A crowd funding campaign raised over £20,000 to replace all adverts in a London Underground station with pictures of cats. 00
Ken Allen, an orangutan became famous for escaping…
Ken Allen, an orangutan became famous for escaping from his enclosure at the San Diego Zoo 3 times in the 1980’s. He would peacefully stroll around the zoo looking at other animals and never acted aggressively. Other animals even followed his lead and began escaping, too. 00
Some roads in Australia are so long and boring they…
Some roads in Australia are so long and boring they have trivia signs to keep drivers alert. 00
One of the few female physicists on the Manhattan…
One of the few female physicists on the Manhattan Project moved to Communist China afterwards. She spent the rest of her life as a farmer in a small village outside Beijing. 10
If you have served in the military, regardless…
If you have served in the military, regardless of the branch of service, regardless of where you were deployed, and regardless of whether you served during a time of peace or a time of war, you are at a 60% greater risk of dying from ALS (motor neuron disease) and nobody knows why. 10
William James Clark, a two-time felon, was able…
William James Clark, a two-time felon, was able to take command of the I-40 Bridge Disaster scene for two days by impersonating a US Army Captain. After a briefcase belonging to an actual Army captain was recovered from the river, William took possession of it and contacted the officer’s widow on multiple occasions. On May […]
The word “Afghanistanism”, which means the practice of concentrating…
The word “Afghanistanism”, which means the practice of concentrating on problems in distant parts of the world while ignoring controversial local issues, is almost 70 years old. 00
The average attention span for humans seems…
The average attention span for humans seems to have dropped from 12 seconds in the year 2000, to 8 seconds in 2016. 00
Charles Darwin was the first person…
Charles Darwin was the first person to put wheels on an office chair, creating the modern office chair. 00
When Luxembourg was liberated from Nazism in 1944, the returning…
When Luxembourg was liberated from Nazism in 1944, the returning government was so impressed with some regulations and laws concerning tax and employment the Nazis had made, that it decided to simply keep them. 00