Hey, peep these Peeps facts! Up until the 1950s, Rodda Candy Company was a small manufacturer in Pennsylvania best known for its signature Easter candy: hand-formed, hand-colored yellow baby chicks made out of marshmallow and sugar. In 1953, a Russian immigrant named Sam Born bought the company and changed its name to Just Born—playing off […]
The legendary funk band once used a large UFO prop during their live shows. It disappeared in the ‘80s and no one has seen it since.
Government agencies in the past week have approved for sale some bizarre and potentially lucrative substances. Only two of the three are real, and the third one we made up. Can you guess which? The answer is at the end of the post.
Here are some fun facts about the choice of a new generation.
Art reviewers can definitely be snooty and cruel but these individuals recently took their critiques to a whole different level.
Lead singers tend to get all the attention…and cause most of the problems. Result: the band fires their lead singer, gets a new one, and goes in a new direction.
Stateside KFCs mostly serve down-home fare like fried chicken and coleslaw. Around the world, it’s a free-for-all.
Yes. Lloyd’s isn’t a traditional insurance company, but a “specialist insurance marketplace.” Not backed by one institution, it has the financial interest of several backers, which means that it can offer big payouts if necessary by distributing risk around the multiple parties.
Here are a couple of stories about St. Patrick’s Day from Uncle John’s bottomless archives.
The first St. Patrick’s Day Parade was held in New York City in 1762 or 1766. Given the rather “fluid” nature of postparade celebrations, confusion over the exact date is no surprise. The 1766 date sticks out for officialdom, though, because it was the first of the parades when a military unit led off. Today, more than 150,000 participants march down Fifth Avenue every March 17. The Ancient Order of Hibernians is there and, marching along with them to the cadence of drums and bagpipes, are 30 Irish county societies and Irish nationalist groups of almost every stripe. The pride, the pageantry, and the color—who needs floats?
Popular wisdom advises that if you can’t do the time you shouldn’t do the crime. In the following cases, however, the authorities went a bit overboard.
Public urination is a big problem in many cities. Here’s how a few of them are fighting back….
Some fun facts to fuel your March Madness.
Recently the government of Ireland changed some laws, but got a little too vague on some of the language. Result: Ireland changed some laws, however briefly, that it probably shouldn’t have changed. Two of the following stories on the subject are true, and one isn’t. Which one is the fake? The answer is at the end of the post.
Inspired by the twitter feed @WeWantPlates, here are some real restaurants who serve food on really weird things instead of plates.
This week a judge ordered Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams to pay $7 million to the estate of Marvin Gaye, finding that their 2013 hit “Blurred Lines” infringed on Gaye’s “Got to Give it Up.” Here are some other cases of musical copyright drama.
No animals were injured during the filming of 1981 horror movie “Roar” but their human co-stars weren’t so fortunate.
It makes very little sense why a very expensive, very shiny piece of jewelry, a bracelet studded and glimmering with diamonds would be named after tennis.
Did you know that you could be in a band but not actually have to do much?
