To prevent cheating during university entrance exams Uzbekistan shuts off the entire country’s internet for five hours on exam day. 00
To prevent cheating during university…
ELO’s first album “The Electric Light Orchestra”…
ELO’s first album “The Electric Light Orchestra” has a different name in the US. The american record company tried to call and confirm the name of the album. When they failed to reach anyone on the phone, they wrote down “No Answer”, which someone misconstrued as the name of the album. 00
Michael Jackson once spent $150,000…
Michael Jackson once spent $150,000 to put a curse on Steven Spielberg because he didn’t give him the role of Peter Pan in the movie Hook. 00
In Japanese, there is a phrase bushu-suru…
In Japanese, there is a phrase bushu-suru (ブッシュする). In literal terms, this means “to do the bush thing,” in reference to a bizarre 1992 incident where George HW Bush fell ill and vomited directly onto the Japanese prime minister. 00
When Stalin visited his mother…
When Stalin visited his mother in 1935, she asked him what he did. He said “Do you remember the tsar? Well, I’m like a tsar” his mother’s response was “You’d have done better to have become a priest”. 00
No Such Thing As A Sexy Black Hole
Live from Glasgow, Dan, James Anna and Andy discuss denim arson, and why 1p on the ground isn’t worth anything.
No Such Thing As A Sexy Black Hole
Live from Glasgow, Dan, James Anna and Andy discuss denim arson, and why 1p on the ground isn’t worth anything.
No Such Thing As A Female Egg Thief
Live from Oxford, Dan, James Anna and Andy discuss the man with an egg stuck in his mouth, Lost Wife posters and Edward VII’s driving-drink.
No Such Thing As A Female Egg Thief
Live from Oxford, Dan, James Anna and Andy discuss the man with an egg stuck in his mouth, Lost Wife posters and Edward VII’s driving-drink.
A Hungarian chemist during WWII…
A Hungarian chemist during WWII hid his Nobel Prize by dissolving it in acid and leaving it on a shelf due to the Nazi ban on its citizens from accepting the Nobel Prize. After the war, he reconstituted the gold from the acid, returned it to Sweden, and got the medal cast again. 30