The famous Burger King "Bun Halves" logo made its debut in 1969 and endured, more or less unchanged, ever since. The logo, meant to resemble a hamburger, features the restaurant's name in red lettering on two lines, sandwiched between two yellow bun halves. The Bun Halves logo is Burger King's

In Thailand, the left hand is considered unclean, so you should not eat with it. Also, pointing with one finger is considered rude and is only done when pointing to objects or animals, never humans.

The Wawelberg Group was a Polish special-forces unit which began the 1921 Third Silesian Uprising by blowing up seven rail bridges linking Upper Silesia with the rest of Germany.

In 1904, a Georgist Quaker, Lizzie Magie, patented a game called The Landlord's Game with the object of showing how rents enrich property owners and impoverish tenants. She knew that some people could find it hard to understand why this happened and what might be done about it, and she thought that if the rent problem and the Georgist solution ...Read more

Yes. Today, a silver medal represents second place, but when the modern Olympics began in 1896, silver medals were awarded to first place winners. Gold at that time was considered an inferior medal to silver. In 1904, gold medals replaced silver as the prize for first-place winners. The medals given out are not pure gold, though. They're ...Read more

Haggis, a traditional Scottish dish, is made from the lungs, heart, and liver of a sheep, chopped with onions, seasonings, suet, and oatmeal, and then broiled in a bag made from the sheep's stomach.

While in Fraunces Tavern in New York City, George Washington bid farewell to his officers in 1783.

Men over the age of 24 shave an average of six times a week.

The red, yellow, and dark blue Renaissance uniform worn by the Swiss Guard at the Vatican was designed by Michaelangelo. It is one of several costumes worn by the Gendarmeria Pontifica.

Sedimentary rocks are used to make cement, glass, fertilizer, baking soda, laundry bleach, and aspirin.

The Sun provides our planet with 126,000,000,000,000 horsepower of energy every day. This means that 54,000 horsepower is delivered to every man, woman, and child on Earth in each 24-hour period.

Russian submarine designers are building military submarines out of concrete. Because concrete becomes stronger under high pressure, "C-subs" could settle down to the bottom in very deep water and wait for enemy ships to pass overhead. Concrete would not show up on sonar displays (it looks just like sand or rocks), so the passing ships would not...Read more

The sport with the largest expenses (medical, legal, and others) due to injuries treated in U.S. emergency rooms in 1995 was bicycling, with costs exceeding $4 billion. More than half a million bicycling injuries were documented. A huge percentage of those injuries were head injuries, which could have been prevented had riders worn protective ...Read more

Lucreta Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. American women had begun their pursuit of the right to vote in the early 1800's. However, it wasn't until 1848 that Lucreta Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton convened the first Women's Right Convention in Seneca Falls, NY.

During World War II, the U.S. Navy's world champion chess player, Reuben Fine, calculated, on the basis of positional probability, where enemy submarines might surface.

By U.S. definition, a "hurricane" is any wind force exceeding 74 miles per hour; in the Western Pacific, such a phenomenon is called a "typhoon" and, near Australia, it's a "willy-willy."

The bulbs and leaves of the daffodil contain poisonous crystals which only a select few insects can eat without suffering an agonizing death. While squirrels and other rodents won't eat them, they may dig up the bulbs.

Sports historians have traced roller skating to the early 1800s when an unknown Dutchman sought to find a warm-weather equivalent to ice skating. He decided to attach wooden disks to shoes; after a short period of refinement, roller skating became a popular pastime in Holland. The sport attained even greater popularity among the North American ...Read more

Halley's comet, one of the most famous ever known, returns to Earth every 76 years, and has been observed and recorded for more than 3,000 years.

Several record albums accompanied the pandemonium. The band was called, "Mr. Gasser and the Weirdos." Of course, Ed was the leader of the band. The songs told descriptive tales about the Rat Fink's gang and their favorite pastimes, which were mostly hot rodding and surfing. The basic message was being a "weirdo" or a "fink" was okay and cool, a ...Read more