Reading Time: 3 minutes For well over 130 years there has been much speculation about Billy the Kid’s real name. His name, just as the young man himself, has remained an enigma. While the world knows much of his criminal exploits, a significant portion of his personal details remain a mystery, including his real name. This is in part due …
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Did you know that Columbo was one of the most popular shows on television in Romania? In fact, Columbo was so popular in Romania that when the show was cancelled the government feared riots from a disgruntled public. The show was so popular in the country that it was broadcast twice a week. For the uninitiated among …
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Does green tea repel mosquitoes? Of all the supposed health benefits of green tea, the ability to repel mosquitoes is perhaps the most bizarre. So how does it work? Is it some holistic voodoo magic, or is there a more scientific explanation to the answer? How does green tea repel mosquitoes? OK, so this isn’t …
Reading Time: 2 minutes When looking at world maps it is often easy to notice the Sahara and think that it is the largest desert in the world. It is after all extremely large and arid. But what if you found out that the Sahara isn’t the largest desert in the world? To be even more precise, it’s not even the …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Did you know that Johnny Cash was the first American to learn of Joseph Stalin’s death? It sounds like a joke, I know, but due to a unique set of circumstances it’s one hundred percent true. So how is it that an entertainer like Johnny Cash knew of Stalin’s death before any other American? As …
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Hold onto your hats. A Bond girl was a man! Well kind of. You will have to stretch your imagination quite a bit to class this person as a true Bond girl. You see, she was only an extra, and this Bond girl used to be a man. She underwent gender reassignment surgery before the …
Reading Time: < 1 minute US revolutionary Benjamin Franklin once wrote an essay on farts and called it “Fart Proudly.” It wasn’t as a child or teenager either. But he did write it as a it of a prank though. When he was living in France around 1781 he was asked to do a scientific paper for the Royal Academy …
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Reading Time: < 1 minute We’re well into our fairytale theme of facts and now it’s time for Goldilocks And The Three Bears. The tale that we all know is that Goldilocks breaks into the house owned by the three bears. The bears return home to find her sleeping in a bed. She wakes with a fright and jumps out …
Reading Time: 2 minutes The world’s youngest grandmother was Rifca Stanescu, a 23 year old woman from the small Romanian town of Investi. While it’s perfectly natural and socially acceptable for women to have children when they are in their early 20’s, to be a grandmother at such a young age just burns the mind. I mean, how is this even feasibly …
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 …
