Some people can sleep through anything. Nothing can stir them, whether it’s honking cars, screaming children, or quaking ground. Or a gigantic cargo ship running aground mere feet away from their homes. Johan Helberg is one of those people. On a recent morning, the Norwegian irately went to answer the door after being roused by …
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Have you heard these jokes about the spring before? The one that uses the four different months “May” be the best one. What goes up when the rain comes down? Umbrellas! When do monkeys fall from the sky? During Ape-ril showers! Why did the spring breakers miss their flight? They had no spring in their …
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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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With our phones, computers, and other smart devices always listening, it’s not necessarily paranoia to be cautious about somebody spying on you. Even the birds in the sky may be conspiring against you. Or that’s what the residents of this Ethiopian village thought, anyway. Recently, a bunch of villagers in Ethiopia caught a seagull. On …
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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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These are the most random odd facts about food you’re every gonna read. Make sure you read the fact about gum. ((Puke.)) Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches were something soldiers ate a lot in World War II. One 12-ounce container of peanut butter uses 540 peanuts. Honey Nut Cheerios don’t actually have nuts but instead …
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Do you know these May fun facts? It’s the start of some delicious produce seasons, that’s for sure. May is National Barbecue Month in the United States, which makes sense because the warmer it gets, the more people want to cook outside. In the Southern Hemisphere, May is the beginning of the autumn season. Early …
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It always sucks when somebody steals something that’s yours. It smarts twice as much, though, when a living being you’re attached to get stolen. For instance, it could be your cat. That’s theft that was at the heart of a recent strange court case in Switzerland. It involves a retired woman who started feeding her …
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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 …