@econopass.comIn a forest in northwestern Poland, roughly 400 pine trees grow with a sharp curve at their base, all bending in the same direction. They were planted around 1930. Nobody left a record of why they look the way they do. #CrookedForest #Poland #NatureMystery #BizarreWorld #UnbelievableFacts
@fediboard-mix.bsky.socialeconopass.com · Marco Bellinari
In a forest in northwestern Poland, roughly 400 pine trees grow with a sharp curve at their base, all bending in the same direction. They were planted around 1930. Nobody left a record of why …
#crookedforest #poland #naturemystery #bizarreworld #unbelievablefacts
@fediboard-culture.bsky.socialeconopass.com · Marco Bellinari
In April 1979, people in a Soviet city began dying of a mysterious illness. The government said it was bad meat. It was not bad meat. The cover-up required an entire city to lie at once.
#sverdlovsk #anthrax #sovietunion #coldwar #bizarreworld #culture
@econopass.comTsutomu Yamaguchi survived Hiroshima on August 6. He was in Nagasaki on August 9. Both blasts. Both cities. One man. #Hiroshima #Nagasaki #AtomicBomb #BizarreWorld #UnbelievableFacts #Bluesky
@fediboard-culture.bsky.socialeconopass.com · Marco Bellinari
Tsutomu Yamaguchi survived Hiroshima on August 6. He was in Nagasaki on August 9. Both blasts. Both cities. One man.
#hiroshima #nagasaki #atomicbomb #bizarreworld #unbelievablefacts #culture
@econopass.comIceland had no army. It threatened to leave NATO. Britain had frigates. Iceland won three times.
https://econopass.com/cod-wars-iceland-uk-54-years-fish-iceland-won/
#CodWars #Iceland #BizarreWorld #WeirdHistory #UnbelievableFacts
@fediboard-mix.bsky.socialeconopass.com · Marco Bellinari
Iceland had no army. It threatened to leave NATO. Britain had frigates. Iceland won three times.
#codwars #iceland #bizarreworld #weirdhistory #unbelievablefacts
@econopass.comThe US government let people believe in aliens because the truth was classified. The planes were stranger than the fiction. #Area51 #ColdWar #UFO #ConspiracyFacts #BizarreWorld #Bluesky
@fediboard-mix.bsky.socialeconopass.com · Marco Bellinari
The US government let people believe in aliens because the truth was classified. The planes were stranger than the fiction.
@econopass.comIt took 182 years and 7 architects, none of whom saw it finished. Then it burned in 2019 and was rebuilt in 5. years. #NotreDame #Paris #MedievalHistory #BizarreWorld #HistoricalFacts
@fediboard-culture.bsky.socialeconopass.com · Marco Bellinari
It took 182 years and 7 architects, none of whom saw it finished. Then it burned in 2019 and was rebuilt in 5.
#notredame #paris #culture #medievalhistory #bizarreworld #historicalfacts
@econopass.comOxford was 332 years old when the Aztec Empire was founded. Students were taking exams while Tenochtitlan was being built. #OxfordUniversity #AztecEmpire #MedievalHistory #BizarreWorld #HistoricalFacts
@fediboard-culture.bsky.socialeconopass.com · Marco Bellinari
In 1096, someone in a small English market town began teaching. We do not know their name. We do not know exactly what they taught, or how many …
#oxforduniversity #culture #aztecempire #medievalhistory #bizarreworld #historicalfacts
@econopass.comSaudi Arabia banned the sale of cats and dogs as pets and prohibited walking them in public. The reason given by the religious police: young men were…
https://econopass.com/saudi-arabia-cat-law-flirting/
#SaudiArabia #WeirdLaws #Cats #Islam #BizarreWorld #Trending #Bluesky
@fediboard-mix.bsky.socialeconopass.com · Marco Bellinari
Before we get to the law, let me tell you what the law is not about. It is not about animal welfare. It is not about religious impurity. It is not …
@econopass.comCleopatra is closer in time to Pizza Hut than to the Great Pyramid. Ancient history has its own ancient history. #Cleopatra #AncientHistory #TimePerspective #BizarreWorld #HistoricalFacts
@fediboard-mix.bsky.socialeconopass.com · Marco Bellinari
Here is a sentence that will rearrange something in your brain, and once it has rearranged it, you will not be able to put it back. Cleopatra lived …
#cleopatra #ancienthistory #timeperspective #bizarreworld #historicalfacts
@econopass.comThe sun does not set for two months. The locals sleep fine. Tourists lose their minds. The difference is not biological #MidnightSun #Norway #ArcticLife #Tromsø #BizarreWorld #Trending
@fediboard-mix.bsky.socialeconopass.com · Marco Bellinari
It is 2am in Tromsø, Norway. The sun is shining. It has been shining since May 20th. It will not set again until July 22nd. Right now, somewhere in …
#midnightsun #norway #arcticlife #troms #bizarreworld #trending
@econopass.comOn a hot July afternoon in Paris, the Eiffel Tower is not where it was in January. It is taller. And it is leaning. #StrangerThanFiction #BizarreWorld #EiffelTower #UnbelievableFacts #ScienceFacts #Paris