Reading Time: 2 minutes Have you ever come across the myth that bald eagles mate while flying? It goes several ways. One way is that they free-fall, legs entwines with each other as they plummet towards the earth, managing to end their copulation either quite effectively and with plenty of time to spare, or just in the nick of time. Another …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Sloths do not grab their own arm and fall to their deaths. This is just preposterous to say the least. But it has gained a fair bit of attention and notoriety online over the years, but why? Why is it that such a statement is adhered to as being an actual factually correct assertion? Have you …
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Circulating online for about the last decade is a news story about a Chinese man that divorces his ugly wife and is awarded $120,000 compensation. Weird, right? But is it true? There are after all so many stories that get made up that it becomes difficult to determine fact from fiction.Don’t get me wrong, there …
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Reading Time: 2 minutes In Cleveland, Ohio, do you need a hunting permit to catch mice? This also applies to killing them also. Well, all I can say is that with so many dumb laws around the world this certainly seemed possible. But lo and behold, this is one of the odd laws that are often mentioned that are …
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Has Niagara falls ever frozen completely over? That is, has it ever formed a complete land bridge made out of ice and stopped the flow of water completely? Sure, there are photographs that appear to show a phenomenon of magnificent proportions, but it hasn’t ever happened in recorded history. But it did come close. There …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Did the Vikings helmets have horns on them? Well popular culture would have us believe that this is the case, but we have been mislead. Not only did Viking helmets not have horns on them, but practically none had any protrusions such as horns or any other item at all. Some did, but this was …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Was February 1865 the only month with no full moon? No, no it wasn’t. Sorry to disappoint yet again, but the good old viral content has yet again let people down. But here’s the thing. It has happened and will happen again. To be precise, many reading this now may have been alive when it last occurred. …
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Was JFK one of the fastest random speaker that many people could have ever come across? While Eminem holds the Guinness world record for most words in a hit song, which means that he spat them out rather quickly, the main difference between the two is preparedness. Rap God, written by Eminem was precisely that, written and …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Golf, gentlemen only, ladies forbidden, history and intrigue of the origin of the name. Where did the word for the game originate from, and is it overly sexist in nature? Some have argued that the name for golf originated from being an acronym of gentlemen only ladies forbidden. Is this the truth or just a way …
Reading Time: 2 minutes This may seem a little hard to believe, given World War II, and it is, but there’s a claim that Adolf Hitler owned land in Colorado. It was only by chance that the opportunity ever presented itself to Hitler, but when it did, legend has it that Hitler jumped at it because of his life …
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