Category: What Day
It wasn’t usually sweet; it didn’t melt in the mouth, and it sometimes came mixed with human blood. The history of chocolate is as bitter as the Aztec’s original …
Kissing may have come from mothers chewing food and forcing it into babies’ mouths. Source Anthropologists can’t get to first base with the origin of kissing. It may have …
On June 12th, 1817, a German inventor took a spin around Mannheim on his dandyhorse. Local aristocrat Baron Karl von Drais managed a 14km trip in less than an hour. …
What if Superman had been raised in the Soviet Union? In Red Son, Superman’s an idealistic young farm-boy from the Ukraine who believes in the goodness of communism. Because of …
Luxemburgers have been hopping for 500 years in honor of a British saint. The Hopping Procession is Europe’s largest traditional dancing procession. Every Whit Tuesday, some 12,000 hoppers merge …
Some tulip bulb varieties were, briefly, the most expensive objects in the world in 1637. According to Charles Mackay, tulip mania swept the entire nation in the 1600’s: “The …
The hole in the doughnut is often credited to Hanson Crockett Gregory, a 19th century New England sailor. Gregory’s mother Elizabeth regularly made doughnuts for him and his crew to enjoy …
Placing living Russian brown frogs in milk to keep it fresh led to a big leap in antibiotics. This ancient practice in Russia and Finland often worked. Frog skin’s …
Nicaragua took the English Maypole tree and ribbons and added steamy Caribbean dancing. Dirty Display of dirty dancing In Bluefields, Nicaragua, people agree, “Maypole is not what it used to be.” …
The lack of $50,000 may have kept a West Virginian dentist, Mahlon Loomis, from developing a radio system twenty years before Marconi. Congress refused to give Mahlon Loomis financial aid. Many …
Cheese Rolling Race, Gloucester, England. So many villages must be missing their idiots today. Young men chase a cheese off a cliff and tumble 200 yards to the bottom. …
Hunting the Earl of Rone was banned in 1837, for licentiousness and drunken behavior. I blame the incredibly trippy hobby horse. Luckily, the bizarre custom was revived in 1974. …
