The McDonald’s Menu Song was an instant-win promotion created as part of an advertising campaign for McDonalds. It ran from 1988 to early 1989. This is how the promotion worked. Listen to the album, and if it played all the way through, without the singers…

Sunanda Kumariratana (Thai: สุนันทากุมารีรัตน์; RTGS: Sunantha Kumarirat, 10 November 1860 – 31 May 1880) was a queen consort of Siam. She was a daughter of Siamese King Mongkut (Rama IV) and Princess Consort Piam. She was the half-sister and first wife of…

If your cold, cold heart doesn’t melt at some point during Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, the documentary about Fred “Mister” Rogers, well, I don’t...

American-Canadian animated series

A microwave works by passing radio waves at a frequency of 2.45 gigahertz through any food. Radio waves at this frequency have an interesting property: they are absorbed by water and fats. When

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You think you know Steve Jobs? Think again, here are 50 interesting facts of the Apple founder and the company he helped create.

A declaration of war by Canada is a formal declaration issued by the Government of Canada (the federal Crown-in-Council) indicating that a state of war exists between Canada and another nation. It is an exercise of the Royal Prerogative on the constitutional…

Hawaiian bartender

The four months Keanu Reeves spent learning martial arts pays off handsomely in

It was once a sign of virility and masculinity - whatever happened to the high heel?

philosophical paradox

Benjamin Franklin FRS FRSA FRSE (January 17, 1706 [O.S. January 6, 1705] – April 17, 1790) was an American polymath and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Franklin was a leading writer, printer, political philosopher, politician, Freemason…

Bird rediscovered after four-year absence in California but original owner lets parrot stay with adoptive family

2004 film by Jared Hess

Depression is often referred to as the blues. New research suggests it should actually be called the grays. To someone who is depressed, the world can seem flat or dull. This was long thought to be purely psychological. It turns out, though, that dep...

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Orwell, like thousands around the globe today, struggled with tuberculosis for many years before finally succumbing to the disease

Scientists have found the flipside to being hangry

In 1958, James Hanover Thompson and his friend David Simpson — both African American, both children — were accused of kissing a girl who was white. They were arrested, and taken to jail. Prosecutors sought a stiff penalty — living in reform school until they…

The following is the filmography for American actor, producer, and director Danny DeVito. He has appeared in the films One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), Car Wash (1976), Terms of Endearment (1983), Romancing the Stone (1984) and its sequel The Jewel…