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Moments in Time: Kellogg Toasted Corn Flake
On Feb. 19, 1906, American industrialist W.K. Kellogg teamed with Charles C. Bolin to found the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company…
Top Ten Smartest People of All Time
Albert Einstein and Leonardo da Vinci are number two and three on this list. Isaac Newton is number four.
Strange But True: Bronze Mirrors
Before the modern glass versions we use today became commonplace, mirrors were made from bronze and were prized possessions of rich households…
Moments in Time: The Maple Leaf
On Feb. 15, 1965, the maple leaf officially became Canada's official national flag symbol.
Top Ten Most-Watched TV Shows of 2023
Squid Games takes the top spot while the first season of Wednesday comes in at number two.
Moments in Time: Reader's Digest
On Feb. 5, 1922, DeWitt and Lila Wallace self-published and marketed the first Reader's Digest magazine, designed to provide abridged articles…
Strange But True: Vomitoriums
Vomitoriums in ancient Rome weren't actually spaces for gastronomic feasting and purging…
Top Ten Highest-Grossing Movies of 2023
What's that sound? It's the sound of Barbie dominating at the box office in 2023.
Top Ten Streaming Songs in 2023
Get your mid-winter bop on with these top streaming songs from 2023.
Moments in Time: USS Monitor
On Jan. 30, 1862, the first American ironclad warship, the USS Monitor, was launched into the East River.
Strange But True: AI Diabetes
An AI program using merely 10 seconds of human speech has been able to identify whether someone has diabetes with 89% accuracy.
Moments in Time: Tokyo Rose
On Jan. 19, 1977, President Gerald Ford pardoned Tokyo Rose, a Japanese-American woman whose real name was Iva Toguri, shortly before leaving office.
Fun Snowflake Facts
Humans depend on snowflakes: Nearly 80% of the fresh water on earth comes from melted snow and ice.
Top Ten World's Heaviest Animals
These animals are very very large and very very heavy! The massive Blue Whale tops the list.
Strange But True: Mountain Dew
The soft drink Mountain Dew was created in Tennessee in the 1940s as a mixer for whiskey, hence its name (a slang term for moonshine).
Trivia Test: Mammoth Cave
U.S. STATES: Which state is home to the Mammoth cave system, believed to be the longest in the world?
Top Ten Movies: Wonka
Wonka, wonka, doompety doo, wonka is number one at the box office, pushing Aquaman to number two.
Moments in Time: Mahatma Gandhi
On Jan. 12, 1948, pacifist and spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi began his final fast. Eighteen days later, he was assassinated…
Strange But True: Biting the Nose
In 1837, Thomas Saverland took Caroline Newton to court for biting off part of his nose after he forcibly kissed her at a party.
Top Ten World's Largest Meteorites
These are some very very big space rocks… or meteorites as the scientists say.