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October 30, 1937: Couple wed a month find they're brother and sister.

@plyons45 "It's good being Pope" - John XII (probably)

@UtterlyInterest He was some lad

Pope John XII became head of the Catholic Church at 18. By the end of his reign he'd been charged with: • Incest • Murder • Invoking pagan gods • Consecrating a 10-year-old as a bishop • Turning the Vatican into a brothel 👇🏽 utterlyinteresting.com/post/the-depra…

@plyons45 Way too much to fit into a Twitter post!

@UtterlyInterest And whit ?

A Duke who built 15 miles of secret tunnels to avoid people. An MP who inspired Ebenezer Scrooge and ate food he'd wrestled from a rat. A Marquess who spent £12m/yr on costumes. Britain's eccentrics are something else! There's lots more too👇🏽 utterlyinteresting.com/post/britain-s…

Amy Winehouse photographed on June 18, 2011 at the Kalemegdan Fortress in Belgrade, Serbia. This was her last performance, she was booed off the stage and died a few weeks later on July 23. Camden still misses her - utterlyinteresting.com/post/amy-wineh…

@dafyddmorgan It’s nice to see though.

Things I wasn’t expecting in the first plenary of the new Senedd… A reference to Lord of the Rings

@monstroso Don't give the scumbag air.

Toby Young as ever capturing the public mood.

US Army Nurses with the 42nd Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) clad in their bikinis and carrying their M16A2 rifles, while enjoying the beaches of Mogadishu, Somalia. Operation Restore Hope, 1993.

Just a handy reminder that it wasn't easy being an infant in 18th century London.

A Jaguar going after its prey underwater. Photographed by Herbert van der Beek

A SS judge investigated Oskar Dirlewanger for murder, rape, and torture, instead he got promoted. His unit killed over 120,000 civilians in Belarus. In Warsaw, between 30,000 to 50,000 in a matter of weeks. Oskar Dirlewanger was a man even the SS feared. utterlyinteresting.com/post/oskar-dir…

The Chinese rover Zhurong took a selfie of itself with its lander by dropping a separate detachable camera on the ground and drove back to pose. Zhrong has sat unmoving and unresponsive on Mars since 2022, when one of the planet's infamous dust storms hit.

The coldest place on Earth looks unreal.

Published in the Wageworker, Lincoln, Nebraska, September 13, 1907.

In 1961 a former music hall comedian made a film about British women visiting a nudist camp for £3,000. Police had to manage the cinema queues and it ran in London for two years. It also got around the censors by claiming it was an educational film... 👇🏼 utterlyinteresting.com/post/naked-as-…

@ky01426931 @FirstLadyNot

@FirstLadyNot The 5 mil as been cleared do keep up, hence no one is reporting him to be investigated it’s all been done 🥴🥴🥴

He did this for £80 Imagine what he’d do for 5 million

In 1969, Bob Guccione ran a full-page @nytimes ad with the @Playboy bunny in a rifle's crosshairs: "We're Going Rabbit Hunting." Nine months later, Playboy had pubic hair in it. The Pubic Wars had begun. Here's the full story of how it ended. - utterlyinteresting.com/post/the-pubic…

@USAP09 @WillHayCardiff

@UtterlyInterest @WillHayCardiff They’re the solicitors you want when you have some tricky litigation issues.

The two Green MSs in Wales right now are: - Anthony Slaughter - Paul Rock Rock and Slaughter is the 1980s cop duo we never knew we needed.