Strange and Interesting Facts: 3 Bizarre Coffee Blends
Do you take yours with cream, sugar, or monkey spit? Today’s Strange and Interesting Facts dives into three strange and bizarre coffee blends from around the world.
Daily Dispatch
The Most Watched TV Events of All Time, Around the World
The most watched TV show in American history is almost always the most recent Super Bowl—the last few have drawn more than 100 million viewers. Here’s what’s brought the most people to their TVs in countries around the world. (Hint: it’s more sports.)
5 Interesting Facts About Kwanzaa
Kwanzaa is a seven-day celebration of African-American culture and heritage. How much do you know about it? Here are some interesting facts about Kwanzaa to get you started.
Fake-or-Fact Friday: Killing Bono Edition
Bono has had a rough 2014. Fortunately for him, one of these three things didn’t happen. We made it up. See if you can guess which fate the U2 singer was spared. (Answer at the end of the post.)
Inside ‘The Star Wars Holiday Special’
The Star Wars Holiday special debuted on November 17, 1978, and it was…not what fans had in mind. The first 15 minutes showed Chewbacca’s family (without Chewbacca) arguing in Wookie language, without subtitles.
Food Trivia: 12 Weird Candy Cane Flavors
Candy canes – they aren’t just available in peppermint anymore. Also, make sure to check out the other food trivia we’ve covered in the past.
Impossible Questions: Stairway to Heaven Edition (The Answer)
Think you’ve got the answer? Keep reading to see if you nailed it.
Who had a hit single with “Stairway to Heaven”?
The answer we are look for is not Led Zeppelin.
Pilot Lost! 3 TV Show Ideas That Were Abandoned, And Then Picked Back Up Years Later
The stories of how three current TV shows were cancelled before they aired. We can explain.
Fargo
In 1996, Joel and Ethan Coen’s comic-laced, Midwestern crime drama Fargo won two Academy Awards, one for the Coens for Best Original Screenplay and one for Frances McDormand for Best Actress. In 1997 CBS commissioned a pilot for a TV version. Marge Gunderson – McDormand in the film, Edie Falco in the show, years before she won Emmys for The Sopranos and Nurse Jackie – is still quite pregnant and still solving murders. It maintained the original’s quirky flavor, but CBS did not order the pilot to series.
Impossible Questions: Stairway to Heaven Edition
Think you know the answer to this question? Who had a hit single with “Stairway to Heaven”? Come back tomorrow to see if you’re right.
6 Random Trivia About Ringo Starr
Here’s some interesting and random trivia about Ringo Starr, the funny Beatle.
- This week Ringo Starr earned induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist. He is the fourth of the four Beatles to be recognized as such for his solo work. The Beatles are the only band in the Hall who also have all four of its members in the Hall by themselves, too.
6 Actors Who Turned Down ‘Saturday Night Live’
For many comedians and actors, being offered a spot on SNL is a big break and the culmination of everything they’ve worked toward. Not these people.
A Look at SantaCon
Have you spotted any roaming hordes of drunken Santas in your town this holiday season? If so, then you’ve witnessed one of the newest and strangest holiday traditions: SantaCon.
6 Random Trivia Facts About ‘The Hobbit’
The third and final part of the fantasy trilogy is in theaters now. Here’s some random facts about the source novels and the movies, too.
- The Hobbit author J.R.R. Tolkien made up the word “hobbit,” which proved difficult for foreign-language publishers to translate. The Swedish edition of the book was called Hompen. In Portuguese, it was titled O Gnomo, or “The Gnome.” In the manufactured “universal” language of Esperanto, the novel is titled La Hobito.
It’s Christmas in Spain!
Who is el caganer? If you’re not familiar with this Christmas character, he’s a peasant usually added to nativity scenes in Spain. He’s typically dressed in traditional clothing like robes. But, unlike Mary, Joseph, or the Three Wise Men, he’s, well…always depicted squatting, with his pants around his ankles and having just left a large turd on the ground. (El Caganer translates to a slang term that means, in more indelicate language, “the guy who poops.”)
Ask Uncle John Anything: Ice, Ice Baby
All are forms of precipitation, and all involve the temperature being cold enough for these little balls of ice, or very, cold water, to fall from the sky. But how do you tell them apart?
How to Defeat Proprietary Technology In One Easy Step
When a company introduces a new product, they try to hold on to being the one-and-only manufacturer of that product for as long as possible, even introducing more technology to keep other companies out of the game. Someone always finds a way to beat the system.
Two Major Hanukkah Fails
Hanukkah, the festival of lights, is an eight-day Jewish celebration that occurs every winter. It’s celebrated by millions of people, so we don’t know why these people seem to have no idea about it.
4 Really Obscure (But Really Real) Pro Basketball Rules
Following our recap of weird football rules, here are 4 weird pro basketball rules.
