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 […]
“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.
Someday the robots will overthrow humanity. It will not, apparently, be anytime soon.
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 shelf life of your favorite show is often extended by syndication, but how much do you know about this niche of the TV world?
RIP Spock.
For 14 years, the very strange (and stinky) Museum of Old Art and New Art in Tasmania has been freaking out visitors and locals.
As winter winds down, here are things you should know about the place where the season never quite ends.
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again (with a cowboy hat on).
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.
We’ve given you weird sports statistics about football and basketball. Now here’s some great Major League Baseball Trivia.
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.
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.
The “Best Live Action Short Film” award at the Oscars has made Academy Award winners out of some notable names.
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.
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.
Is the government lying to us about UFOs? Was the moon landing staged? These alleged conspiracies pale in comparison to what could be happening in your bathroom right this very minute.
One of Oscar Mayer’s iconic automobiles was recently involved in a pretty bad traffic accident. In today’s Daily Fun Facts, we give you a rundown on what happened, in addition to some other frankly wild incidents involving the company’s fleet of hot dog-shaped vehicles.
