May 6, 2015 0 The Soccer Match that Sparked a War The 1970 FIFA World Cup has a few unique claims it can make. It was the first and only time that [...]
May 5, 2015 0 The Black Market in Scrap Metal (and How it Impacts Transportation) At a few hundred dollars a ton, scrap metal is decently valuable, and a good source of extra revenue for [...]
May 4, 2015 0 Baks the Blind Dog and His Gaggle of Eyes Pictured above are a dog and a goose. The dog’s name is Baks (yes, Baks — that’s not a [...]
May 1, 2015 0 Could This Key Have Saved the Titanic? You already know the story of RMS Titanic. On April 10, 1912, it set out on its maiden voyage from [...]
April 30, 2015 0 How KFC Keeps its Biggest Secret a Secret In 1952, the owner of a chicken restaurant named Harlan Sanders began franchising out his brand to other [...]
April 29, 2015 0 The Spies in the Toy Box? That monstrous chinchilla-esque, owl-like creature pictured above is called a Furby. It’s a toy. The [...]
April 28, 2015 0 When Canadian Kids Protested Eight-Cent Candy A candy bar — let’s go with the criminally underrated Sky Bar for example — will cost you [...]
April 27, 2015 0 The Law of the Tongue The whalers would go out into the water in hunt for their prey, armed with harpoons and, they hoped, some [...]
April 24, 2015 0 The Hidden Reference to the Beatles in Old Macs If you used a Mac before it became super-popular to do so, you probably know a certain sound very well. The [...]
April 23, 2015 0 The Time Championship Scrabble Almost Led to a Strip Search The name Edward Martin is hardly a household one. At the pinnacle of his career — at least, the part of [...]