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: < 1 minute Former Australian cricketer Don Bradman was so good, and so revered not only have songs been written about him, but also film, landmarks named after him, coins minted of him, a Boeing named in his name, a museum about him, many books written about him, awards in his name, and even a plant named after …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Did you know that Cheetahs can’t roar? Despite all of the David Attenborough and National Geographic nature films, this is something that until now I was blissfully unaware of. Sure, I had seen them dozens of times on television, and even from time to time in zoos, but the fact that I failed to hear …
Reading Time: 4 minutes 1 Jesse Tyler Ferguson Had To Come Out Three Times Leading off in our five Modern Family fun facts is the awkward story of Jesse Tyler Ferguson coming out to his father. Jesse Tyler Ferguson, who plays Mitchell in the hit ABC sitcom Modern Family, revealed in a 2010 interview that he was the inspiration …
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 I knew the banks were evil and I couldn’t trust them, but I bet most of you already knew that. However, right now I have an even deeper distrust of them, and it’s all because of a little discovery I made about a very common type of long term transaction that they offer. What was …
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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Reading Time: 4 minutes When it comes to the English language there are many interesting little things about it that a lot of people don’t know. We’re not talking about spelling and grammar, we are talking about interesting and slightly weird English language facts. So sit back and enjoy some of the best that we have to offer, because it …
Reading Time: 2 minutes The popular carbonated beverage 7Up contained lithium, the toxic element used in many popular battery cells. But it’s also perhaps the most widely used medication for bipolar disorder. The therapeutic benefits of lithium are the reason it was first used in 7Up. When it was released for sale in 1929, only a few weeks before the stock …
