Magna Carta was signed on June 15, 1215: history, quotes, Horrible Histories and Monty Python explanations. Related, Mark Steyn’s “The Field Where Liberty Was Sown,” on re-learning those lessons.
How did nuts and bananas come to mean “crazy”?
Secret Rooms Inside the World’s Most Famous Landmarks.
For Father’s Day, a selection of parenting advice from Homer Simpson: “Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try.” Related: here are some Father’s Day lessons from Walter White, Don Draper, and Tywin Lannister, and one of my favorite Dad stories (this last link has NSFW-language).
How the West Was Wired: before telephone-company wiring was ubiquitous, isolated Great Plains farmers used barbed-wire fences to transmit telephone calls.
Before Camping Got Wimpy: Roughing It With the Victorians.
ICYMI, Tuesday’s links are here, and include how to email a cat, Anne Frank’s birthday (including a video tour of the annex where her family hid for two years prior to their arrest), weeding fields with flamethrowers, and that time the U.S. Postal Service tried delivering mail by missile.