Weird Universe

1949: Wealthy investor Ferris Booth ran full-page ads in major newspapers urging President Truman to accept that "God is the only defense against the atomic bomb."

Booth noted that "Atomic power has always existed in the universe, and did no apparent harm, until man started minding God's business."

But Booth wasn't simply trying to boos...

Doral cigarettes as Frankenstein's monster.

Look magazine - July 13, 1971

May 1976: Doctors at New York Medical College-Metropolitan Hospital Center reported the case of a man who, over the course of 11 years, had eaten 648 metallic objects that had accumulated within his stomach. Remarkably, he "remained free of complications and maintained his appetite and good nutrition."

The doctors noted that their patient's case had...

Socrates Scholfield's 1914 patent claimed to offer "evidences of the existence and attributes of the Supreme Being... by means of schematic mechanical devices."

I tried reading his patent but bailed out before understanding exactly how his interlocking spring ga...