This Week’s Curated Clickbait
Explore this collection of events from the past and gems found around the Internet.
Here’s this week collection of interesting tidbits and new developments in the world—curated to help you avoid the not-so-interesting stuff (and no affiliate links or gotchas, so click on whatever piques your interest).
Just in time for your upcoming gift-giving, here’s some very unique wrapping paper!
And, following that theme, if you’d like to carry a baguette in something that resembles a handbag, you’re now in luck. For the Swedish readers here, hats off to you!
For a look back (I do write historical fiction, after all), here are some interesting tidbits of things that happened in past years this week, with facts courtesy of history.com.
On July 10, 1850, Vice President Millard Fillmore is sworn in as the 13th president of the United States. President Zachary Taylor had died the day before, five days after falling ill with a severe intestinal ailment on the Fourth of July.
Lady Jane Grey begins her nine-day reign as Queen of England, the shortest stint for a British monarch in history. Her Catholic cousin Mary deposed her, tried her for treason and, after initially letting her live, had her beheaded.
For more entries on what happened this day in history, view this collection as well.
For those of you who are old enough to remember the Jaws movie (it was 50 years ago—shocking!), let’s take a look at how sharks fare today.
And there we have it, folks!
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