Reading Time: 2 minutes During the Great Depression of the late 1920’s and 1930’s, one of the most renowned criminal figure heads in America ran a charity. It was Al Capone’s soup kitchen for displaced workers in Chicago. But surely there’s more to the story than generosity. Al Capone rose to infamy during Prohibition. As the head of a …
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Have you ever wondered why the bananas that you can buy from supermarkets and green grocers always look and taste the same? Unlike from most fruit and vegetables which can vary in taste, color, shape and size, bananas are nearly always the same. There’s a reason for this too. Nearly all bananas that we eat today are …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Did you know that there if a kind of fruit that when eaten makes any sour food taste sweet? It is called the miracle berry, also known as miracle fruit and it is native to West Africa. The first recorded use of the miracle berry was in 1725 when a French cartographer who was exploring West Africa noted …
Reading Time: 3 minutes Now for a question that has been bugging me, and quite possibly every chocolate lover around the world for quite some time. Why does chocolate go white? You know what I mean, right? What would appear to be a perfectly good chocolate bar while still contained in its wrapper turns out to be a somewhat pale …
Reading Time: 3 minutes Now it’s time for the fascinating history of the ice cream cone. It’s probably not an item that you would really place too much thought into. That’s aside from price, flavor, shape and size. In all honesty, most of us would be more concentrated on the special desert being placed inside the receptacle than the cone …
Reading Time: 2 minutes You have to admire human ingenuity. When there’s a will, there’s a way, and German pilots during WWII proved that point exceedingly well during their unwelcome time in North Africa. What exactly did they do? The WWII German pilots figured out how to cool down Coca Cola bottles in the hot and harsh environment of …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Did you know that can openers were invented after cans? But why was the can opener invented after cans? It has a little to do with progression of the food preservation industry, and a lack of a real need to make opening the cans easier. In a modern world where we take so much for …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Wow, originally milkshakes were alcoholic drinks. I mean seriously, wow. Could you imagine walking into a bar and ordering a milkshake with the end result being you get plastered? Or being refused a milkshake because you were under age? This was the bizarre circumstances in the late 19th century. The first known use of the …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Guinness World Record fail coming right up. Iran made the world’s biggest ostrich sandwich, but before it could be measured, it was eaten. I mean there are some pretty funny things that can happen when setting a record, but eating the evidence has to be one of the funniest things that I have ever heard …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Oh, this would have been so much fun on so many occasions. We all know that a wedding cake is a traditional part of the wedding, but would you believe that the tradition used to be to get the wedding cake and have it thrown at the bride? It’s seriously true, and would have been …
