AngloFacts Explorers

10/23/2023

10/22/2023

The Abecedarians were a religious group from the 16th century who rejected all forms of learning, including theology, on the belief that God would provide them with enlightenment and that learning would only interfere.

10/22/2023

Imhotep was an Egyptian architect, physician, and advisor to four pharaohs. He lived around 2667-2600 B.C. Imhotep practiced early medicine nearly 2200 years before Hippocrates and designed Djoser’s step pyramid at Saqqara. He is the only Egyptian besides Amenhotep to ever be fully deified.

10/21/2023

There exists a Victorian leech-powered machine which was invented to predict the weather. The Tempest Prognosticator was made up of 12 glass bottles filled with water, each with a live leech inside. The inventor referred to the leeches as his "jury of philosophical councillors" and if they climbed up the bottles and out of the water, a bell would ring to signal that a storm was coming.

10/20/2023

In 1916, a miscalculation of Montana's population led to 40,000 men being drafted into World War I, which at that time was 10% of the state's population.

10/17/2023

Franklin D. Roosevelt was 39 years old when he contracted "infantile paralysis," the contemporary name for polio.

10/17/2023

10/17/2023

10/16/2023

Eddie Van Halen actually started out playing the drums. He bought a drum set and his brother bought a guitar. When his brother got better at the drums than him, Eddie said: "OK, fu*k you, I'll play your guitar."