In 1950, 11-year-old Tommy Johnston tried out for Little League in Corning, New York. His sister, Kathryn, wanted to try out, too—but girls were barred from Little League at the time. Undeterred, Kathryn had her mother cut off her long braids, wore some of her brother’s clothes, and told coaches her name was Tubby (taking the name from a character in Little Lulu comics).
It started off as a coincidence—perhaps it just has a good rhythm—but the number 27 makes many, many appearances in the works and life of so-hot-right-now parody rock star “Weird Al” Yankovic.
Band names can be very misleading. Here are some bands in which many people thought that the name of the band referred to the lead singer…but didn’t.
These pricey potties definitely deserve to be called thrones. Here are some of the world’s most expensive toilets. Which one is your favorite?
The Star Wars saga has spawned comic books, video games, toys…and a terrible exhibition in Leipzig. Until recently, the German city was hosting “Space Expo” at its old fairgrounds. Instead of offering visitors interactive kiosks or props from the films, the touring exhibit consists of a series of halfhearted displays put together by a group of people that likely know next to nothing about Star Wars.
This fried treat can be found in about every carnival, fair, and rodeo you’ll hit this summer. But who first came up with this summertime favorite of many names? Canadians.
Here are three stories about the fine line between reality and fiction and what happens when that line is crossed. However: two of them are totally real, and one is complete fiction. Can you guess which one we made up? Answers at the end of the post.
MTV used the relatively new technology of Snapchat to announce the nominees for this year’s Video Music Awards. It’s good to see MTV embrace the new, especially since the acts it has nominated for Best New Artist at the VMAs frequently don’t have very lengthy careers.
Think you’ve got the answer? Keep reading to see if you nailed it.
How Much Do You Love Your Baby? Enough that you’d eat sausage made from their poop? Researchers in Spain have concocted sausage laden with digestion-friendly probiotics—probiotics harvested from the poop of babies.
Think you know the answer to this question? Think you can get it? Good luck…and come back tomorrow to see if you’re right.
Back in May, we told you about Action Park, the notoriously dangerous New Jersey theme park. While it’s about to be reopened, there’s another destination in the Garden State that’s unlikely to be back anytime soon.
What do you do when your career as a rock star is fading? You start making music for kids. Here are a few bands that now produce kiddie rock.
While watching TV this past weekend, Uncle John was bombarded with previews for a new action movie called Lucy. Hollywood made a whole movie based on a widespread myth, or misconception, or “myth-conception” that just won’t die. It’s simply not true that humans use only 10 percent of their brains.
With their dusty dinosaur bones and yawn-inducing artwork, museums often bore the heck out of kids. That probably won’t be the case with the wild, and stinky, exhibit currently running at Tokyo’s National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation. Welcome to the poop museum exhibit!
We recently told you about some really creepy places in Venice and Transylvania. Your turn to freak us out, Portugal.
Here are three recent news items pop culture products currently being remade. Well, that’s sort of true—two of the stories are real, and one of them we made up. Can you guess which one is just too weird to be true? (The answer is at the end of the post.)
The Emmy Nomination were announced this week and there weren’t many surprises—congratulations once again, cast of Modern Family. Here are a few times in Emmy history that things got wacky.
