Category: Facts
Who would have thought that in 2017 scientists would be announcing the discovery of a previously unknown human organ? Researchers have classified a brand-new organ inside our bodies, one …
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 …
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 …
Reindeer don’t fly, but they do sometimes have red noses, like the legendary Rudolph. The secret to Rudolph’s red nose is a dense network of blood vessels in his …
The old Leatherman was a 19th-century figure who is remembered for his 60-pound “boot-suit”, his regular circuit of New York state every 34 days and the fact that no-one …
Debt? Castro would rather give them a rum for their money. Cuba has come up with an unusual way to repay its multimillion-dollar debt to the Czech Republic – …
The first vending machine was invented as a result of British people being very, very upset at laws banning the wide-scale sale of gin in 1736. In fact, one …
The American presidency must be one of the hardest jobs in the world. No wonder that some Presidents historically sought relief in very strange ways. From having vaseline rubbed …
