Bob Geldof gets a bad press these days, but the guy will always be cool asf to me. At just 33 and through sheer force of will he decided to highlight the famine taking place in Ethiopia and raise a fuck-ton of money to help. Watch this. 👇🏻 www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Why is through pronounced ‘throo’ but rough is ‘ruff’? English: where spelling and pronunciation argue daily. 👇🏽 www.utterlyinteresting.com/post/why-eng...

Singer-songwriter #BillieHoliday (1915 – 1959) shares a tender moment with her beloved dog, Pepi, backstage at Sugar Hill nightclub in Newark, New Jersey (April 1957), photographed by Jerry Dantzic. A heart-wrenching piece from @dannydutch.bsky.social: www.dannydutch.com/post/the-lon...

In the 1930s, Floreana Island in the Galapagos became home to German idealists, a fake baroness, and rising tensions. Then came vanishing settlers, a mummified body, and a mysterious death. One of the strangest unsolved island mysteries. 👇🏼 www.dannydutch.com/post/paradis...

Steel, scars, and student honour. Explore the centuries-old German tradition of Mensur, a ritualised sword-fighting practice rooted in university life, and cultural identity. From medieval origins to modern revival, it's genuinely fascinating. 👇🏼 www.dannydutch.com/post/mensur-...

He charmed the Prince of Wales,spent his time parting the wealthy in Manhattan from their jewels. He escaped prison with a birthday cake and laundry ammonia. Meet Arthur Barry, the most polite criminal of the 1920s. 👇🏼 www.dannydutch.com/post/arthur-...

The Plus Four Wristlet Route Indicator, a British product from the 1920s, is a scroll-map navigator in the shape of a watch. It came with tiny interchangeable instructions that you scrolled manually to see which roads to take when driving. 👇🏼 www.dannydutch.com/post/before-...

Meet Jeffrey Manchester: he robbed McDonald’s from the roof, lived in Toys R Us behind the bikes, and charmed everyone while on the run. Polite, patient and just a bit bonkers. 👇🏽 www.dannydutch.com/post/the-cur...

Born this day in 1912: Alan Turing. Father of modern computing and codebreaker who helped end WWII. Britain thanked him with chemical castration and a criminal conviction for being gay. 👇🏽 www.dannydutch.com/post/alantur...

Remembering Jonas Salk, the man credited with the creation of the Polio vaccine who died on this day in 1995. When asked who owned the patent for the vaccine, he famously replied: “Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?” 👇🏽 www.dannydutch.com/post/how-jon...

Did you know that "Lord of the Flies" almost didn't make it to our bookshelves? It was passed over so many times! 👇🏽 www.dannydutch.com/post/lord-of...

On this day in 1982, 'God's Banker' Roberto Calvi was found hanging under Blackfriars Bridge in London, pockets stuffed with bricks and cash. It was initially ruled a suicide. 👇🏽 www.dannydutch.com/post/the-mys...

The day Hustler founder, Larry Flynt was shot by a white supremacist because he had printed pictures of interracial couples in his magazine. 👇🏽 www.dannydutch.com/post/the-att...

Why did medieval artists paint baby Jesus with the face of your grumpy uncle? Apparently it was supposed to symbolise divine wisdom and maturity. 👇🏽 www.dannydutch.com/post/why-bab...

In 1958, the Lumbee Tribe turned the tables on the KKK in North Carolina. Known as the Battle of Hayes Pond, hundreds of local men, many armed and some war veterans, surrounded a Ku Klux Klan rally and forced the Klansmen to flee into the dark swamps. 👇🏼 www.dannydutch.com/post/the-bat...

'May I have the pleasure of seeing you home?' The 'flirtation cards' 19th-century men used to woo ladies (but they had to be returned if she wasn't interested) 👇🏼 www.dannydutch.com/post/flirtat...

14 April 1994: Seven tobacco CEOs swore under oath to Congress that nicotine wasn’t addictive. Internal papers proved they not only knew how addictive tobacco is, but had approved a modified strain of tobacco named Y1 that produced higher nicotine levels. 👇🏼 www.dannydutch.com/post/the-day...

In 1991 a historic concert took place in Moscow to an estimated crowd of 1.6m people. This concert, part of the “Monsters of Rock” festival, happened a few months before the official dissolution of the Soviet Union. 👇🏼 www.dannydutch.com/post/metal-i...

This is a gallery of the Empire State Building being built, focusing on the guys that worked with next to no safety equipment a quarter of a mile in the sky. 👇🏽 www.dannydutch.com/post/the-men...

On this day in 68, Roman Emperor Nero commited suicide. In order to avoid being dragged through the streets of Rome and being beaten to death, he begged his secretary Epaphroditos to slit his throat. Epaphroditos refused. 👇🏽 www.dannydutch.com/post/the-dea...

Mark McCloud’s Institute of Illegal Images contains over 33,000 hits of LSD, brilliant exampes of psychedelic art on little square pieces of blotting paper. I love things like this. 👇🏼 www.dannydutch.com/post/the-lsd...

A collection of 26 death masks from people throughout history. Some well known, others less well known. 👇🏼 www.dannydutch.com/post/c-1321-...

As an aid to help people quit smoking, Puzant Torigian launched 'Bravo'—lettuce-based cigarettes. After testing 200 plants, he filed a patent in 1960 and by 1965 was producing 90,000 packs a month. A strange but sincere chapter in the war on tobacco. 👇🏼 www.dannydutch.com/post/bravo-l...

During WWII, nearly 1,000 Polish children were deported to Siberian gulags. Starving and displaced, they found refuge in India, welcomed by Maharaja Jam Saheb of Nawanagar, who built them a home, gave them schooling, and treated them as his own. 👇🏽 www.dannydutch.com/post/during-...

See the 1906 San Francisco earthquake through the lenses of Genthe, Lawrence, Worden & Jack London. Their photos reveal a city 80% destroyed, $400M in damage, 3,000+ lives lost. 👇🏽 www.dannydutch.com/post/photogr...

On this day in 2008, Jodi Arias took a photo of Travis Alexander in the shower, moments before stabbing him 27 times and shooting him. She claimed self-defence. A jury called it cold-blooded murder. 👇🏽 www.dannydutch.com/post/a-bruta...

On this day 1986, Paul Simon & Chevy Chase record the video for the hit song ‘You Can Call Me Al’. 🎶🎶

On this day in 1985, serial killer Leonard Lake was arrested. He and his accomplice Charles Ng kidnapped, raped, and murdered up to 25 victims. Hours later, Lake died by suicide after swallowing cyanide hidden in his clothes. 👇🏽 www.dannydutch.com/post/leonard...

On this day in 1921, the Tulsa Race Massacre began. White mobs, some deputised by officials, attacked Black residents, killing up to 300, injuring 800+, and destroying 35+ blocks of Greenwood, known as Black Wall Street. Over 1,200 homes were burned. 👇🏼 www.dannydutch.com/post/the-tul...

It might be slightly controversial, but I think The Doors’ L.A. Woman was their finest hour. It was the perfect album to end things on. Funky, Blusey mistake ridden, Morrison recorded his vocals on the toilet, brilliant. 👇🏼 www.dannydutch.com/post/l-a-wom...

Before Kodachrome or Instagram filters, the Lumière brothers invented a dreamy way to capture colour photos, using dyed potato starch. This is the story of Autochrome, the world’s first popular colour photography. Beautiful stuff. 👇🏼 www.dannydutch.com/post/colour-...

James Bond creator, Ian Fleming had it written into his contract at The London Times newspaper that he would spend 2 months each year in Jamaica. It was during these breaks that he decided to turn his hand to writing books, working for 3 hours each day. 👇🏽 www.dannydutch.com/post/ian-fle...

This monk lived for 82 years and died without ever seeing a woman. There's a photo floating around that people claim to be of him, but it isn't. 👇🏼 www.dannydutch.com/post/the-mon...

She posed for photos in the desert, trusting her photographer. Hours later, she was dead. Shari Miller’s final modelling shoot was orchestrated by her killer, and 54 other women appeared in his photos too. 👇🏼 www.dannydutch.com/post/the-pho...

At the age of 33, future Apprentice host, Donald Trump, threw 74-year-old widow, Mary Filan, who had just recently suffered a stroke out of her Queens apartment in an attempt to make more money off the unit with a different tenant. 👇🏼 www.dannydutch.com/post/the-evi...

🦈“The shark didn’t let go until its belly scraped the sand.” In 1916, five shark attacks in 12 days turned the Jersey Shore into a scene of terror. These are the real-life events that inspired Jaws 👇🏼 www.dannydutch.com/post/the-sum...

Paris once had a village of treehouse taverns. Roast chicken, wine, and rope pulleys in the branches, welcome to the lost world of Les Guinguettes de Robinson. 🌳🥂 👇🏼 www.dannydutch.com/post/the-for...

In 2008, librarian Herbert Mitchell left the Met Museum a trove of 19th-century photos, including images of men in intimate poses, but he left zero context about the photos. They're brilliant! 👇🏽 www.dannydutch.com/post/the-int...

When the theme park Dickens World closed it's doors in 2016 it lost investors £32m. It had been losing between £500k-£1m every year! A Charles Dickens theme park would fair better these days I think, if in a better location. 👇🏽 www.dannydutch.com/post/dickens...

On this day in 1924, 14 year old Robert Franks was kidnapped and murdered at the hands of two young wealthy college students, who were motivated by hoping to prove to the world how superior their intellect was that they could get away with murder. 👇🏼 www.dannydutch.com/post/the-tra...

Diane Downs shot her 3 children on this day in 1983. She had staged a carjacking and shot eight-year-old Christie, seven-year-old Cheryl, and three-year-old Danny. Cheryl died — Christie and Danny survived with life-altering injuries. 👇🏼 www.dannydutch.com/post/the-chi...

On this day in 1927, a disgruntled school board treasurer turned mass murderer when he blew up a school in a quiet Michigan town. The attack killed 38 children and 6 adults and injured at least 58 other people. 👇🏼 www.dannydutch.com/post/the-bat...

In 1927, 5-year-old Vertus Hardiman was among 10 black children taken to hospital for ringworm. Instead, what they got was high-dose radiation The wound never healed for Vertus, and he lived his life in constant pain. 👇🏼 www.dannydutch.com/post/the-hid...

In 1993, 13 yr-old Eric Smith brutally murdered four-year-old Derrick Robie in Savona, New York. He was tried as an adult and sentenced to 9 years to life, later being released in 2022 and now lives in Queens. 👇🏼 www.dannydutch.com/post/the-kil...

Spend some time with the man that made his living from hitting drums like they owed him money, John Bonham from Led Zeppelin. His 15 minute Moby Dick solo is off he scale. 👇🏼 www.dannydutch.com/post/john-bo...

Snake-charmer. Showgirl. Gender-bending icon. Meet Zorita — the burlesque queen who danced with boa constrictors and dazzled crowds in a half-man, half-woman costume. 👇🏼 www.dannydutch.com/post/zorita-...

In 1932, Paul Strand travelled through Mexico photographing churches, people, and rural life. His images became The Mexican Portfolio, printed using platinum and photogravure techniques. I think they're beautiful. 👇🏼 www.dannydutch.com/post/through...

She looked like any other Russian grandmother, but Tamara Samsonova kept a diary detailing how she drugged, dismembered, and possibly ate her victims. Convicted of 2 murders, she was suspected of killing at least 14. 👇🏼 www.dannydutch.com/post/the-chi...

Musician Daryl Davies has spent over 30 years befriending Klansmen and convincing them to turn their back on the organisation. He says over 200 Klansmen have given up their robes after talking with him. He stores the robes in his house. 👇🏼 www.dannydutch.com/post/daryl-d...