September 2, 2014 0 Stripped Down Las Vegas is the gambling capital of the United States. It is home to, per About.com, about 200,000 slot [...]
August 28, 2014 0 Where Everyone Has Gone Before On April 12, 1961, the Soviet Union launched Vostok 1 into low Earth orbit. Onboard was Yuri Gagarin, a [...]
August 27, 2014 0 Cupid’s Axe In 1966, soul singer Jimmy Ruffin and Motown Records released the song “What Becomes of the [...]
August 26, 2014 0 Street Meat It’s unlikely you’ll ever find yourself in Pocahontas County, West Virginia. Fewer than 10,000 people [...]
August 25, 2014 0 Magnetic Copper Drop a magnet into a pile of U.S. pennies and not a whole lot is going to happen. Pennies are made up of [...]
August 22, 2014 0 All the News that’s Fit to Cage Manhattan’s Grand Central Terminal has a lot of trains — hundreds come and go each day. Where there [...]
August 21, 2014 0 Conflict of Interest The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is the judge, jury, and executioner when it comes to the [...]
August 20, 2014 0 The Epidemic Song Even if you’ve paid only a passing amount of attention to world news, you know that hundreds of people have [...]
August 19, 2014 0 Jumper, Jack, Match In the late 1800s, a man named James Wide was working as a signalman for the Port Elizabeth Mainline Railway [...]
August 18, 2014 0 The Artmobile The car pictured above was not vandalized. In case you can’t see the image, that’s a car [...]