September 6, 2012 0 Saved by the Wind Here’s a crass joke: A man is at a dinner party in a 40th floor apartment. He announces to the rest, [...]
September 5, 2012 0 Unreal Money Brazilian currency is called the real, which is the Portuguese word for the homographic English word [...]
September 4, 2012 0 Bacteriotherapy When a person is taking antibiotics, many of the helpful bacteria in that person’s stomach get [...]
August 31, 2012 0 Greetings Craig Shergold was a typical nine year-old living in the UK when, in 1988, he started complaining of ear [...]
August 30, 2012 0 Unmixed On the fourth of July, 2010, a man named Kent Smith was on a cruise in the Gulf of Alaska. He started [...]
August 29, 2012 0 What’s Your Beef? Pictured above is a cut of Kobe beef, which if you’re a food aficionado at all (or, simply cognizant of [...]
August 28, 2012 0 Titanic’s Star Wars In 1997, Titanic made its box office debut — and set a then-record lifetime gross domestic take of [...]
August 27, 2012 0 Knuckle Head If you crack your knuckles, you’ll develop arthritis — or so the old wives’ tale goes. But [...]
August 24, 2012 0 Civil War On November 17, 1810 Sweden declared war on the United Kingdom. The two sides were at odds for more than a [...]
August 23, 2012 0 Down the Rabbit Hole The British colonization of Australia began in 1788 with the founding of New South Wales. In 1850, the [...]