If you ever played softball or got hit by one you know that they don’t really live up to the name. They’re actually pretty hard. So why call them softballs? Like most things it starts way back in history with a wacky story… In 1887, some alumni of both Harvard and Yale were hanging out…
You may have noticed this before when you’re in an elevator. The star that’s next to the number of the floor. I always thought it meant “ground floor” but that’s not the case. The star represents which floor has the closest outside exit of the building. That’s why sometimes it’s on the first floor, sometimes…
Today was the 126th running of the Boston Marathon. When and why did people start running Marathons anyway? According to the legend throughout history, a messenger in Greece had to run roughly 25-miles from a town named Marathon to Athens to announce a Greek military victory. Once he arrived and gave the message he immediately…
As big of a holiday Easter is, most people don’t know how it’s determined which Sunday Easter will fall on each year. Here is how they figure it out. It has to do with the moon. It always falls on the first Sunday AFTER the first full moon… AFTER March 21st. A fun tidbit for…
Heading into Easter weekend you’re bound to see a lot of egg related things the next few days. Egg hunts, painting eggs, candy eggs, but why are eggs such a big part of Easter? It goes back to the ancient pagan celebrations around spring time. Eggs are symbols of fertility, new life, and the start…
Easter is coming up this weekend. You may have already started eating boxes of Peeps though. What exactly are those things made of? Obviously it starts with the soft marshmallow based, which they then roll in colored sugar. For the little eyes they use an edible wax. Some other fun Peep facts to drop on…
Now that technology is getting more advanced with vehicles we are seeing more and more autonomous/driverless cars on the road. Mostly in big cities. But what happens if one of them gets pulled over?! Well… that exact thing happened recently in San Francisco. The police pulled over the car at a red light. When the…
Anyone who has owned a dog has wondered this before. Can they actually understand what we as humans are saying?! Some people who’s dogs never listen might not believe this, but dogs do have the ability to learn around 165 words. Obviously shorter words are easier for them. Also words with hard consonants like T…
The internet has been buzzing over the debate on what flavor the famous Wendy’s frosty actually is. I always thought it was straight chocolate, but turns out that’s not true. It’s actually a chocolate-vanilla swirl! That explains why the color is so light I guess. The reason is because when they were first coming up…
Today is opening day for the baseball season to celebrate here’s a baseball mystery. Why do the players wear numbers on the back of their jerseys? The first baseball team to ever do it back in the 1920s were the New York Yankees. The reasoning behind it was for the team to wear the numbers…