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 ...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 ...Read More