The giant oak chair of Dartmoor

Wednesday, 17 September 2008, 21:36 | Category : Crumbs, Curiosities
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I never knew it even existed and now they’re going to demolish it :-/ The facebook campaign to help stop them from demolishing it is here (it has many more nice photos).

The world’s shortest man meets the woman with the world’s longest legs

Tuesday, 16 September 2008, 20:05 | Category : Crumbs, Curiosities
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An interesting meeting, don’t you think? ;) He is 74.61cm and her legs are 132cm.

The Dance of Death

Saturday, 13 September 2008, 2:46 | Category : Crumbs, Curiosities
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By the 16th century there had been as many as 11 dancing epidemics in Europe. People would feel an irresistible urge to dance that eventually led them to dance themselves to death. The causes of this remain unknown. The best documented of these was the last one, in mid-July, 1518.