In the U.S., 97 percent of households report having a bottle at the table. But Ketchup’s origins are anything but American. In the 17th century, the Chinese mixed a …
To experience the White House in Augmented Reality, all you need is a smartphone and a dollar bill. Glenn Wiebe of History Tech advises that you download the 1600 …
Portrait of Benjamin Franklin in 1767. Benjamin Franklin to The Royal Academy of Brussels 1781 (Extract) It is universally well known, That in digesting our common Food, there is …
The Rude Map of World Place Names, made by Strumpshaw, Tincleton & Giggleswick (I know!), wants to show you all the world’s giggle-inducing rude place names. So you don’t …
Image Source Sweden’s Christmas Goat — a giant decorative goat made of straw and wood — is celebrating its 50th birthday. It’s erected at the beginning of Advent and …
Smells like chicken? KFC New Zealand just ran a competition for a KFC-scented candle. They asked people on Facebook to suggest some new products. The result ? 15,000 comments …
With male contraception on the way, spare a thought for the bizarre contraceptive history men will skip over Men will miss out on thousands of years of dark, daft …
Put one foot wrong in this conference room and you’re in a totalitarian regime Third of our most ridiculous borders is The Korean DMZ. A strip of land about …
Leave this town’s library the wrong way and get arrested Legend has it that drunken 18th century surveyors are responsible for one of our most ridiculous borders. Others say …
Put One Foot Wrong in This Town and You’ve Left the Country Welcome to the first in a new series on the world’s most ridiculous borders and walls. The …
Dingbats, dunces and nimrods, oh my! Let’s take a break from the goat song that is this Presidential election and enjoy some hilarious and strange word origins. Find out …
How did “Powerful Leader” become “Dick”? The Germanic first or given name Richard derives from German, French, and English “ric” (ruler, leader, king) and “hard” (strong, brave). So we …
