July 2019 - Page 4 of 6 - Curious Links

10 Fragrant Facts About Perfume

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(via Listverse) Smell is most ephemeral of senses. We can easily imagine how the past looked, but rarely do we

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(via Mid-century menu) You know you’d want to try the flavor of 1918 – Coffee.

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(via Mental Floss) The oceans cover over 70 percent of our planet, so it’s little wonder that their seemingly impenetrable

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(via mental_floss) Each year, in America alone, millions of people visit art museums—bringing with them millions of opportunities to damage

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(via Smithsonian) How the world’s most popular invisible instrument became such a hit.

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(via Listverse) The vast majority of castles these days are little more than ruins preserved by charitable organizations for educational

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(via Smithsonian) The hugely successful game, patented 50 years ago this week, had its critics at first.

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(via Listverse) For millennia, we’ve been using swords to settle heated debates, as what is war but a debate that

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(via Atlas Obscura) If the walls of the former Centralia High School in Illinois could talk, they’d probably tell us

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(via Smithsonian) Stricken with polio as an adult, William Taylor retired from the military and joined NASA’s ingenious design team.

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(via Listverse) Not every sound we hear around us is what we think it is. Some are created specifically to

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(via Mental Floss) The life and work of Frida Kahlo—one of Mexico’s greatest painters—were both defined by pain and perseverance.