"Next time you go to a Thai restaurant, look for a framed picture of a dark-haired, skinny, bespectacled guy with a well-decorated white military..." more...
"Who is the first to make a non-stop transatlantic flight? Charles Lindbergh, right? Wrong! These guys did it eight years earlier, flying from St...." more...
"You know Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, right? Of course... the first to summit Mt. Everest, the tallest mountain in the world. May 1953. ..." more...
"Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin: first men on the moon, Apollo 11, July 1969. Michael Collins: orbited the moon in the command module, so the other..." more...
"Even small children know of Paul Revere's midnight ride from Boston to Lexington to warn revolution leaders and people in general of approaching..." more...
"A learning disorder characterized by the inability to spell English words without shortening them ridiculously (e.g. "E-Z," "thru"), a tendency to..." more...
"This refers to "Proclamation 7547" by George W. Bush, made on July 25, 2001: ".... Now, Therefore, I, George W. Bush, President of the United States..." more...
"Al Yankovic: "My pancreas attracts every other pancreas in the universe with a force proportional to the product of their masses and inversely..." more...
"Al Yankovic: "They offered to transport me back to any point in history that I would care to go and so I told them send me back to last Thursday..." more...
"When I first heard the word "sheetbend" spoken, I thought I heard "sheepbend" and assumed that it was a knot that shepherds used for some reason." more...
"David Guterson's novel about Godzilla and the challenge of other Japanese Americans in the cold, wet rainforests of Washington's Olympic Peninsula." more...
"Poor little Lucy Pevensie's wardrobe is garish and threadbare, but is that sufficient reason for Aslan and Mr. Tumnus to tread it underfoot and bury..." more...
"In this collaboration by Dickens and Steinbeck, we read the story of a poor young orphan migrant laborer in the orchards of the Sacramento Valley..." more...
"Thus in plain terms: i not so very handy
Hath naught dexterity to pound a nail-
And so the screw. Its narrow groove doth mock me.
For am I he am..." more...
"Amon Goeth discovers Oskar Schindler's deception and picks Schindler off from his porch with a rifle as Schindler at morning muster picks out his..." more...
"Pale, emaciated sportwriter George Plimpton tries out at quarterback for an NFL team and barely lives long enough to write this tome about his..." more...
"Sunny is sensitive about her hairless pate, a word which here means the billiard-ball-like top of her noggin. In fact, she sharpens her canines on..." more...
"Agatha Christie's newest whodunnit. Can Anna's death be blamed on the jealous rage of the Thai king's wife or are more sinister forces at work?" more...
"In this second book of the Tolkein trilogy, Samwise Gamgee gives Gollum a red cloth and Smeagol a blue cloth. These ostensibly are to more..." more...
"Henry Fleming finds it easy to lose his yellow streak when he attacks the Rebs from a barge far out in the river with a score of long range cannon!" more...
"The caretaker finally mows the grass on the famous bunny hill. Fiver, Hazel, and the other residents now must come and go without any foliage to..." more...
"But once you print it on the page, the page is no longer blank. You therefore must instead print "This page intentionally left blank, except for the..." more...
"No... I mean yes! So isolated and quiet. I slept on the beach once, and it was like I washed ashore and was the only person who'd ever been there. ..." more...
"Boiled peanuts suck. I never tried the peanut soup. We used to eat the peanuts raw all the time, picking the leftovers from harvested fields before..." more...
"Thanks for the suggestions! I added a few of them to the list. I actually considered Rappahannock for my original list, but as far as I can tell,..." more...
"Actually, this one now appears in almost all English dictionaries, because after being bashed with it for five or six decades, the linguists have..." more...
"Thanks for the additions! Skipvia, I also thought of the 'n', but I couldn't think of a good way to add it as a word. There's also "o'" as in "Bits..." more...
"I had an economics professor who coined this phrase and used it to keep us honest. A man-who story is any line of logic that begins along the lines..." more...