Last month I posted five of my top stories and to see what happened and the experiment went well. Really well. I rejoiced that my story The Gorilla Who Was Brought up as a Boy in an English Village had gone viral. It has now had 61,000 reads. I also mentioned that it was probably my lifetime allotment of viral stories after having had a story – Here Is the Real Reason Why Photos Are Banned in the Sistine Chapel – go viral the month before.
So I cheered the gorilla-story success and posted another four stories. The following story was the one I had written straight after the gorilla tale and was called North Korean 105-floor ‘Hotel of Doom’ Deserted for 30 Years. About a week later, it went viral with 49,000 reads. I have no idea whether publicising them on this site contributed to that success but I am going to believe that it did. So here are five more. Please share!
Hay Fever Was Unknown Before the 19th century
Hay fever was unknown until John Bostock identified it in the early 1800s. Weirdly, hardly anyone suffered from it.
You Have a Lot More than Five Senses
People think we just have five senses. They are wrong. We have loads.
The Incredibly Polite Invasion of Iceland in 1940
To stop the Nazis getting a major foothold in the North Atlantic, the British invaded Iceland. But they did it very politely.
Real-life Lord of the Flies — what Happened When Six Boys Were Marooned for 15 months
The true story of a group of teens who got stranded on a Pacific island for over a year.
The European Who Became King of the Amazonian Headhunters
This is an amazing story. The first Caucasian to not be killed by the Amazonian Jibaros tribe became their king and ruled over an area about half the size of Spain.
There you go. Five stories. Hopefully, at least one of them will pique your interest.
