Category: What Day
Here’s a fact for Scrabble Day (April 13th): Scrabble was originally called ‘It’. It was invented in 1938 by an architect called Alfred Mosher Butts who’d lost his job …
The Thirteen Club dined 13 to a table, walked under ladders and open umbrellas, rented cats and donkeys * – all to debunk the number 13 superstition. Other meetings included …
No matter how healthy or otherwise your deskfast (breakfast at your desk), a colleague probably won’t challenge you to duel by sausage. According to legend, a sausage was the …
Did you know that golfers can get ‘golf ball liver’ from licking their balls, the first mention of golf made it illegal and that Tolkien had an alternative golf origin …
Among Hunt’s inventions are a restaurant steam table, a tree-felling saw, a ships ice-breaker, inkstands, a rifle, a cartridge, hard-coal-burning stove, ice plough, shoe heel, and a ceiling-walking circus device. …
The original Star Trek First Contact was super-kitschy Renaissance time-travel. The Borg go back in time to stop Data being a renaissance painter? Rick Berman’s original idea for First …
Who knew it required two centuries, a couple of world wars, and a Supreme Court decision to make Daylight Saving Time a reality? An accidental noise woke Ben Franklin …
Richard Herring is just a man. Standing in front of some other men. On International Women’s Day. Telling them when International Men’s day is. And occasionally asking about dick …
On Tuesday, March 6, the Coen brothers’ comedy “The Big Lebowski” opened, and the world went – meh. 20 years later, there are annual Lebowski Fests in Los Angeles …
French and German babies have French and German accents. Researchers studied the cries of 60 healthy babies born to families speaking German and French. Babies are listening to their mother’s voice in the …
Harry Houdini concocted a secret code to prove that the living couldn’t communicate with the dead. If contacted, Houdini’s ghost would reveal a code only his wife would know. Amazingly, the …
Tug of War was an event in every Olympics between 1900 and 1920. At the time, Olympic sports included Archery, Croquet, Hopscotch, Jackstraws, Mumblety-peg, Diablo and Ring Toss. Many Tug …
