Mail was delivered 12 times a day in Victorian London, with immediate responses often expected, and people got upset if letters weren’t received within a couple of hours.
Fats Waller was kidnapped to be the surprise guest at Al Capone’s birthday party at gunpoint…
Fats Waller was kidnapped to be the surprise guest at Al Capone’s birthday party at gunpoint. He left 3 days later intoxicated with thousands of dollars in tips.
Poison dart frogs raised in captivity are completely nontoxic. This is because…
Poison dart frogs raised in captivity are completely nontoxic. This is because they do not manufacture their own toxins. Instead, they simply concentrate toxins found in the insects they eat. When fed nontoxic insects, they cannot obtain the toxins, rendering them completely harmless.
Snapchat founder Evan Spiegel’s networth is $1.5 billion at the age…
Snapchat founder Evan Spiegel’s networth is $1.5 billion at the age of 24, making him the world’s youngest billionaire.
Vigo County, Indiana has voted correctly with the winner in every presidential…
Vigo County, Indiana has voted correctly with the winner in every presidential election since 1956, and in all but two since 1892.
There is no place you can legally watch and listen to the entire…
There is no place you can legally watch and listen to the entire “I Have a Dream” speech for free, as the recording is owned and licensed by the EMI Publishing and the King Family. The only way to legally watch the speech in it’s entirety is to buy a copy.
English words for livestock (cow, sheep, chicken) are Germanic-based and the words…
English words for livestock (cow, sheep, chicken) are Germanic-based and the words for meats (beef, mutton, poultry) are French-based. This is because the people who raised the animals were Anglo-Saxon peasants and the people who ate them were Norman aristocrats.
Chopping wood increases testosterone production by 46.8 percent, as much as 17…
Chopping wood increases testosterone production by 46.8 percent, as much as 17 percent higher than soccer and other studied competitive sports.
A study showed that children whose parents placed the children’s pacifiers…
A study showed that children whose parents placed the children’s pacifiers in their own mouths before giving it to the child were less likely to develop allergies like eczema and asthma later in life.
Google hired a camel to map a desert for…
Google hired a camel to map a desert for Google Street View.