These sports fun facts are about football, soccer, baseball and more. What’s your favorite sport? During a game in 1957, a lady named Alice Roth was hit in the head with a ball. Specifically, it hit her in the nose and broke it. As she was getting taken away, the same player fouled the next …
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The man who won the lottery probably imagined what he would do with all the money, too. But first he found a way to cheat the system as it were, with simple math. What would you do if you won the lottery? For Romanian Stefan Mandel, he won the lottery enough for 14 other people. …
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Airports and airlines have strict restrictions on what you’re allowed to bring on a plane. If you’re unsure if something can go on a plane, just check online — it’s not like the instructions are hard to find. Still, every year people get stopped at airport security for trying to get a wide variety of …
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If you happened to sleep through your English classes, collective nouns are words used to describe groups of things. And modern English has some pretty weird ones. A murder of crows, a family of sardines, a horde of hamsters… Who comes up with these? But strange as modern collective nouns are, things haven’t changed much …
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America is big — really big. Although our country isn’t that old on a global scale, we more than make up for our youth with sheer size. And with so much of the country out there, is it any wonder that there are all manners of local traditions and customs in different corners of the …
Is your town one of the most bizarre cities in America? Could be, let’s see. Gibsonton Gibsonton Florida has the nickname ‘home of the freaks,’ mostly due to the circus freakshow performers known to settle here for retirement. The town has about 8,000 residents was a hub for circus acts and if you move …
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These are the weirdest animal restaurants so if you’re an animal lover, chances are there’s an animal café of your dreams. Would you dine with cats or flying squirrels if you had the chance? Izakaya Kayabuki-Japan This monkey waiter restaurant is just that. The restaurant description states “The Kayabukiya Tavern is a traditional-style Japanese ‘sake-house’ …
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During medieval times, people produced a lot of fantastic masterpieces in the areas of architecture and sculpting. But we don’t think anyone would argue they’d really figured out this painting thing yet. Sure, there were some master painters here and there. But for the most part, medieval artwork was… Well, see for yourself. Here are …
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Celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain hated single-purpose kitchen appliances. Occasionally, he directed his ire at such common tools as garlic presses. But we have to admit, he sort of had a point. There are so many mind-bogglingly strange gadgets out there that you can’t help but wonder who the manufacturer’s target customer is. And we don’t …
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Words are specific by their definition — they mean a certain thing. Well, sometimes two or more, depending on the context. But then there are words describing such hyper-specific situations that you may have never even heard of them. And you don’t need to because you can say the same thing using five common words, …
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