The BASE in BASE jumping, is an acronym that stands for the four categories of fixed objects you can jump from including a building, antenna, span and earth.

You can pause a YouTube video and hit the comma key to go back one frame or the period key to move forward a frame at a time.

When you eat a pineapple it eats you back. Pineapples are carriers of bromelain, an enzyme that breaks down proteins.

Owl legs are this long.

Flamingo knees are tucked up underneath their feathers close to their body. The part that looks like their knee is actually their ankle!

Chris Farley was the original voice of Shrek. He’d recorded most of his lines before he died, but rather than having an impersonator come in and finish the remaining lines, they hired Mike Myers and completely rewrote and revoiced the film. You can even listen to Chris Farley’s version of Shrek online and listen to […]

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 […]