Facts

16/01/2023

15/01/2023

15/01/2023

Despite World War 1, being over 100 years ago, France still recovers 900 tons of unexploded munitions (mostly from that war) every year.

15/01/2023

There is a Catholic Saint of Beer. Saint Arnold of Soissons saved the lives of many by urging them to drink beer rather than water that was spreading the plague. Boiling during the brewing process killed the pathogens.

12/01/2023

In the first few presidential elections, only white, male landowners could vote. Less than 5% of the U.S. population voted.

11/01/2023

After Boromir had a dream urging him to seek Rivendell to the north, it took him a hundred and ten days to arrive, just barely making it in time for Elrond's council. Tolkien wrote that the "courage and hardihood required was not fully recognized by the narrative."

09/01/2023

09/01/2023

Leonardo da Vinci deliberately left errors in the designs of his inventions, in order to prevent it from being put to practice by unauthorized people.

07/01/2023

BuzzWinkle, a moose from Anchorage, Alaska who frequently roamed the city drunk from eating fermented crab apples and more than once was found ripping down Christmas lights with his antlers or passed out in the street downtown