Reading Time: 2 minutes Did you know that a Disney favourite, and the wealthiest fictional character, Scrooge McDuck died in 1967, at the ripe old age of 100 years? This is the truth as told by comic book writer and illustrator, Don Rosa, best known for his stories abour Scrooge McDuck and other Disney characters. While Rosa has made …
Reading Time: 3 minutes The origin of Humpty Dumpty may not be an egg at all, but a menacing and destructive article of war, a cannon. How is it that Humpty Dumpty may have originally been a cannon and not an egg as is most often portrayed? We will explain as best we can the amazing circumstances to the origin of …
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Reading Time: 2 minutes They are the tireless workers of the animal kingdom. They slave away producing one of the sweetest and delicious golden nectars known to man. We are of course talking about bees. The honey that they produce is delicious, and very healthy. But how many of you have ever put thought into how difficult the produce …
Reading Time: 2 minutes The common saying is that there are only two things that you can guarantee in life, death and taxes. The way we are taxed can vary from region to region, but death is always the same. The way we mourn or celebrate a life certainly does vary from culture to culture. The Toraja district of …
Reading Time: 2 minutes In Tennessee atheist are excluded from public office. This is not a joke, and is unconstitutional. But they aren’t the only group excluded. Read on to find out just how odd the laws for public office are in Tennessee. As we have seen in other facts, many laws around the world have some bizarre quirks in …
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Reading Time: 2 minutes The regulation of alcohol is something that every country has. Some countries have outlawed it completely, while others place restrictions on the age in which you can both purchase alcohol and consume it. Most countries that place an age limit on the purchase or consumption of alcohol have a minimum age of 18 to 21 …
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Reading Time: 2 minutes It may come as a surprise to many that the wheel is not one of the oldest inventions of the human race. Some items that pre-date the wheel include boats, sewing needles, woven cloth, rope and even the flute. The reason the wheel was a late comer in the world of human invention is because …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Time for a pop quiz. Do cats need to drink water? You are probably thinking that this is an utterly stupid question to ask as water is the building block of life on Earth. But what if I were to tell you that cats do not need to drink water? How could this possibly be? …
Reading Time: 2 minutes The moon the same size as Mars? Oh dear. I first stumbled upon this suspicious fact one day on Facebook. It had received hundreds of thousands of likes and shares. But, as an amateur astronomer I knew that it wasn’t right, it couldn’t be right. After all, Mars is a planet that’s a hell of …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Did you know that Sean Connery wore a wig as James Bond? It’s not something that is clearly visible in each film, which is kind of the point. It blended in seamlessly with his natural hair. So why then did Sean Connery have to wear a wig as James Bond? To put it simply, he was …
