If it ain’t weird, interesting, and enlightening, it ain’t got any place on the Weird History Twitter page. Home to nearly 177k adoring fans, the Weird History project embodies the best aspects of education in the digital age: make it short, make it precise, and make it fun. Throw in some spot-on illustrations and boom! You’ve made yourself popular with fact-lovers all over the globe.
Created by Andrew Rader way back in September 2011, Weird History has been going strong ever since for more than a decade. There’s always a new fact, a new tidbit of trivia to hook your interest and keep you learning. Scroll down and enjoy the best post from Weird History. Don’t forget to upvote the facts you enjoyed learning the most and be sure to give the project a follow on your fave social media (it’s on almost all of them).
Meanwhile, I reached out to Lenore Skenazy, the president of Let Grow and the founder of the Free-Range Kids movement to learn about how parents can help encourage their kids to learn new things and develop fresh interests, whether historical or otherwise, without smothering them or putting undue pressure on them. You’ll find Bored Panda's interview about the importance of stepping back avoiding the urge to control everything as you scroll down.
Pssst, Pandas, over here! We know how much you enjoy learning new facts, especially all the cool history trivia that Weird History has to offer. After you’re done absorbing all the knowledge in this list, you should definitely check out Bored Panda’s previous features about ‘Weird History’ right over here: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.
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