him with such genes, and raised him the way they did? Let’s talk about them

One of the most famous and controversial chapters in psychology is the Stanford Prison Experiment, conducted by Philip Zimbardo in 1971. How were ordinary students turned into victims and sadists, and why did the experiment have to be stopped on the sixth day?

According to WHO, in 2017, 219,000,000 people suffered from this disease. Currently, up to one million people die from it each year. It is possible that it was the cause of death for Columbus, Dante, Caravaggio, Byron, and many other famous figures. Which soft drink was born from the battle against this disease?

What exactly did Henry Ford start installing at a 30-degree angle to increase labor productivity?

The story of Doña Marina, known as Malinche, is one of a woman whose emotions reshaped the fate of the Aztec Empire. She became the crucial link between two worlds, aiding Hernán Cortés in conquering an entire nation. Whether she is remembered as a symbol of betrayal or a victim of circumstance — that is for you to decide

Austrian engineer Hans Hörbiger was convinced that facts were unnecessary to prove the truth of his astonishing theory. He believed that winning over the totalitarian leader of the state where he preached his ideas was enough to render all contradicting evidence meaningless

In 1927, the great mathematician Hilbert was scheduled to give a lecture at the Lorentz Institute. Before his departure, he telegraphed the topic of his lecture: «Proof of Fermat’s Great Theorem». However, he ended up delivering a completely different lecture. Why did he do that?

Elizabeth I went down in history as an outstanding monarch whose 44-year reign marked an era of prosperity for England. She was known as the «Virgin Queen» and skillfully upheld this image, engaging in years of marriage negotiations that always ended in nothing. But did she truly renounce not only marriage but also male attention?

A whole cohort of completely grown-up, fully capable, and legally sound individuals do not believe that the Earth is round. In their eyes, all notions of a spherical Earth are a cunning deception perpetrated by some mysterious malevolent force. So where, in an age of universal secondary education, do flat-earthers even come from?

During World War II, ensuring maritime transport was crucial for the Allied forces. German submarines significantly hindered these efforts. To counter this threat, among other strategies, it became essential to learn how to build merchant ships much faster than before. However, a large ship is an extremely complex structure, typically requiring months or even years to construct. How could shipbuilding be accelerated, not just by a few percent, but by several times?

Dutch flight attendant Esther Sturrus, who works for the globally renowned airline KLM, shared that she recommends her colleagues place one of their uniform shoes in the hotel room safe as soon as they check in. Why?