July 7, 2010 0 The Luckiest Dessert in History Powerball, a multi-state lottery, has unique rules. Players pick six numbers: five which they hope will [...]
July 6, 2010 0 The Longest One-Word Sentence? “Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.” According to William [...]
July 2, 2010 0 The First American Flag Was Very British Looking We are all familiar with the 50 stars and 13 stripes which, together, comprise the flag of the United States [...]
July 1, 2010 0 Re-Read All About It Everyone in television gets the same news — literally, in fact. The top picture above is from an [...]
June 30, 2010 0 Sometimes, To Win, You Have to Play to Lose In 1994, twenty-one Caribbean nations gathered on the soccer pitch to play for the Shell Caribbean Cup. [...]
June 29, 2010 0 Kentucky, Disconnected Seventeen square miles. Seventeen (or so) residents. 100% Kentucky. And isolated from the rest of the [...]
June 28, 2010 0 The Little Fields of Dreams There’s a scaled-down version of Fenway Park in Vermont, quite literally built in someone’s back [...]
June 25, 2010 0 Allergic to Water Imagine taking a shower or going for a swim, and a few minutes later, it feels like your skin is burning. [...]
June 24, 2010 0 In Super Mario’s World, Clouds are Bushes And you thought Luigi and Mario looked alike. Bonus Fact: Super Mario Brothers had a few neat visual [...]
June 23, 2010 0 The U.S. World Cup Upset No One in America Knew About In the summer of 1950, the World Cup resumed after a twelve-year hiatus due to the Second World War. The [...]