About us

Most Interesting Things is a small, independent, award-winning, and award-losing project dedicated to the dissemination of fascinating-yet-obscure true stories from science, history, and psychology.

Most Interesting Things is a site for curious people who want to know more about what they saw on the news or read in history books.

It’s for people with an appetite for the weird, the fascinating, and even the macabre facts about important events that shaped human history and continue to resonate to this day.

Our content is informative and entertaining the day it’s published while still being relevant and insightful months later. We aim to give you something worth sharing not only on social media but in everyday conversations, wherever they take place.