Or mostly just a reminder. Taking a few moments to pause and observe nature can improve your mood. Literally ‘stopping and smelling the roses’ or noticing things like birds chirping, a dandelion in the side-walk, the sun shining through the window or that tree leaves in the wind look like jazz hands can boost your […]

Penny-farthings, the Victorian era bicycles with the big wheel in the front, got their name from the UK penny and smaller farthing coins of the day. Because the bikes had no gears the oversized wheel allowed one rotation of the pedals to move the bicycle faster. Bonus Fact - One farthing was 1/4th the value […]

‘Kummerspeck’ is the German word used to describe emotional overeating. In English, it most closely translates as ‘grief bacon’ or ‘sorrow flab’.

The first spy satellite launched in 1960 as part of the CIAs Corona program to surveil the USSR and China. To recover the images, buckets of film were parachuted from the disposable space camera and recovered mid-air by Air Force cargo planes. Even in the 1960’s the satellite cameras had a ground resolution of 5 […]

The inventor of the Pringles can and stackable, saddle-shaped chips was so proud of his invention he was buried in one. In 2008 Fred Baur’s ashes were buried inside an Original Pringles can, purchased by his family at Walgreens on the way to the funeral home.