With the snow coming down this afternoon I thought this would be a good mystery for today. Anytime you see ice even though it’s solid frozen water there is always a layer of liquid on the surface which makes it slippery. Even in the coldest temperatures hundreds of degrees below zero, there is still a…
We’ve all been part of a proposal in one way or another. Being proposed to, seeing someone else get engaged, or even being the one getting down on one knee to pop the big question. But why one knee? The “getting down on one knee” tradition dates all the way back to medieval times in…
You’ve probably yelled at your kids more than a few times about this. “elbow off the table!” I even forgot sometime now as an adult. But why is this such bad manners anyway? It all started back in England in the middle ages apparently. They did not have traditional dining tables back then, just these…
If you’re a decaf coffee drinker you’re probably used to looking for that recognizable orange coffee pot whenever you’re at a restaurant, diner, coffee shop, or in line at Dunkin’. But why is it orange? It actually started back in 1923 as a marketing strategy by the coffee company, Sanka. They were the first ones…
Today Joe Biden was inaugurated as the 46th President of the United States. But why is Inauguration Day always on January 20th? It always hasn’t been that way. George Washington actually took the oath of office in the springtime on April 30, 1789. Back in the 19th century, the Constitution was written to make March 4th…
I always thought it was called pound cake because you “pound” the ingredients to make it. Nope. The real answer is even better. It’s called pound cake because one of the first ever recipes for it called for a pound of butter, a pound of sugar, a pound of eggs and a pound of flour.…
It happens all the time when you get chilly. Those hairs on your arm stand up and you get goosebumps. What causes this though?! It’s all thanks to something called the Arrector pili muscles. They are fan-shaped muscles at the base of each hair follicle. These cause the goosebumps. The way it works is that…
Anytime you see a chef you’ve probably noticed their big white hat with all the pleats in it. Traditionally, the hat is made with 100 pleats. Each pleat is meant to represent the 100 ways to cook an egg! How fun is that?! Photo credit: Getty Images
There are a lot of different theories on this but one study suggest that the dark and light spots on a cow’s coat of hair is actually to confuse the vision of horseflies. The spots somehow change how the polarized light is reflected and stops the flies from landing on the cow. What a cool…
Trick question! They aren’t white at all. Polar bears actually have two layers of clear fur which come across as white to the human eye. Their skin underneath is actually black, highlighted the white effect even more. Photo credit: Getty Images