R.A. Montgomery, the co-creator, co-author, and publisher of the incredibly successful Choose Your Adventure books, passed away earlier this month. Here’s a look back at a few of the most significant installments in the series.
Here are some fun facts about the honorific handed out yearly since 1985 by People Magazine.
As “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” makes a comeback, here’s a look back at a less famous all-star charity single.
It was not a “sunshine day” for these ill-fated continuations of America’s most enduring sitcom. Here are the Brady Bunch spinoffs that didn’t experience the same level of success as the original show. The Brady Bunch was not a massive hit when it first aired from 1969 to 1974. It never hit the Nielsen Top […]
Today, it’s a food industry standard. You can find “blue raspberry” flavors of everything from Jolly Ranchers to yogurt to bubble bum to Gatorade. Believe it or not, it’s a real fruit, not a lab creation. Well, sort of.
Bo Jackson famously played both professional football and baseball in the 1980s and 1990s. Here are some other athletes who played more than one sport.
This month marks the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, which was a major step towards the eventual reunification of Germany in 1990. These landmark events helped make life (and TV) a lot better for half of the country. Here are a few East German TV shows from behind the Iron Curtain.
Never follow a member of this family anywhere. You just might get stuck there. A lot can happen in the time it takes to read a text message. When Diane O’Neill did just that at a Tennessee laundromat, her 18-month old grandson, Colin Lambert, climbed through the dispensing slot of a claw machine and into […]
Remember our list of weird November holidays? Here are some more odd celebrations to hold you over until Turkey Day.
Two of the TV season’s biggest events have been cartoon crossovers—The Simpsons met the characters of Family Guy, and then the ones from Futurama. Both were relatively well received, but will they be forgotten like these other animated mash-ups?
We’ve tried the sea urchin flavor—it’s better than you think. Cousins Kim and Tyler Malek opened Salt & Straw in Portland, Oregon, in 2011—Kim handled the business, Tyler handled the ice cream. In just a few short years, it’s become a Portland institution and one of many reasons why the Rose City is now considered […]
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If you know the name “Dandy” Don Meredith, then you were a big football fan in the 1960s.
Get to know one of the quirkiest heads of state in the world: Jose Mujicam, the President of Uruguay.
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.
What’s a more powerful force than money? Not wanting to be anywhere near your old bandmates who drove you crazy.
How do cords get tangled up all on their own? It’s the strangest phenomenon—you take out your earbuds, and being in too much of a rush to properly wind and tie them up, you throw them into a coat pocket.
We recently told you about some of the world’s scariest bars. While those may remind you of the dead, these dearly departed watering holes around the world are, sadly, truly and completely dead.
Now that all the red, white, and blue balloons have dropped, let’s look at the quirkiest things that happened during this week’s midterm elections.
