When taught to use money, a group of capuchin monkeys responded rationally to simple incentives such as exchanging the silver discs for treats, budgeting for foods they liked and buying more of something when the price dropped. More

Steve Fossett, an American businessman, and adventurer, became the first person to cross the Pacific Ocean on a solo, non-stop flight in a hot-air balloon from South Korea to Canada, 25 years ago in February 1995. In 2002 Steve also became the first person to fly around the world, alone, non-stop in a similar hot-air […] More

Couples who go on a honeymoon are 41 percent less likely to file for divorce. More

More than twice as many soldiers died from disease than battle injuries during the American Civil War. More

There’s a tiny little island in the Philippines called Vulcan Point Island that is an island within a lake, within an island, within a lake, within an island in the ocean. More

'In a jiffy' is a common slang term for 'quickly' or 'a moment' but jiffy is also a unit of measurement in physics. More

2050 is as far away as 1990 More

The 2020 Groundhog Day results are in and aside from the outlier, Shubenacadie Sam in Nova Scotia the remaining North American ground squirrels didn’t see their shadows, predicting an early spring. More

The vocal distress signal ‘Mayday!’ comes from the French term ’M’aider,’ which means ‘help me.’ More

If you are a woman who is very old, very young, completely broke, rich, single, stubborn, hangs out with other women, has ever had an argument, has too many children, has no children, has a birthmark, or has had milk turn sour in your fridge, you may have been considered a witch in 1692. More