UtterlyInteresting @UtterlyInterest

We dig through the past so you don’t have to. Expect weird, wonderful, and utterly interesting stories. (Born at 336 ppm) utterlyinteresting.com/blog United Kingdom Joined February 2009

Tweets

106K
Followers

48K
Following

3K
Likes

42K

UtterlyInteresting @UtterlyInterest

10 hours ago

Arias was convicted by the jury of first-degree murder. If you're that way inclined, I've linked to the autopsy images below. How she could claim self-defence is mind boggling. 👇🏽 utterlyinteresting.com/post/a-brutal-…

0 0 0 532 0

View Details

UtterlyInteresting @UtterlyInterest

10 hours ago

This is the last photo of Travis Alexander, taken in the shower moments before he was murdered by Jodi Arias on this day in 2008. Travis sustained 27 stab wounds, a slit throat and a single gunshot wound to the forehead. Arias testified that she killed him in self-defence.

1 0 1 829 1

View Details

UtterlyInteresting @UtterlyInterest

11 hours ago

Photographed on Brighton Palace Pier by Ikrah Ahmed moments before disaster.

0 0 10 430 0

View Details

UtterlyInteresting @UtterlyInterest

13 hours ago

And for the younger readers, here's a quick rundown of what transpired on the day of the #TiananmenSquareMassacre and how it happened. 👇🏽 utterlyinteresting.com/post/tiananmen… (Unless you're reading this in China, when nothing happened)

0 1 4 286 0

View Details

UtterlyInteresting @UtterlyInterest

13 hours ago

Although, according to the Chinese government nothing of note happened on this street in Tiananmen Square between the 15 April and the 4th of June, 1989. There were absolutely no innocent people killed after Martial Law was declared and the army sent in. Nothing happened…

1 1 4 554 0

View Details

UtterlyInteresting @UtterlyInterest

13 hours ago

On this day in 1989 Chinese troops clear Tiananmen Square of student protesters. 1,000 are killed. Chinese filmmaker Liu Wei asks students in #Beijing what day it is, 26 years after the massacre, the results are sad but aren't surprising. 一天要记住

2 2 7 983 1

View Details

UtterlyInteresting @UtterlyInterest

a day ago

@CaffJackson Honest answer? God knows.

0 0 0 5 0

View Details

UtterlyInteresting @UtterlyInterest

2 days ago

In 1923, naturopath Benedict Lust published The Blood-Washing Method — a hydrotherapy routine with strangely detailed instructions on where, how, and how long to direct the shower. Source: Benedict Lust, The Blood-Washing Method, 1923

1 1 7 687 0

View Details

UtterlyInteresting @UtterlyInterest

a day ago

Fellini once said about Ekberg, "I had never seen anyone like her. The luminous colour of her skin, her clear ice-blue eyes, golden hair, exuberance, joie de vivre, made her into a grandiose creature.” 👇🏼 utterlyinteresting.com/post/anita-ekb…

0 0 1 628 0

View Details

UtterlyInteresting @UtterlyInterest

a day ago

Anita Ekberg photographed in her devil Halloween costume, 1955. The costume was for the Art Students League Dream Ball at the Hotel Commodore in New York.

1 29 328 8K 60

View Details

UtterlyInteresting @UtterlyInterest

2 days ago

Michelle Phillips of the Mamas and the Papas on Harrison Ford in 1977

0 1 7 873 1

View Details

UtterlyInteresting @UtterlyInterest

2 days ago

Roger Waters / Eddie Vedder performing Comfortably Numb at the Sandy Relief Concert New York 12/12/12. Vedder starts around the 1 minute mark.

0 0 6 2K 1

View Details

UtterlyInteresting @UtterlyInterest

2 days ago

He was shot in his spleen, stomach, liver, esophagus, and lungs. utterlyinteresting.com/post/the-day-a…

0 2 14 13K 7

View Details

UtterlyInteresting @UtterlyInterest

2 days ago

On this day in 1968 Valerie Solanas shot Andy Warhol in NYC. She believed that he wanted to steal her work: a play called Up Your Ass. She also wrote the SCUM Manifesto (Society For Cutting Up Men). Richard Avedon photographed Warhol's extensive post surgery scars a year later.

9 60 696 182K 172

View Details

UtterlyInteresting @UtterlyInterest

3 days ago

The gunpowder alarm clock - waking up to the sound of a gunshot. You can watch it in operation in this video from the British Museum: youtube.com/shorts/a4KpYyZ…

0 1 3 603 1

View Details

UtterlyInteresting @UtterlyInterest

3 days ago

It's a dictionary of Victorian slang covering three main types of informal language: everyday street slang used across all social classes. Well worth a look 👇🏽 utterlyinteresting.com/post/victorian…

0 1 3 464 1

View Details

UtterlyInteresting @UtterlyInterest

3 days ago

In 1865, John Camden Hotten decided to catalogue the coded street language of Victorian London, from criminal cant to the costermongers' secret tongue. This is one example of the 'Rhyming Slang' pages.