Month: February 2017
10,000 grown men in loincloths battle to grab two lucky sticks thrown out of a window by a priest. And this is only one of the three most eccentric festivals …
17 small acts of kindness on Randon Kindness Day It’s not always the grandest gestures that move us the most. 1. When a high shool student spent months making …
Do a Grouch a Favor Day. Bah. If you know a grouch, buy them a coffee. If you have a jerk co-worker, help them out on a project. And …
Is your love refined? (“Fin Amor”) To be fit for Refined or Courtly Love, you cannot be blind, poor, too old, too young, too passionate, impotent, gay, self-confident, trusting, …
Nothing says Vinegar Valentines like: “Everyone thinks you an ignorant lout.” People sent Vinegar Valentines as far back as at least 1840. Back then, they were called “mocking,” “insulting,” …
On Galentine’s Day, it’s Uteruses before Duderuses. Ovaries before brovaries. The “Galentines” concept was invented by the US sitcom, Parks and Recreation, in 2010. Amy Poehler’s character Leslie Knope …
Thanks for the nightmares, evolution. Darwin Day commemorates the anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin on 12 February 1809. Here are 23 of evolution’s odder creations – the …
Women rocket scientists or Rocket Girls from the early days of NASA were forgotten until 2016. By complete chance biologist and writer Nathalia Holt discovered their existence. They were …
President Theodore Roosevelt went on a hunting trip and landed a timeless icon- the teddy bear. “I must see a live bear the first day,” Teddy Roosevelt told his …
Chocolate has a history as a love food. Not only did ancient Aztecs consider it an aphrodisiac, you could use to pay taxes. Remedies and Seduction By the early …
Since February 8, 1910, millions of boys across the U.S. have learned ways to survive in the wild, techniques necessary to tie a whole plethora of knots and the …
Museums found that their noses runneth over. So some created a Nasothek. Aging Humans tend to lose their hair first. With Classical statues, it’s the nose. In the 19th-century …
