The Inventory

Pop culture obsessives writing for the pop culture obsessed.

Wiki WormholeWe explore some of Wikipedia’s oddities in our 5,664,405-week series, Wiki Wormhole.

Bi erasure is a problem on TV as in life, but one that's gradually improving

Meet the trans man who fought in the Civil War

6/16/19 10:00AM

Pulp fiction was cheap, salacious, and one of the only venues for lesbian love stories

6/09/19 10:00AM

This lawyer helped pioneer the gay rights movement in late-1800s Germany

6/02/19 10:00AM

Up and atom! This kid built his own nuclear reactor

5/26/19 10:00AM

When a nightmare becomes reality: These people committed murder in their sleep

5/19/19 10:00AM

Move over, Warby Parker, somebody made glasses for chickens

5/12/19 10:00AM

Dioramas can be murder!

5/05/19 10:00AM

Bah! Peppermint “humbugs” poisoned 200 people in 1850s Britain

4/28/19 10:00AM

In the past 50 years, one thing U.S. Senators have agreed on is candy—but barely

4/21/19 10:00AM

Before the Targaryens, there were medieval France’s Accursed Kings

4/14/19 12:00PM

In 1726, a woman convinced doctors she had given birth to rabbits

1985’s baseball season was scandalized by a coke-dealing parrot

3/31/19 10:00AM

A 1970s Canadian elementary school put out one of the best albums of 2001

3/24/19 10:00AM

This Queens factory became a monument to graffiti, then gentrification

History remembers these people, just not their names

3/10/19 10:00AM

These characters made a name for themselves by not having one

3/03/19 10:00AM

Turns out, the Man In the Iron Mask was a real guy

2/24/19 10:00AM

Oliver Cromwell’s head was buried 300 years after the rest of him

2/17/19 10:00AM

It turns out the Mona Lisa is just a Mona Lisa

2/10/19 10:00AM

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