stackyFACTSBefore late fees, librarians employed the much more aggressive tactic of literal iron restraints. Books were so painstakingly rare and expensive to produce that libraries physically shackled them to desks so readers couldn't stuff them in their coats and run.
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How do you prove someone copied your massive list of words? You just lie. Lexicographers would deliberately invent entirely meaningless words and sneak them…
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The father of gothic poetry was chronically broke and drowning in debt. Seeking a quick paycheck from magazines, Poe wrote 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' in…
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Every generation needs something trivial to panic over. In the eighteenth century, society was convinced that reading fictional stories would completely…
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When you want to thoroughly psych out your enemies, gaslighting them with oversized clothing is a genuinely elite strategy. During his retreat from India,…
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The punctuation mark that currently haunts college essays had a completely different day job. It originally functioned purely as a marker to show that a…
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Hence the phrase 'sleep tight,' because if you didn't manually crank the ropes every day, your saggy bed would dump you directly onto the freezing floor.
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