3 Noteworthy Tributes to Leonard Nimoy
Star Trek icon Leonard Nimoy succumbed to pulmonary disease last week. The beloved, influential actor has since been honored in a number of creative ways.
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The Happiest Ghosts on Earth
Disneyland and Disney World are home to more than just actors in stuffy costumes and thousands of exhausted families—there are “grim grinning ghosts” around, too.
Latest Scoop in Bathroom News
Here’s the latest poop. Uh, we mean scoop. A Modest Request Mt. Everest is not the headline-making achievement it once was—more than 700 people scale the peak each year. Among the hazards they face are avalanches, frostbite, altitude sickness, or simply falling off. Add to that list: human waste. The naturally occurring biological waste left […]
4 Musicians Who Were Big in Japan
“Big in Japan” is a bit of music industry puffery—it describes bands that aren’t popular stateside but do really well overseas, allegedly, especially in Japan. It’s usually a big lie, although sometimes it isn’t.
This Week in Silly Robot News
Someday the robots will overthrow humanity. It will not, apparently, be anytime soon.
6 Weird March Holidays You Ought to Celebrate
March comes in like a strange lion, and out like an odd lamb. Here are a few weird March holidays to mark on your calendar.
The Wild World of Syndicated Television
The shelf life of your favorite show is often extended by syndication, but how much do you know about this niche of the TV world?
6 Highly Logical Facts About Leonard Nimoy
RIP Spock.
- Leonard Nimoy invented the Vulcan Hand Salute during the filming of a Star Trek episode. The gesture was borrowed from the Jewish High Holiday services. The Kohanim (priests) bless the congregation by extending “the palms of both hands…with thumbs outstretched and the middle and ring fingers parted.” Nimoy used the same gesture, only with one hand.
The Thunder Down Under
For 14 years, the very strange (and stinky) Museum of Old Art and New Art in Tasmania has been freaking out visitors and locals.
Things You Should Know: 7 Facts About Greenland
As winter winds down, here are things you should know about the place where the season never quite ends.
3 Musicians Who Went Country…And Stayed There
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again (with a cowboy hat on).
5 New Weird Magazines
Think print media is dead? Well, an impressive 234 new magazines launched in 2014. Here are some the most notable (and weirdest) to hit newsstands in recent months.
Tallest, Shortest, Biggest, Youngest, Oldest: Major League Baseball Trivia
We’ve given you weird sports statistics about football and basketball. Now here’s some great Major League Baseball Trivia.
Random Trivia: 5 Bands That Had to Change Their Names
Trying to describe your band’s sound through a name is tough—which is why sometimes bands don’t quite nail it the first time.
4 Weird Things Alan Thicke Did
Alan Thicke, the sitcom dad from Growing Pains turns 68 this week. And he’s had a much more varied career than one might imagine.
4 People You Probably Didn’t Know Were Oscar Winners
The “Best Live Action Short Film” award at the Oscars has made Academy Award winners out of some notable names.
The World’s Craziest Musical Instrument
The first mention of a mysterious, and totally weird, musical instrument called a cat organ dates to the mid-16th century, mentioned in the written works of german scholar Athanasius Kircher. Whether or not he made it up remains a mystery.
Fighting Winter, Bathroom Reader-Style
If you can think of a better way to plow your walk, we’d like to hear it. Meet Loocy! Loocy is a gas-powered sidewalk snow-plowing machine, or a plow-outfitted go-kart with a toilet for a seat. Every morning, an employee of Union Hardware has plowed the sidewalk in front of the store (as well as those in front of other stores on the block), riding along on Loocy.
