InterestingShit

A remote hunk of rock is the subject of a territorial dispute between two very polite countries who leave booze everytime they claim it back.

The White House is a symbol of American pride, but at one point it was falling to pieces. And by that we mean literally, and not just figuratively (for a change).

The pioneers that we now know as the Pilgrims were anxious, given many tales of vicious tribes, about how they might be welcomed on the shore of the Americas. And yet the first words they heard from a Native’s mouth were: ‘May I have a beer, please?’ in perfectly intoned and inflected English and accompanied by a girthy smile.

In 1919 a 25-foot high wall of sickly sweet molasses obliterated Boston’s North End, leaving a path of death & destruction in its wake.

Chris Columbus, you blowhard. There’s some pretty enticing evidence out there that some hairy vikings discovered the New World before you!

Brooklyn used to have a mind-blowing amount of weeds. Or should we say weed, as in the kind that people smoke and it makes them…chillaxed?

Doc knows the best way to treat a sick toddler is get them buzzed on illegal narcotics, or so said the medical thinking of the early 1900s.

Time has turned this mythic tale of a woman's foray through the upper ranks of the Catholic Church into more fiction than fact. Where does the truth end & the legend begin?

We're getting closer to science fiction becoming science reality thanks to nanorobotics and researchers studying the use of 'spermbots' to help give the slow swimmers of the sperm world a much-needed kick right in the flagella.

New Orleans is famous for a lot of things, including great food and amazing music. There's a darker past the city was built upon, and now it's taking major steps to remove the Confederate monuments erected for what many think were all the very wrong reasons.

The winds are gale-force & the temperatures numbing but a new breed of surfers are flocking to the Great Lakes to catch a face-freezing wave.

Remembrance Day is observed on November 11th in several countries. Why?

The events of September 11, 2001 will never be forgotten. Through the darkness of that day shone a light as one small Canadian community opened their doors & their hearts to stranded airline passengers from around the globe.

Three kids on summer vacation in the early 80s decide to attempt a shot-for-shot remake of Raiders of the Lost Ark, and it took them over seven glorious fire-and-explosion-filled years to do it.

New Yorkers are a hardy breed, & the amazing fact that their not-too-distant relatives used to eat raw oysters from the Hudson proves it.

Segregated bathrooms & rampant workplace sexism didn’t stop three highly educated African American women from helping NASA reach the stars.

The author’s adventures took him to the skies & across Earth’s toughest terrains, but his final tale ends with a mysterious plane crash.

It was a growing community with schools & churches, yet it was deemed expendable enough to be demolished to make room for Central Park. Why?

How did a pea-soup fog turn fatal overnight? Millions of homes burning coal in furnaces non-stop for weeks had something to do with it.

Looking for a safe place to build aircraft during World War II? Why not go underground to the Central line in London?

Now in its 22nd year, this program and the works of Shakespeare are helping inmates re-discover life as a productive member of their environment.

Sure, bees may sting us on occasion but it's a small price to pay for all the great stuff we get to eat because of them. It's not just about the honey-if bees were to disappear our diets would never be the same.

Cancer victim Terry Fox was a lot of things to a lot of people, but thanks to what began with his cross-Canada Marathon of Hope his epic story continues to provide two things vital in the fight against cancer: inspiration and funding.

Mani Manithan is a man with a plan, & it’s meant to be a little backwards. For 28 years he’s walked in reverse in the name of global unity.