Doctor John Brinkley (1885 - 1942) was a debunked medical doctor famous for popularizing the "miraculous goat gland cure", in which he purported to cured impotence by replacing testicles of patients with the testicle of goats. In addition to this rather bizarre claim, he was immensely popular on ...

The Hays Code was a censorship code in the United States which was eventualy replaced by actual age ratings. The code was not an age rating system, basically, all films had to be basically no more than PG-rated. The earliest information I could find was about the British Board of Film Censors, la...

The single payer system of Germany, UK, France, Italy and Spain was all proposed or implemented by Fascist parties. Was there just happening to be a correlation in timing there?

I was reading the (albeit not very historical) Chatelaine article "Can You Actually Raise A Baby Free From Gender?" and came across the statement: The notion that a boy should have short hair doesn’t hold in many Indigenous communities, where boys and men follow their tradition of wearing long b...

I remember reading somewhere that upon arrival in Hispaniola, Columbus found beaches that were so plentiful with lobsters that they appeared red. It is possible I read this in a book by Bill Bryson, either "at home" or "a short history of nearly everything". Does this sound right? Does anyone ha...

I remember reading a long time ago about a marginalized group on the southern coast of France who was persecuted by the French government. This group for quite understandable reasons wanted to leave France but the French king at the time passed a law forbidding members of this group from leaving ...