27 Mar
It was a big year in sports. in 2010 we had the usual suspects such as the tennis majors, the golf majors, baseball’s World Series, football’s Champions League, the Superbowl, all the famous horse races, an exciting Formula 1 season, the NBA play offs, the Tour de France and some great boxing. And then we [...]
31 Mar
Elmo, a puppet from the children’s television show “Sesame Street,” testified on April 23,2002 during a House Labor, Health and Human Services, Education Appropriations Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. He was testifying in favour of school music education. He is the first puppet in history to testify on Capitol Hill. There is a [...]
31 Mar
A jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. Thus the saying, I will be there in a jiffy. A cesium atom in an atomic clock that beats over nine billion times a second. Construction workers hard hats were first invented and used in the building of the Hoover Dam in [...]
22 Feb
You can send a postcard from Hell. There is a small town located in the Cayman Islands called “Hell.” They even have a post office. Thailand used to be called Siam. Astronauts get taller when they are in space. There are over one hundred billion galaxies with each galaxy having billions of stars. There is [...]
22 Feb
Australia’s national anthem is called “Advance Australia Fair.” The phrase “Often a bridesmaid, but never a bride,” actually originates from an advertisement for Listerine mouthwash from 1924. The artist Vincent Van Gogh sliced part of his ear off in madness. The only English place that has a name that ends with an exclamation mark is [...]
22 Feb
Aerosmith’s “Dude Looks Like a Lady” was written about Vince Neil of Motley Crue. The are six fictional characters that have stars on Hollywood’s “Walk of Fame.” In 1982, a high school student from Los Angeles, California unscrambled the Rubik’s Cube in 22.95 seconds. Anti-American demonstrators protesting in Bangladesh after the September 11, 2001 terrorist [...]
22 Feb
The only woman that has appeared on a U.S. paper currency is Martha Washington. On October 15, 1794, the first silver dollar coins were released to be circulated to the public. Paper money is not made from wood pulp but from cotton. This means that it will not disintegrate as fast if it is put [...]
17 Feb
In Australia, a dust-devil is called a “willy-willy.” Back in 1919, the Russian transplant pioneer Serge Voronoff made headlines by grafting monkey testicles onto human males. Natural gas does not have any odor. In order to detect a gas leak, some gas companies add a chemical that smells similar like rotten eggs. It takes eight [...]
17 Feb
7 out of 10 people believe in life after death. In New Mexico, over eleven thousand people have visited a tortilla chip that appeared to have the face of Jesus Christ burned into it. John Bunyan, who was a popular writer from the 1700′s, was put in prison for twelve years for preaching. The name [...]
