One of the best parts of the holiday season is gorging yourself on gingerbread, sugar cookies, eggnog, candy canes… but that’s just here in North America. Here’s some interesting trivia on some holiday sweet treats from elsewhere on the planet.
Scoring a hit song is hard, so what do you do when you can’t score another one? You go and score a Broadway musical. Literally.
If your job was to just sit there and collect urine, you’d probably get fed up, too.
Until recently, Christmas was obscure in Japan because, well, the country didn’t have a lot of Christians. It was only in the 1960s that the holiday became familiar by watching imported American and British TV sitcoms, many of which feature tradition-referencing Christmas episodes.
This presented the marketing department at Kentucky Fried Chicken with a great opportunity. KFC has had many restaurants in Japan for decades; the first opened in Nagoya in 1970. After learning
Here’s a look back at the legendary comedian, Roberto Gómez Bolaños, who died last week at age 85.
What wealthy people do with their money is up to them, but we can still gawk.
“More fun than a barrel of monkeys” is supposed to be an ironic statement, or at least a sarcastic one. It’s properly used to wryly describe something that isn’t fun (say, the board game “Barrel of Monkeys.”)
While the Buffalo Bills recently had to play a home game in Detroit due to unprecedented snowfall, other teams have hit the field under even crazier conditions.
They’re screen legends who made classic, hit films, but the one thing that eluded them was Hollywood’s highest honor: an Academy Award for acting.
Have you ever wondered why hotels put a chocolate on your pillow? The answer is revealed in our latest edition of Cool History Facts.
Some random trivia you ought to know. “Deviled” as a culinary term goes back to the 1700s, and it originally meant to cook something—anything—with lots and lots of hot and spicy condiments and seasonings.
The Friday following Thanksgiving has become synonymous with shopping, holiday sales, and stampeding crowds. Here are some fascinating facts about black Friday history and how it all began.
The National Thanksgiving Turkey Presentation takes place every year a few days before the holiday and involves the President of the United States “pardoning” one of the birds slated for slaughter. The turkey is then moved to a new home where it will, presumably, live a long and enjoyable life instead of winding up on a platter in the White House’s State Dining Room. The rather weird tradition is widely believed to have begun during the Truman administration but the real story is a bit more complicated.
Turkey Day has spawned plenty of TV specials, but they’ve never received the kind of attention as those based on Christmas and Halloween.
In 1984, Michael Jackson was so popular that LaToya Jackson scored a hit single. From 1982 to 1984, the American public couldn’t get enough Michael Jackson. His Thriller album sold more than 20 million copies to become the bestselling album ever. His innovative music videos helped put the burgeoning MTV on the map (and integrated […]
On Thanksgiving Day 1965, folk singer Arlo Guthrie decided to help his friend Alice get rid of some trash. What happened next would go on to inspire a hit film and one of the biggest anti-war anthems of the ‘60s.
The phrase “off to a good start” did not apply to these teams.
Prepare to have your world turned upside-down.
