Here's a WWI-era advert for whale steaks. As Bruce Sterling notes, "There's heaps of whale meat here in the First World War. So much we can't swallow it all. Cheaper than tuna."
Whale steak ad
The novelist who co-founded the Paris Review was a CIA spy
The Paris Review was partly a CIA front, and one of its founders led a double life to match. In the London Review of Books, Christian Lorentzen reviews a new… READ THE REST
A 1631 Bible accidentally ordered readers to commit adultery
The Wicked Bible is a 1631 reprint of the King James Bible that accidentally ordered its readers to sin. Setting the Ten Commandments, London's royal printers dropped the word "not"… READ THE REST
Castro's supercow got a state obituary and a marble statue
On a single day in January 1982, a Cuban cow named Ubre Blanca ("White Udder") produced 109.5 liters of milk — "more than four times a typical cow's production," according… READ THE REST
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