stackyFACTSThe most famous escape artist in history was taken down by a completely mundane injury. Harry Houdini did not die in a dramatic water torture cell, but rather from a ruptured appendix after a random fan abruptly punched him.
Keep exploring facts in this topic.
Culture & entertainment →STACKY FOR IPHONEKeep discovering with Stacky. Interesting facts in an app that is always within reach.
Before they were busy ruining and subsequently fixing Sonic the Hedgehog, Paramount was out here claiming geographical features. Created in 1914 as a quick…
Discover more
Modern audiences might furiously tweet about a bad film, but early cinema patrons kept it wonderfully medieval. If a projection broke or the plot was terribly…
Discover more
Next time you mark off numbers on a paper slip, remember you are participating in ancient warfare funding. The origins of Keno date entirely back to ancient…
Discover more
Before becoming highly commercialized routines, breakdancing battles in New York were utilized as non-lethal turf war settlements. Rival groups would hurl…
Discover more
Ancient Greek theater was essentially the ultimate test of multi-tasking. Strict theatrical rules dictated that a play could feature an unlimited chorus, but…
Discover more
In a move of staggering patriarchal absurdity, 16th-century English society considered it wildly immoral for a woman to act on stage. Thus, every single…
Discover more