What do you know about the month of June? Here are a bunch of fun facts you may not know. June is the month of celebrations for most high schools and colleges. Strawberries come into season during the month of June all around the nation. The first Superman comic was published on June 30, 1938. …
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Tyrannosaurus Rex, Diplodocus, Stegosaurus, Spinosaurus… Even if you know next to nothing about dinosaurs, some of them are so iconic that you can picture them just by the name. Not all dinosaurs are like that, though. For each legendary dino, there were two (if not more) absolute weirdoes roaming primordial Earth. We missed the International …
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What do you know about these rainbow fun facts? Did you know Earth is the only planet that experiences rainbows? The shape of a rainbow isn’t an arc, but instead a full circle. From the ground, we only see a semi-circle. You’ll sometimes see a double rainbow, also called a secondary rainbow. A double rainbow …
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In the 1980s, there was big boom in consumer product development. Partially, it was because people had enough money to buy stuff, but tech was also getting smaller and cheaper, so all kinds of gadgets found their way to the store shelves. Some of them never left the shelf, though. Because of the mad rush …
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The Cold War might as well have been called the Spy War because, really, that’s what it was. The CIA and its Soviet counterpart, the KGB, were constantly coming up with new, sneaky ways to find out what was happening on the other side of the Iron Curtain. Some spying techniques the CIA developed were …
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We need more May fun facts because it’s almost June. Do you know what the birth flower is for May? The Indianapolis 500 takes place on the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend in May. The very first ceremony for the Academy Awards ceremony was on May 16, 1929, at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. The birth …
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Fossils can tell us so much about what life was like on ancient Earth. For example, a few footprints are enough to know that one rainy day, one of the first land animals was playing around with a friend. Some fossils, though, leave everybody scratching their heads. Life has taken many forms over four billion …
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Life originated in Earth’s oceans some 4 billion years ago, but it took a hot minute for it to crawl onto dry land. The first creatures started flopping around on land some 400 million years ago, and they didn’t start truly walking until some 318 million years ago. Or that’s what the general understanding has …
These Chicago fun facts are interesting and full of history. What’s the coolest thing you know about Chicago? The Chicago River flows backwards (and sometimes it’s green.) The Chicago River was redirected into the Mississippi to prevent contamination of Lake Michigan, making it the only river in the world that flows backwards. Oh and the …
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There are events in history so important and momentous that everyone knows about them. But the thing is that many of those events never happened. Even if they did, many times the events were vastly different from what we think today. You see, history is a centuries-long game of telephone and things often get distorted …
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