Month: December 2016
In 1974, a chocolate company had a simple problem: What to do with Easter Egg modules the rest of the year? The answer? Kinder surprise. Around 40 billion kinder …
The year 2017 isn’t coming as soon as you think. In fact, it will be exactly one second late. Or 2016 will drag on a leap second longer. On …
From a paper-mache Bermuda onion to a 200-pound tangerine to Snooki from “Jersey Shore”, the weirdest objects are dropped on New Year’s Eve. We’re familiar with the large crystal ball …
In space, if no-one sees you freeze, did it happen? The Mannequin Challenge has had school kids, athletes, and presidential candidates posing like mannequins for the camera. Never before has the …
Russia’s version of Santa Claus drops in for New Year’s Eve. A video of three Grandpa Frosts (the Russian Santa Claus) has gone viral. Not only did they pass …
This boozy Christmas carol was brewed in a manuscript written early in the sixteenth century and preserved in the Cottonian collection in the British Museum. It’s called “A Christenmesse Carroll.” …
There were carols for Easter, for New Year, and sometimes even for political events such as the Battle of Agincourt. The first known Christmas carols can be traced as …
There’s even a name for the notion that kids prefer playing with boxes to the toys within. It’s called the packaging phenomenon. Research in 2015 confirmed what parents …
When Henrietta Howland “Hetty” Green, the Witch of Wall Street, died, the New York Times reassured its readers: “Stock Market Not Affected”. The City of New York came to …
In 2008 John Cessna’s mother called and told him since he was away at school, he wouldn’t be in the Christmas photo that year. She jokingly suggested he “sober …
“Stop standing in front of East Iceland, dear weather forecasters” Some Icelanders are so tired of a tv weather forecaster blocking their home that they created a Facebook group called “Stop …
According to a recent survey, 51 percent of Monopoly games end in a fight. Luckily, this year, UK residents can solve a dispute by calling a Monopoly Helpline 08006894903. …
