on 06-03-2013 18:17
on 06-03-2013 18:17
In 1881, US humour magazine Puck published the world's first emoticons. pic.twitter.com/G4z9ZpFEuZ
on 02-06-2013 16:14
02-06-2013 17:04 - edited 02-06-2013 17:09
02-06-2013 17:04 - edited 02-06-2013 17:09
I like the theory that it was done for balance, the first four hours have only I, the second use V and the third X.
Sadly that doesn't work for the Shepherd Gate Clock at Greenwich which has a 24 hour face.
on 30-07-2013 00:38
on 30-07-2013 00:38
Energizer has trademarked 'battery bunnies' in North America, so the Duracell Bunny is banned from the continent.
on 30-07-2013 01:40
on 30-07-2013 01:40
The Diatomyidae rodent family was thought to have been extinct for 11 million years until one was found on a kebab in Laos.
30-07-2013 10:47 - edited 30-07-2013 10:48
30-07-2013 10:47 - edited 30-07-2013 10:48
What the Earth and our moon look like from Saturn:
on 12-08-2013 13:37
on 12-08-2013 13:37
Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia is, rather ironically, the official term for a person who is terrified of long words.
on 12-08-2013 15:08
on 12-08-2013 15:08
I really cannot pronounce that word at all!
on 12-08-2013 15:11
on 12-08-2013 15:11
on 20-08-2013 13:53
on 20-08-2013 13:53
There is a fogbow?
This rare phenomena, named a fog bow, was spotted by Sam Dobson during a recent expedition to the North Pole. pic.twitter.com/Y4JAPa24Tc
on 20-08-2013 16:06
on 20-08-2013 16:06
A bear named Wojtek was adopted by Polish soldiers in WWII – it drank beer, smoked and ate cigarettes, could salute and carried ammunition.