Vili Fualaau is best known as the former student and ex-husband of sex offender Mary Kay Letourneau — but his story doesn't end there.ABC NewsVili Fualaau, Mary Kay Letourneau, and Barbara Walters during an interview in 2015.
When Vili Fualaau was 12 years old, he bet his cousin $20 that he could seduce his teacher, Mary Kay Letourneau. But what started as a joke quickly became more serious. Shortly before Vili’s 13th birthday, the 34-year-old Letourneau kissed him — and she didn’t stop there. Read More...
There's been great debate about the role of shieldmaidens in Viking culture — namely, whether they existed in the first place. Wikimedia CommonsA depiction of the death of a shieldmaiden.
The word “Viking” usually conjures up images of burly, bearded, blond men wielding double-handed axes. In a culture so closely associated with violence and bloodshed (the Viking version of heaven is an endless battle where the slaughtered are pieced back together to feast before doing it all again the next day), it is no surprise that even the women — or shieldmaidens — have come down through history as fierce warriors. Read More...
Medieval people drank almond milk before it was trendy.Wikimedia Commons
In a time before licensed dietitians and Instagram-famous fitness-gurus, there was the Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum, a poetic scripture that doctors designed for English royals. It served as one of the most popular European feeding guides for nearly six centuries and included odd antidotes for various maladies, such as using leeks to increase fertility or to stop nosebleeds, depending on exactly what you were dealing with at the moment. Read More...
