A STATE OF THE ART
Did a remote Zambian town make a name for itself in the Victorian art world? When it comes to important figures in the...
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¿ DECIDE FOR YOURSELF ?
This is the Yes or BS blog, where you can play the game for yourself. Either pick a random story from the pictures below, or choose your specialist subject from the categories listed here. Just read the story through and decide whether, YES, you think it’s true, or no, you think it’s total B.S—then click you answer in the box at the bottom of each post to see if you’re correct.
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BIG BIRD
Was the biggest penguin that ever lived really 2 metres tall? The world’s largest living species of penguin—and, indeed, one of the...
HOT STUFF!
Did an ancient King of Persia entertain his dinner guests with asbestos napkins? You finish a lovely meal, swig down the last of your...
DIRECT MESSAGES
Did the Incan Empire have a system of ultra-marathon running messengers? At its greatest extent, the Incan Empire stretched down almost...
BLANK SPACE
Did Ethel Merman deal with her short-lived marriage by including a blank page in her autobiography? Remember when Britney Spears and...
HAIL FELLOW
In March 1707, midway through morning mass in the parish church of St Coultha, a tiny village near Stornaway in Scotland’s Western Isles,...
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