A cynic named Diogenes had no regard for wealth or honor. He was once sitting outside when Alexander the Great approached and asked if he wanted anything; he replied, “yes, stand a little out of my sun.” The awestruck king said “truly if I were not Alexander, I would wish to be Diogenes.”
No Such Thing As A Good Sloth Onesie
Episode 35 – In a special live episode for the Chortle Comedy Book Festival, Dan (@schreiberland), James (@eggshaped), Andy (@andrewhunterm) and Anna (#getannaontwitter) discuss the invention of sarcasm, the Antarctic Fire Department, dogs disguised as lions, and a Ming dynasty astronaut.
No Such Thing As A Good Sloth Onesie
Episode 35 – In a special live episode for the Chortle Comedy Book Festival, Dan (@schreiberland), James (@eggshaped), Andy (@andrewhunterm) and Anna (#getannaontwitter) discuss the invention of sarcasm, the Antarctic Fire Department, dogs disguised as lions, and a Ming dynasty astronaut.
An identity thief stole the identity of a surgeon and while…
An identity thief stole the identity of a surgeon and while aboard a Navy destroyer was tasked with performing several life saving surgeries. He proceeded to memorize a medical textbook just before hand and all the patients survived.
The discoverer of a gene for Green Fluorescent Protein lost his grant…
The discoverer of a gene for Green Fluorescent Protein lost his grant, didn’t get tenure, left academe and was working at a car dealership in Huntsville, Alabama, when he learned that former colleagues had won the Nobel Prize using the gene he sequenced.
An elephant in India, while helping villagers lift logs, refused to lower…
An elephant in India, while helping villagers lift logs, refused to lower a log into a certain hole because a dog was sleeping in it. Only after the dog was chased away would the elephant lower the log into the hole.
Maned wolf pee smells like cannabis, so much…
Maned wolf pee smells like cannabis, so much so that the police once searched the Rotterdam Zoo for pot smokers because someone mistook the pee smell for marijuana.
Shoe swapping was a high school…
Shoe swapping was a high school fad in 1947.
In belligerent countries, male-to-female sex ratios at birth…
In belligerent countries, male-to-female sex ratios at birth increased during and shortly after the two world wars. This phenomenon is known as the “Returning Soldier Effect”. Nobody has been able to explain it.
Dogs have a bacteria on their paws that make them smell…
Dogs have a bacteria on their paws that make them smell like corn chips, which is commonly referred to as “Frito Feet.”