The “Alexandra Limp” was a short lived fad in Victorian London. Fashionable young women mimicked the limp of Princess Alexandra. Canny shopkeepers even started selling mismatched footwear, with one high heel, and one low. The practice was widely ridiculed, even at the time.
No Such Thing As A Worthless Bucket Of Urine
Episode 52: Live at the Soho Theatre, Dan, James, Andy and Anna discuss Tutankhamun’s fashion choices, how to get ahead in a marathon, a city full of socks, and the most boring day ever.
No Such Thing As A Worthless Bucket Of Urine
Episode 52: Live at the Soho Theatre, Dan, James, Andy and Anna discuss Tutankhamun’s fashion choices, how to get ahead in a marathon, a city full of socks, and the most boring day ever.
Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry served in WWII with a pilot named…
Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry served in WWII with a pilot named Kim Noonien Singh and lost contact with him following the war’s end. Roddenberry named the villain Khan Noonien Singh after his comrade in hopes that Singh would notice and contact him.
Chinese people born in the year of the dragon are actually less…
Chinese people born in the year of the dragon are actually less successful on average because parents try to have children during these years and it causes increased competition for limited university spots.
A Malawian teenager taught himself how to build a windmill out of junk and bring…
A Malawian teenager taught himself how to build a windmill out of junk and bring power to his village. He then went on to build a second, larger windmill to power irrigation pumps. He did this all from books he read in the library.
Einstein once declared that his second greatest idea after…
Einstein once declared that his second greatest idea after the theory of relativity was to add an egg while cooking soup in order to produce a soft-boiled egg without having an extra pot to wash.
When traffic cameras were first set up in California, a man got a speeding ticket…
When traffic cameras were first set up in California, a man got a speeding ticket in the mail that included his photo as proof of guilt. Mad that he was fined by a camera, the man took a picture of money and mailed it off. Weeks later he was mailed another photo… this time of handcuffs.
Yoko Ono once brought a dead rat in a shoebox to a recording studio…
Yoko Ono once brought a dead rat in a shoebox to a recording studio, and insisted that the sound engineer record it. The engineer recorded two takes of the “dead rat solo.”
There is a sponge under Antarctica that scientists believe to be over…
There is a sponge under Antarctica that scientists believe to be over 10,000 years old, making it the longest living organic creature known to man.