On Bike to Work Day, let’s remember the cyclist menace of the Victorian era – scorchers. Some Victorians went extraordinarily fast on their bicycles, often to the point of putting those …
The Museum of Failures celebrates corporate cock-ups – from Colgate Lasagna to Bic pink and purple “for her” pens. The idea for the Museum of Failures came to Dr. …
Edward Gorey packrat hoarded very interesting and sinister things. The Gorey Skull At least once, Gorey’s hoarding tendencies even got him in trouble with the law. In the 1950s, …
The Naval Intelligence Service spent millions hunting a woman called Dorothy who was a friend to lots of gay men In the 1980’s, Mel Dahl, an openly gay sailor, told a …
While neither monkeys nor sea creatures, Sea Monkeys are translucent, breathe through their feet and grow two extra eyes. Sea-Monkeys are a brand name for a hybrid breed of …
There’s someone -or something- renting the attic forever for free in the Nightmare House. Bekka Supp seems to have been the first to point out the Twilight Zone nature …
The Golden Spike was driven into America’s first transcontinental railroad on May 10, 1869. The Golden Spike Before the transcontinental railroad, travel from the East to the West Coast …
The Kinetic Sculpture Race in Baltimore adds the one thing that’s missing from sculpture – Wacky Racing. Amphibious, human powered works of art race against each other. They battle for …
In the 600-year-old Tinku festival, thousands of men drink homemade spirits and brawl in the street. “Tinku” means “encounter” in the Quechua language of Bolivia’s indigenous people. This neighborly encounter …
On May 5, 1861, Mexican peasants took on the French army which hadn’t lost in 50 years. In the US, 81m pounds of avocados and $2.9bn worth of margaritas are put away …
On Children’s Day, sumo wrestlers make babies cry to bring them good fortune. (The babies, not the wrestlers.) Naki Sumo Baby Crying Contest is based on the proverb: “Crying babies …
Is the most dreaded popup on your screen: Your password has expired? And you start sweating …you must use one uppercase character, at least one lowercase alphabetic character, at least one …
