Calling football “soccer” originated in Britain 200 years ago. It wasn’t until the 1980s that Britain began to phase out the name because it was “too American”.
In 2000 a man looking for a barber chair…
In 2000 a man looking for a barber chair at a garage sale purchased a two deteriorated boxes of items for $45. He later found the boxes contained 65 glass plate negatives from photographer Ansel Adams worth $200 million.
A Listerine mouthwash ad from the 1920s coined the phrase….
A Listerine mouthwash ad from the 1920s coined the phrase, “Often a bridesmaid but never a bride” to describe women with bad breath.
Plants can ‘hear’ flowing water: plant roots seek…
Plants can ‘hear’ flowing water: plant roots seek out buried pipes through which water flows even if the exterior of the pipe is dry.
The Solar System could support 10 quadrillion…
The Solar System could support 10 quadrillion human beings with the utilization of asteroid resources. A single asteroid can contain US$20 trillion worth of metals.
There’s a nursing home in Seattle that brings in kids to play…
There’s a nursing home in Seattle that brings in kids to play with the elderly. It improves the daily lives of the residents and makes the kids less likely to be ageist later in life.
David Barrett, an aeronautics engineer, resigned abruptly after seeing…
David Barrett, an aeronautics engineer, resigned abruptly after seeing a vision of Jesus, spent 40 years single-handedly compiling the first and only complete list of Earth’s 10,000 existing religions and 33,830 denominations of Christianity. This led him to all 238 countries on Earth.
There is a theory that says society has 4 stages…
There is a theory that says society has 4 stages of approx 20 yrs: High (strong institutions; low individualism), Awakening (strong activism & art), Unraveling (distrusted institutions; strong individualism), and Crisis (destroy institutions for national survival). We’re in the Crisis stage.
When Joseph Heller was asked why he hadn’t ever…
When Joseph Heller was asked why he hadn’t ever written anything as good as Catch-22 since, his reply was that neither has anyone else.
There’s a team of NASA scientists who’ve been pretending…
There’s a team of NASA scientists who’ve been pretending they’re on Mars for nearly a year. They live and work in a dome on the side of a Hawaiian volcano and only go out in spacesuits.