Henry's Daily Factoids

Sapeurs are gentlemen (and occasionally ladies) from Brazzaville (the capital of the Republic of Congo) who have made an art form out of d...

Just when I think that Führerphilia has finally reached the pinnacle of the bizarre (see, for example, Nazi Oenophilia ), I find that I ...

Thomas Courtenay was a St. Louis businessman who developed the "coal torpedo" for use by the Confederacy in the American Civil...

View image | gettyimages.com "Penny dreadfuls" were cheap pamphlets published for about eighty years in England afte...

  Scientists studying satellite images from all over the world were gobsmacked to note that, in the vast majority of instances, grazing or r...

View image | gettyimages.com In 1631, Robert Barker and Martin Lucas, the royal printers in London, produced a version of the K...

On June 4, 1944, sailors under U.S. Navy Captain David V. Gallery, Commander of Task Force No. 22.3, boarded and captured the German submar...