When Denny’s stores closed for the first time ever for Christmas in 1988, many didn’t have door locks because they were always open.
In 2013, while walking their dog…
In 2013, while walking their dog in their back yard, a married couple came across several rusty buckets sticking out of their land. The buckets were full of gold coins minted from 1847 to 1894. The total value of all the coins was about $11 million.
There is a Canadian TV anchor…
There is a Canadian TV anchor who translates all the English news into Inuktitut live on air. Igalaaq is the only Inuktitut supper hour TV program in the whole country where unilingual Inuktitut speakers have this one chance, for 30 minutes, to see someone speaking their language.
“The camera on the” United States Air…
The camera on the United States Air Force SR-71 Blackbird reconnaissance jet “could accurately capture the license plate of a car from 80,000 ft (24,384 meters).”
A lot of Cubans living in Havana…
A lot of Cubans living in Havana are considered illegal in their own country due to a law that prohibits Cubans from rural parts of the country to move to the capital.
An Irish postman was able to deliver…
An Irish postman was able to deliver a letter with no written address, but had a hand-drawn map of the delivery area with “Here please” written on an arrow pointing to an illustration of a lighthouse. The letter had been sent by a blogger who regularly challenged the postal service.
A French writer had a pet lobster…
A French writer had a pet lobster he would take for walks in Paris. He used a blue silk ribbon as a leash. He called them “peaceful, serious creatures” and that they didn’t “bark” or “gnaw upon one’s monadic privacy” like dogs did.
In 1942 the song “Deep in the Heart…
In 1942 the song “Deep in the Heart of Texas” was banned by BBC during working hours on the grounds that its infectious melody might cause wartime factory-hands to neglect their tools while they clapped in time with the song.
An Arizona man found a balloon…
An Arizona man found a balloon with a Christmas list for Santa while out hiking. He tracked down the 8-yr-old Mexican girl who released the balloon and fulfilled her wishlist.
Audi had to use more durable…
Audi had to use more durable horns in Indian-market cars, as their normal horns would have been unable to cope with the amount of honking Indian drivers do.