Reading Time: 2 minutes Now why would anyone want to cut out half of a movie? A popular one at that, and I must also say, all the pivotal parts? Well, for profit of course. Yeah, it doesn’t make any sense, but it is possible that someone should do something so weird as cut out all of the music …
One South Korean Theatre Removed All Music Scenes From The Sound Of Music Read More »
Reading Time: 2 minutes Well I’ll be a monkeys uncle. Did you know that the shark in Jaws had a name? It did, this is despite it not even being a real animal. I mean, just think about it for a minute. Who goes around naming puppets, apart from very young children? So I guess you are wondering what …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Would you believe that pinball machines were once banned in New York city? But why on earth were pinball machines banned in New York city, I mean they’re not exactly the hive of criminal activity. Well, it all had to do with a perception of what they were, and that incorrect perception was gambling. Pinball …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Would you believe that the platypus has no stomach? It does seem quite odd that any animal lacks the organ that breaks down the food that we consume so it can be more easily digested, but the platypus is a rather odd creature anyway. With its duck bill, beaver tail, otter feet, and the ability to inject …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Australian ultra marathon runner Cliff Young won the inaugural Sydney to Melbourne ultra marathon in 1983 at the age of 61. How is this really possible? Surely someone a third of his age should have won the race easily. You would certainly think so, but this 61 year old potato farmer had a surprise in …
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Reading Time: 3 minutes The world’s best performing artists, from Lady Gaga to Beyoncé and Bruno Mars all use auto tune. It’s the magical device used extensively in the entertainment industry to make artists sound pitch-perfect. But imagine this. What would their music sound like if they never used auto tune? Would their singing be as spectacular as we know it to be? Or …
For Auto Tune to Work Correctly You Have to Be a Bad Singer Read More »
Reading Time: 5 minutes 8 fun Olympics facts and information that are simply astounding, Every four years we are graced with one of the biggest sporting events in the world, the Olympic games. For two weeks our scheduled television programming is interrupted by sports, that we in general pay next to no attention to most of the time, but …
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Someone alert Bear Grylls. There’s a creature that is even more disgusting than he is when it comes to the mouth. So what is the animal, and what does it do? We can explain rather simply in one sentence. Chinese soft-shelled turtles urinate through their mouth. Yuck, right? But why do soft-shelled turtles urinate through their mouth, …
Reading Time: 2 minutes You better get your shovel and pick ready, because you are about to discover the biggest hole dug by hand, and you will be stunned. There’s just no other word for it. People like big things nearly as much as we like comparing big things. Whether it’s measuring largest cup size, or the tallest mountain, …
Reading Time: 2 minutes If you are up late at night reading this, kudos to you, it appears that you are of higher intelligence. What makes us say that? A recent study has uncovered some fascinating results. It appears that if you stay up late you are smarter. But as with almost everything, there are always some catches, anomalies and exceptions to the …
