Tag: facts
Poland’s Artillery Bear Wojtek Was a World War II Hero
It’s true, in World War II Poland really had a bear named Wojtek who was a private in the military! Wojtek was a Syrian brown…
20 Facts About The Nightmare Before Christmas
Can you believe In total there were 109,440 frames taken for this movie!?! Check out these 20 interesting and geeky facts about the making of…
Man Discovers The Lost Underground City of Derinkuyu
This is the crazy story of how a man accidently rediscovered the Derinkuyu underground city in Turkey. In 1963, while doing renovations on his home, a…
The Yale Library Fire Suppression System
So you’ve probably heard the claim that if there’s a fire at the Yale University library, all of the oxygen is removed from the building…
Six Star Wars Facts You Didn’t Know
LOL! These six silly “facts” about Star Wars that you didn’t know are pretty much the ultimate sci-fi geek troll. They belong right up there…
Appalachian vs Rocky Mountains
Just looking at elevation when comparing the Appalachian vs Rocky Mountains isn’t really fair. So the perfect response to this person claiming “the Appalachian mountains…
Humans are Space Orcs – Facts
LOL! You know we love humans are space orcs posts and these human “facts” are just great! So for today in humans are terrifying space…
How a Medieval Village Stopped the Spread of the Plague
Here is the super interesting story pulled from plague literature of the medieval era about how the small village of Eyam in Derbyshire stopped the…
Understanding How Statistics Work
This post about understanding statistics is super helpful for people who may be confused about how they work. Combining math and wording like this can…
Types of Dragons Guide and Family Tree
@drakthug drew this handy simple dragon guide. Then biologist Drosophilamelanobastard decided to create a more scientifically rigorous trait based phylogeny (family tree) assigning character states as 0 if…