Before trees were common, Earth was covered by giant mushrooms.
In “A.I. Artificial Intelligence”, child actor Haley Joel Osment suggested…
In “A.I. Artificial Intelligence”, child actor Haley Joel Osment suggested to Steven Spielberg that to portray an Android well he shouldn’t blink. Osment does not blink once during the entire film.
When Samuel Adams received a female slave as a wedding gift…
When Samuel Adams received a female slave as a wedding gift, he insisted that “a slave can not live in my house; if she comes she must be free.” He was able to free her after years of writing emancipation papers, and treated her as an equal family member throughout that time.
Alcohol is prohibited in the British Parliament with one exception…
Alcohol is prohibited in the British Parliament with one exception: the chancellor can drink while delivering the annual budget statement.
In 1910, President Roosevelt supported a bill that would have released…
In 1910, President Roosevelt supported a bill that would have released hippopotamuses into Louisiana to eat an invasive plant species and to provide delicious hippo bacon to hungry Americans.
It snowed 8 inches on the eve of John F. Kennedy’s inauguration. To clear Pennsylvania…
It snowed 8 inches on the eve of John F. Kennedy’s inauguration. To clear Pennsylvania Avenue, an army of men worked all night, using flame-throwers.
In Russia, some rich people hire “ambulance taxis” to beat…
In Russia, some rich people hire “ambulance taxis” to beat Moscow’s traffic jams.
One reason for a mother’s impulse to kiss her newborn baby: the mother…
One reason for a mother’s impulse to kiss her newborn baby: the mother ingests the bacteria/viruses on baby’s skin, then her immune cells create antibodies that go into her breast milk, thus protecting the baby from imminent infection.
City birds have learned to line their nests with cigarette butts in order…
City birds have learned to line their nests with cigarette butts in order to ward of parasites, as burnt nicotine works as an insecticide to ward off mites, lice and fleas.
On average, every person older than 15 in colonial America drank…
On average, every person older than 15 in colonial America drank the equivalent of 7 shots of alcohol per day.