Two Countries Showed Up At The 1936 Olympics Flying Identical Flags
At the 1936 Summer Games, Liechtenstein and Haiti showed up flying identical blue and red striped flags. Fortunately they found a solution.
Medieval Europeans Really Could Have Banged Coconuts Together, Like In Monty Python
According to a 2017 research paper, that running gag in “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” where the characters keep running around the countryside banging coconuts together... that could’ve happened.
Humans Actually Do Perk Up Their Ears At Interesting Noises
Our entire show is based on the idea that we might say something interesting enough that it might get you to perk up your ears, figuratively speaking. Or, as a team at Saarland University has found, maybe not so figuratively speaking.