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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Whatever’s wrong with you, it’s all because of your mother. Although simplified, this theory is one thing everybody knows about Sigmund Freud, one of the most influential psychologist to ever live. Yet, many people don’t know much more about Freud. And that’s probably for the better, because Freud was a strange, troubled, and frankly disturbing …
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Occasionally, something so incredibly unlikely happens in our lives that it’s hard to believe. Call it a coincidence, a twist of fate, or an act of god, the odds of certain events taking place are astronomically small. Yet, those things still happen. We’ve all had our share of weird coincidences, but there are some historical …
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