Reading Time: 2 minutes The most babies born to one mother belongs to a woman from Russia during the 18th century. During her life she gave birth to what can be best described as a nerve wracking 69 babies, and nearly all of them survived. Today families usually restrict the number of children to between two or three on average. …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Well I’ll be. A squirrel broke the NASDAQ stock exchange. This would have to be one of the more humorous, and easiest to repair catastrophes to strike the important stock trading exchange. So would you like to know what exactly happened that caused the NASDAQ to be totally incapacitated by a squirrel? The NASDAQ stands …
Reading Time: 2 minutes The inspiration for the Polaroid Camera was a three year old child. It sounds a little perplexing how a toddler could provide inspiration, but it’s true. Without the words of this one young child, the ability to view photos instantly may have been delayed until the advent of the digital camera decades later. Children today …
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Talk about a rare coincidence. This fact is somewhat of a joke among the people of Russia as it has been ongoing for nearly 200 years. It even has a name, the bald-hairy theory of Russian leaders. Since the reign of Tsar Nicholas I in 1825, every Russian leader has been either bald (or in …
Reading Time: 3 minutes What is the origin of the word soccer? I know that this is a touchy term to use, especially for the purists of the game, but you may be surprised to discover that it was actually the original term for the world game. That’s right. The origin of the word soccer predated the singular word …
Reading Time: 2 minutes The Snow White voice actress was blacklisted by Walt Disney. For a young, and talented actress who managed to provide the beautiful voice of the title character of the first ever animated film made in the US, such a move would have been devastating, not to mention career ending. So what did the Snow White voice …
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Reading Time: 2 minutes The oldest joke ever recorded is a Sumerian joke from about 1,900 BC, or nearly 4,000 years ago. We’re not about to suggest that this is the first joke ever told, that would be preposterous. It’s just that this is the oldest joke ever recorded. Before the written language, people obviously had the intelligence to make …
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Did you know that the common fork was once considered evil and a tool of the devil? It seems hard to believe today, but in the middle ages the Europeans took an especially harsh dislike of this new wonder tool for the dinner table. The fork had a fairly humble beginning. It was used early …
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Reading Time: 2 minutes The average medieval life expectancy for a peasant was only a mere 35 years of age. Wow, like that really sucks, right? That’s hardly enough time to accomplish everything that you wanted to in life. But it’s more complicated than being of old age at 35, far more complicated. So what made the average medieval …
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Reading Time: 2 minutes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTQTKFZw4CM Andrew Jackson’s parrot, Polly, swore so much during his funeral it had to be forcible removed from the proceedings. Unbelievable and shocking, but true. Andrew Jackson hardly needs an introduction, but his swearing parrot, Polly on the other hand might. For those who don’t know, Andrew Jackson was a famed US military leader who in later …
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