Reading Time: 2 minutes George Washington owes one library money, a lot of money from a fine. The George Washington library fine as it is known, was a result of some long overdue books. Who doesn’t know who George Washington was? Hardly anyone. He was the leader of the Rebel army during the American War of Independence and …
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Reading Time: 3 minutes For many shoppers, the checkout experience is a crucial part of their supermarket visit. After all, who wants to spend their precious time waiting in line to pay for their groceries? Unfortunately, customers of the Dutch supermarket chain Jumbo have been experiencing long checkout times, leading to frustration and complaints. According to a report by …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Believe it or not but police in the northern Madhya Pradesh state of India actually get paid an allowance for growing a moustache. Such an allowance may seem bizarre to many, especially from modern western cultures, but there was some logic behind the decision. Moustaches are one of those things that come and go with fads. …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Have you ever found that when you buy some items of clothing, such as jackets or pants, that the pockets are sewn shut when you buy them? If you have, and the chances are that you have, what did you think? Did you think to yourself, are these just for show, or how weird? I …
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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 Undoubtedly one of the most popular stories written by Dr Seuss is Green Eggs and Ham. Rarely a child who has picked up one of his books wouldn’t have at least heard of it. One of the most amazing things about Green Eggs and Ham is the number of words used, and it was written …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Back in the 1990’s, when the internet was still in the warm up phase of its development, there were very few websites around, especially when compared to today. Pretty much the only TLD that anyone used was the .com. So if you wanted to visit a government site, most people would simply type .com at …
Reading Time: 2 minutes KODAK had a secret nuclear reactor stored in a baspermt in Rochester, New York, and no one knew about it. When you think about KODAK it’s hard not to think about cameras. It was their business, and their calling card. Just mention the name KODAK and people the world over know that you are talking about …
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Well this seems like an intelligent decision. Fox turned down South Park. Over time we have become well accustomed to watching corporations making what they thought was a good decision at the time, only to turn into a monstrous blunder. You only need to look at the case of Blockbuster or Excite to really see how disastrous an …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Would you like to know how to earn airline miles almost for free? To be more precise, about four million of them at almost no cost at all. Well keep reading to learn how one man took advantage of a loophole in the system, and find out how to earn airline miles for next to …
