These place names are straight out of Monthy Python. An AI has invented silly and rude place names for a country that already boasts Nob End, Pity Me, and Great …
Nathan’s hot dogs were so cheap that people didn’t trust the quality. Nathan Handwerker charged 5 cents for hot dogs until 1944. He raised the price to 7 cents, after …
My chatbots will call your chatbots. There’s a chatbot that will negotiate your cable bill with Comcast. Hand over your email, address, and phone number and Trim barters for …
Take a graphic designer, some devious salesmen, and an ambitious newspaper man. Graphic designer Harvey Ball was hired by State Mutual Life Assurance Company to make employees in …
The Nazis wanted to breed a racially “pure” cow. Hecks cows were an attempt to bring back the Auroch, a species of ancient, extinct wild bull. The Aurochs were …
Maybe, on a long Winter night. (You know it’s coming). I took 10 great fan questions (thanks, Gizmodo) and put them to the Game of Thrones Chatbot. These were: 1) …
Nothing says post-apocalyptic wasteland like teddy bears. Teddy bears are popping up all over video games, particularly in the Fallout World. They’re jailed, tied to train tracks and posed …
It wasn’t usually sweet; it didn’t melt in the mouth, and it sometimes came mixed with human blood. The history of chocolate is as bitter as the Aztec’s original …
Kissing may have come from mothers chewing food and forcing it into babies’ mouths. Source Anthropologists can’t get to first base with the origin of kissing. It may have …
On June 12th, 1817, a German inventor took a spin around Mannheim on his dandyhorse. Local aristocrat Baron Karl von Drais managed a 14km trip in less than an hour. …
What if Superman had been raised in the Soviet Union? In Red Son, Superman’s an idealistic young farm-boy from the Ukraine who believes in the goodness of communism. Because of …
Luxemburgers have been hopping for 500 years in honor of a British saint. The Hopping Procession is Europe’s largest traditional dancing procession. Every Whit Tuesday, some 12,000 hoppers merge …
