What’s the origins of the thumbs up? In the days of gladiator battles in ancient Rome, the losing gladiator would be then put to death…unless the emperor in attendance saved him by holding out a fist with his thumb extended upward. (A down-pointing thumb meant the death penalty stood.)
The midterm elections are about to go down in the U.S., but in the Ukraine, voters are trying to decide if they should cast their votes for a certain Sith lord.
If you’re squeamish, you might want to skip this one…but those little creatures are still going to be on your face.
Prince is making a comeback. After appearing on New Girl earlier this year, this month he released two new albums: Plectrumelectrum and Art Official Age. He’s also one of the biggest eccentrics in music history. Which of the following are true, and which isn’t? Answer at the end of the post.
It sounds easy enough but of course, the answer isn’t quite so simple. That’s because if you buy canned pumpkin this time of year to make pumpkin pie, pumpkin muffins, or other baked goods, in all likelihood, you aren’t buying a can of soft, cooked pumpkin at all.
You’ve got your moon landing hoaxers and JFK assassination theorists, but there are groups out there devoted to exposing the “truth” about anything. And we mean anything.
For the past several years, someone (or something?) has been leaving videocassette copies of “Hellraiser” at a bus stop on London’s Old Kent Road.
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.
Some achievements on the field might stand forever…simply because the game just isn’t played the same way anymore.
Where does the phrase “blue haired ladies” or “blue hairs” to describe prim and proper older woman come from?
No, you weren’t born so late that you missed a time period in which senior citizens dyed their hair strange, shocking, or unnatural characters like they were punk rockers or Marge Simpson. From the 1930s through to about the mid-1970s (or so), it was common to see women with silver hair streaked or dotted with blue.
Reza Baluchi is the sort of guy that loves to perform extraordinary feats of physical endurance. A foolhardy attempt to raise money for charity by running around the Bermuda Triangle in an inflatable bubble concluded with him giving up and calling for help on October 4.
In the late 1980s, The Simpsons creator Matt Groening reportedly based the show in a town called Springfield because it was widely believed to be the most common town name in the United States, and so the most generic and non-specific. He wanted the town to be set in “Anytown, U.S.A.,” and so he did, and named it Springfield.
Here are three weird news stories about memorializing the departed that somehow involve television. Two of the stories are true, and one we made up. Which one is false? The answer is at the end of the post.
How groups around the country are revamping a very controversial holiday: Columbus Day.
Did you help the evil doll movie Annabelle earn $37 million at the box office on its opening weekend? Believe it or not, it’s based on a true story.
Standing at a crosswalk can be really boring (or annoying if you’re in a hurry). Here are a few that make the wait a little more bearable.
Showtime just announced that it’s bringing beloved 1990s cult show Twin Peaks back in 2016. But how will it rate in the canon of other ‘90s TV show revivals?
The purpose of our fingers and toes is fairly self-evident: the better differentiation of digits makes for better dexterity. This allows us to grasp small objects, or climb and walk, respectively. But why do we have these hard little disks on top of all of our digits? Surely there has to be more of a reason beyond painting them so we can show off our “nail art” on Instagram.
