Scots, wha hae — Happy Burns Day! Here’s a bio of Scotland’s “prince of poets” Robert Burns, plus Braveheart, Burns Supper instructions, and lots of haggis.
How a Group of Bootleggers Created NASCAR.
Identical twins send samples to 5 DNA ancestry companies, get some odd results.
This weekend — January 26th is Australia Day, and on January 27, 1945, the Soviet Army liberated Auschwitz.
A surprising number of people have operated on themselves.
My new favorite conspiracy theory.
ICYMI, Thursday’s links are here, and include kite-drawn carriages from 1822, the history of the master bathroom, milking scorpions by hand, and a Bill of Mortality showing the deaths in London for the week of Aug 15 – 22, 1665.