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Flashback: Big Girls Don't Cry
Which Gene Pitney song was released for a film by the same name?
Top Ten Japanese Cooking Ingredients
No surprise that delicious sticky rice and noodles are at the top of the list.
Let Someone Else Eat Cake
A birthday party for an employee at Gravity Diagnostics in Kentucky cost the company $450,000, but it wasn't an expensive cake and decorations that ran up the bill, WLKY-TV reported.
It's a Dirty Job ...
In Australia, Queensland's Bill Edgar is known to some as the Coffin Confessor. As such, Edgar shows up at funerals and speaks for the deceased, telling off family members…
More Weird Trivia
The two tiny holes in every BIC pen ensure that the air pressure is the same both inside and outside the pen, which helps the ink flow to the tip.
Strange But True: Australian Budgy Smugglers
Many of us will not be surprised to learn that approximately five months of a person’s life is spent waiting in a car at red lights.
Moments in Time: Cy Young pitches perfect game
On May 5, 1904, Cy Young pitches the first perfect game in modern Major League Baseball history as the Boston Americans defeat the Philadelphia Athletics, 3-0.
Play Ball! Fun Baseball Facts!
There’s an odd tradition in baseball where new balls are rubbed down with mud, specifically found in New Jersey – Burlington County, to be exact.
Glitter bomb and chocolate bunny weapon
It may not be Easter yet, but Mr. Bunny is already making it into the headlines.
Moments in Time: Ferruccio Lamborghini born in Italy
After experiencing mechanical difficulties with his Ferrari, Lamborghini decided to start his own rival sports car company.
Strange But True: First Halloween celebration
In 1920, Anoka, Minnesota, became the first U.S. city to put on a Halloween celebration, in an effort to distract kids from playing Halloween pranks.
Baseball Trivia
Who was the first pitcher to throw a “no-hitter” in Major League Baseball?
Animal Antics
Step aside, Punxsutawney Phil. Mojave Max, a 33-year-old desert tortoise, sees your predictions of spring and calls them with a dramatic yearly emergence from his burrow in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Moments in Time: Edgar Allan Poe
On April 20, 1841, Edgar Allan Poe's story, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," first appears in print.
Fun Easter Facts
The tallest Easter egg chocolate was made in Italy in 2011. It stood at 10.39 meters and weighed an astounding 7,200 kg.
Strange But True: Honey badger named Stoffel
A honey badger named Stoffel, resident of a wildlife center in South Africa, was noted not just for repeated escapes from his enclosure, but his stubborn penchant for pursuing much larger animals than himself.