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 …
First Lord Sea Admiral Arthur Wilson called submarines “underhanded, unfair, and damned un-English”. Their sailors should be “hanged as pirates”. Wilson went on to say that the undersea boats …
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. …
There is a Scottish tartan designed for Mars exploration. That’s right, a Martian Tartan. The tartan was designed by Geoffrey (Tailor) Highland Crafts on behalf of Charles Cockell, astrobiology …
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 …
Joe Medicine Crow became a war chief of the Crow Tribe while fighting WW2. During WW2, Joe Medicine Crow became a war chief by touching an enemy without killing …
This is a history of the world told in hilarious bloopers collected by teachers throughout the United States. These bloopers go from eighth grade all the way through college level. …
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 …
