Category: Facts
Men should avoid listening to rock music if they want to stand a chance of winning at board games this Christmas, a study suggests. The study, published in the …
JK Rowling was impressed by the discovery of a Sorting Hat-shaped spider. It’s been named ‘Eriovixia gryffindori’, after Godric Gryffindor, the character who originally owned the Sorting Hat. .@curiocritters …
31 people in Melbourne, Australia agreed to wear the same pair of jeans for three months without washing them. They were helping doctoral student Tullia Jack research alternative laundering …
The helmet was discovered in a vast ship buried underground in Sutton Hoo, Suffolk. The ship and its contents remained hidden for more than 1000 years. In 1939, Mrs …
In its July 5, 1943, issue, Time magazine noted the marriage in Pryor, Montana of Owen Smells and Mary Knows. The marriage only lasted three years, but in that …
In the U.S., 97 percent of households report having a bottle at the table. But Ketchup’s origins are anything but American. In the 17th century, the Chinese mixed a …
The Rude Map of World Place Names, made by Strumpshaw, Tincleton & Giggleswick (I know!), wants to show you all the world’s giggle-inducing rude place names. So you don’t …
Put one foot wrong in this conference room and you’re in a totalitarian regime Third of our most ridiculous borders is The Korean DMZ. A strip of land about …
Leave this town’s library the wrong way and get arrested Legend has it that drunken 18th century surveyors are responsible for one of our most ridiculous borders. Others say …
Put One Foot Wrong in This Town and You’ve Left the Country Welcome to the first in a new series on the world’s most ridiculous borders and walls. The …
Dingbats, dunces and nimrods, oh my! Let’s take a break from the goat song that is this Presidential election and enjoy some hilarious and strange word origins. Find out …
How did “Powerful Leader” become “Dick”? The Germanic first or given name Richard derives from German, French, and English “ric” (ruler, leader, king) and “hard” (strong, brave). So we …
