Trivia & Fun Facts
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-20 | Author:Boese, Alex [Boese, Alex]
2. SEX Heart Rate During Intercourse In 1927 doctors Ernst Boas and Ernst Goldschmidt invented the cardiotachometer. This medical instrument allowed physicians to do something never before possible—measure the heart ...
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Science & Scientists
January 28,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-12-26 | Author:Lewis, Dan [Lewis, Dan]
BACON OF THE SEA WHERE PIGS SWIM The Bahamas is made up of roughly 700 islands scattered southeast of Florida and north of Cuba. One of those islands, Staniel Cay, ...
( Category:
Trivia
December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-12-26 | Author:Brian Thornton
50 WILLIAM LORIMER The “Blond Boss of Chicago” Bribing His Way into the U.S. Senate (1861–1934) “When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether ...
( Category:
Mesopotamia
December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-18 | Author:Amazon Reviewers [Reviewers, Amazon]
Most Helpful Customer Reviews 306 of 340 people found the following review helpful Sigma 200–500-mm Telephoto Lens By Christopher A. Simmons “C. Alan Simmons Fine Home Building, Inc.”, February 19, ...
( Category:
Parodies
December 27,2014 )
epub, pdf, mobi |eng | 2003-12-31 | Author:David Feldman
Many medical problems, such as viral or bacterial infections or allergies can cause your nose to run. But the nose’s response to cold is a little different, as Marks explains: ...
( Category:
Humor
December 8,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-12-31 | Author:John Lloyd & John Mitchinson
Where was football invented? Not in England, but in China. The Chinese played football for over 2,000 years before the English claimed it. Cuju or tsu’ chu – literally ‘kick-ball’ ...
( Category:
Trivia
December 8,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-05-31 | Author:Farquhar, Michael [Farquhar, Michael]
3 They Just Can’t Be Etruscted Millions of visitors to New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art were awed for half a century by two large warrior statues (and a huge ...
( Category:
Political
December 5,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2006-09-14 | Author:McKean, Erin [McKean, Erin]
The study of slugs is limacology. (The lima bean is not related, being named for the capital of Peru.) The study of cooking is magirology. The study of entrails is ...
( Category:
Vocabulary
November 27,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-10-29 | Author:Cracked.com
FIGURE 5.11 In hindsight, there may have been a less violent way to illustrate this point. Bullets Don’t Explode Everything In the movies, bullets and anything mildly flammable have a ...
( Category:
Parodies
November 24,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-30 | Author:Stall, Sam [Stall, Sam]
A scene from the 2005 direct-to-video film The Beast of Bray Road. After that, there were no more appearances for years. Media attention faded, and news reports dried up. But ...
( Category:
Unexplained Mysteries
November 18,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-12-28 | Author:Cracked.Com
Where it really gets weird . . . In 2008, the Wall Street Journal reported on a series of experiments being conducted with brain scanners in Germany, Norway, and the ...
( Category:
Parodies
November 11,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-10-20 | Author:John Lloyd & John Mitchinson [Lloyd, John & Mitchinson, John]
Why did sportsmen start going into huddles? It had nothing to do with team-building. The huddle was invented at Gallaudet University, a college for the deaf in Washington DC, as ...
( Category:
Humor
November 11,2014 )
epub |eng | 2007-08-07 | Author:John Lloyd & John Mitchinson [Lloyd, John & Mitchinson, John]
What are violin strings made from? Violin strings are not made of catgut, and never have been. This is a myth started by medieval Italian violin-makers who had discovered that ...
( Category:
Trivia
November 11,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-22 | Author:Mason Currey [Currey, Mason]
Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010) “My life has been regulated by insomnia,” Bourgeois told an interviewer in 1993. “It’s something that I have never been able to understand, but I accept it.” ...
( Category:
Creativity & Genius
November 7,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-05-18 | Author:Brian Thornton [Thornton, Brian]
50 MARCUS SALVIUS OTHO The Emperor as Scheming Pretty Boy ( A.D. 32–69) When civil war in the balance lay, and mincing Otho might have won the day, bloodshed too ...
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Mesopotamia
October 1,2014 )
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