Welcome to Erin Mankie's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm

and Mild.

Our world is full of the unexplainable, and if history is an open book, all of these

amazing tales are right there on display, just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

For all of recorded history, humans have looked to the sky for answers to our most important

questions.

What time is it?

What's the weather like?

What is humanity's place in the universe?

That last one is a bit tougher to answer, but the point is, as largely Earth-bound creatures,

people have always been fascinated by the mysteries of space, and that certainly was the

case in May of 1910 when Halley's comet was hurtling towards Earth.

Now if you're not familiar, Halley's comet is a regular visitor to our solar system,

passing by Earth once every 75 years or so, but we didn't always know that.

Records about a fiery ball shooting through the sky can be found as far back as ancient

Babylon.

However, it wasn't until 1705 that British mathematician Edmund Halley realized that we

were looking at the same comet every three-quarters of a century, and now that comet's named

after him.

But there's something else that you should know about Edmund Halley.

He didn't think the comet came just because.

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