The following sources were consulted in the preparation of the article “14 bizarre moments in history that will leave you completely scratching your head.”
- May 19, 1780: Darkness at Noon Enshrouds New England
- St Scholastica’s Day Riot, Oxford, 1354/5
- October 19, 1925: Border Incident Near Petrich Leads to Greek Incursion Into Bulgarian Territory
- The day a bus jumped over Tower Bridge
- Operation Paul Bunyan
- The Affair of the Sausages and Religious Freedom
- The story of the iconic Soviet general and the secret order for a special kind of Coca-Cola
- We still don’t know what caused the ‘Great Sheep Panic’ of 1888
- The Death of Louis Slotin
- When Niagara Falls Ran Dry
- Faux Paris, 1918
- The Four Pests campaign and China’s Great Famine
- The Astor Place riot: Shakespeare as a flashpoint for class conflict in 1849
- Putting out the Fire: 50 Years of Science to Protect America’s Water
