It’s 2018 now, which means a bunch of laws passed by legislatures around the country have now taken effect. Here are some of the most interesting and amusing ones. Facebook Checks Keep posting those Facebook rants about what a jerk your boss is…if you live in Vermont. Employers in the Green Mountain State are now […]
Last weekend, the Buffalo Bills finished the 2017 NFL regular season with a record of 9 and 7, enough to secure the sixth the final AFC playoff spot. That ended the longest playoff drought in the NFL—the Bills hadn’t played in the postseason since 1999. Here are some the other longest current postseason droughts in […]
You could watch a movie and eat while you watch—popcorn, candy, and such. Or you could taste the movie itself at one of these theme restaurants based on popular films. Caddy Shack The World Golf Village in St. Augustine, Florida, is home to Caddy Shack, a restaurant whose theme is the biggest golf movie of […]
Netflix recently released Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond, a documentary about Man in the Moon, the 1999 film about avant grade comedian Andy Kaufman starring Jim Carrey. One thing neither movie covers: Did Kaufman fake his 1984 death and assume another identity as one of his patented comedy stunts? The Daughter The Andy Kaufman […]
Well gaaaaaaaaaawleeeee. Jim Nabors, the actor best known for portraying lovable dimbulb Gamer Pyle on The Andy Griffith Show and Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. has passed away this month at the age of 87. Here’s a little bit more about the man and his life. Nabor’s Singing Career Serving as a stark contrast to Nabors’ embellished […]
Updated March 12, 2019 We love making these lists of the tallest, smallest, oldest, and youngest players to ever play professional sports. Here are similarly interesting facts about some all-time record-breaking coaches from the NBA. Longest-serving coach with one team. In 1996, former San Antonio Spurs and Golden State Warriors assistant coach Gregg Popovich got […]
Here’s the little-known—and very harrowing—tale of a real Titanic survivor Violet Jessop.
The 2017 Cleveland Browns are about to make NFL history. No, not in a good way — they’re on track to become one of the few teams to ever rack up a completely winless season. In 2016, the LeBron James-led Cleveland Cavaliers ended a nearly 50-year sports championship drought in Cleveland. In football, however, the […]
Meghan Markle was a moderately famous actress, best known for her role on a USA drama called Suits. Now she’s a princess-to-be — she’s been dating Prince Harry, fifth in line to the British throne, and the couple will marry next year. It’s especially newsworthy because Markle is both a “commoner” and she’s American. This […]
It just wouldn’t be Christmas without the stockings hung by the chimney with care, a punch bowl full of eggnog, and the game where you slap your friends on their backside. That one, and many others, are once steadfast yuletide traditions that slowly disappeared. Aluminum Christmas Trees In the 1950s and 1960s, any sort of […]
Need a vacation from Christmas Vacation? Don’t think It’s a Wonderful Life is so wonderful anymore? Then check out one of these, well, quirky, holiday movie recommendations from Uncle John. All American Christmas Carol (2013) It’s the umpteenth adaptation and variation of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, in which the Scroogey central character learns the […]
Who’s the most popular musician on the radio today? Well, it’s December…so it’s Bing Crosby. His recordings of Christmas songs are perennial classics, so much so that nowadays he’s pretty much exclusively celebrated with the holiday. But in the mid-20th century, there was nobody bigger than Bing. White Christmas According to pre-computerized sales tracking systems, […]
You know the songs, but you probably didn’t know these fun facts about them. When the carolers hit your house, regale them with some trivia about their tunes! “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus” The song is built around a joke that’s never completely explained, but that most listeners understand: A child witnesses his mother […]
How your favorite candies got their names. Kit Kat The current and most famous form of Kit Kat consists of a bar of four “fingers” of cookie wafers covered in chocolate. That’s a bit different from the first iteration of food sold under the name. The Kit-Cat Club was a place where late 1800s London […]
The sport is called “football,” even though only one player regularly actually kicks the ball: the kicker. Here are some guys who joined the NFL because of their kicks…but had a hard time kicking it. The extra point or “point after touchdown” is so named because it’s basically a free point. A team scores a […]
Watch out for the windmill, don’t swing your club too hard, and enjoy this trivia about mini golf. Ladies’ Putting Club of St. Andrews One of the oldest miniature golf courses in the world is located right next to one of the oldest and most storied regular golf courses in the world. At St. Andrews […]
Being a movie star is pretty sweet work if you can get. So are the perks. Roger Moore James Bond is a gentleman who enjoys gentlemanly things, such as martinis that are shaken instead of stirred. James Bond portrayer Roger Moore also liked the finer things – so much so that when he agreed to […]
Readers sometimes ask if we’ll ever run out of things to write about. No way. Origins are a good example: as we recently discovered, even lowly snack foods can have fascinating (and delicious) origins.
