Curious: Art Book

A book of 50 curious things

and art inspired by each.

Available for $15

Mary Toft gave birth

to rabbits.

The Great Stink was

an event in 1858 when

London was very stinky.

The color spectrum is

ROYGBIV.

Where is magenta?

Only in your head.

The smartest people are fleeing

to the Moon and Mars.

Just a hoax, presumably.

An Elvis Taxon is where a

category is believed extinct,

later misidentified as non-extinct

but was dead all along.

According to UPC Barcodes

all books are from the

country "Bookland".

A psychiatric disorder:

the belief you are made of glass.

King Charles IV of France had it.

Defenestrate (verb)

1. Throw someone out a window.

They kept doing it in Prague.

Scientists confirm:

the Universe is one big latte.

Be careful when you laugh.

Chrys of Soli died after

after laughing too hard

over a donkey eating a fig.

The past's future

but not the one we're in.

Ceshire Cat predates

Alice in Wonderland.

The cats grin because

Ceshire is famous for dairy.

In the Balkans

even the fruit

are vampires.

German Chocolate Cake

is not from Germany.

Named after the baker

Samuel German.

10000000000000

666

00000000000001

is a prime number.

Named after evil Belphegor.

A fictional psychoactive substance

Could it be real?

Only one way to find out...

3.5-inch sculpture

Secretly placed on the moon

by the Apollo 15 crew in 1971.

Physicists

oversimplify

cows.

17 foot tall banana-lamb hybrid

Liverpool's main exports:

1. Lambs

2. Bananas

They shoot bubbles at 60mph

The bubbles are so loud that they

interfere with anti-submarine warfare