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The “Candy bar protest”, also known as “the 5 cent chocolate war”, “the 5 cent war”, and “the chocolate candy bar strike”, was a short-lived 1947 protest by Canadian children over the increase in price of chocolate bars from five to eight cents. As the children marched, they sang: We want a 5 cent chocolate […]
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Internet Memes are now used in ways formerly used in leaflet propaganda. Targeted Internet memes “hack” people’s attention and aid in sewing discord. Memes do this by utilizing classic psychological warfare tactics, such as those used in propaganda via analogue leaflets.
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Eight elderly Belgian nuns sold their convent without permission from the church for $1.4 mil. They used the money to buy a castle in France, racehorses, and a number of luxury cars including a Mercedes with a bar.
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Putting spaces between written words wasn’t a thing until the 7th Century and didn’t become popular in Europe for another few hundred years (Romanauthorsthoughtyoucouldjustfigureitoutfromcontext).
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Dave Thomas, the founder of Wendy’s, was adopted when he was just 6 weeks old. His adoptive mother died when he was 5, and he was abused by his adoptive father. Hoping he could find better matches for other children in the future, he founded the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption in 1992.
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A breed of wool dogs existed on the pacific northwest coast. Indigenous people would keep the dogs isolated on small islands to prevent inter breeding with hunting dogs. The wool dogs were cared for and feed a rich diet of seafood to produce strong yarn to make blankets from.
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It was Stalin who invented the phrase ‘American Exceptionalism’. It was originally used as a way to attack Americans and their desire to see themselves as unique. Now most Americans use the term in a positive way.
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In 1911, inmates on death row played baseball for their lives. If they won, execution was delayed. If they lost, their execution went ahead as scheduled.
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A man built the world’s largest treehouse after claiming God told him to do so. It was 97 feet tall. It took 12 years to build and burned down in 15 minutes in 2019.
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In Malcolm in the Middle, Bryan Cranston used to hum improvised tunes. He then joined a songwriters guild so that everything he improvised earned him a royalty check of a few hundred dollars. He used this money to throw parties for the cast and crew. The crew even encouraged his humming.
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