Two Countries Showed Up At The 1936 Olympics Flying Identical Flags (Cool Weird Awesome 1288)
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 (Cool Weird Awesome 1262)
It’s National Coconut Day, and according to a 2017 research paper in a journal called The Medieval Globe, that running gag in “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” where the [...]
Humans Actually Do Perk Up Their Ears At Interesting Noises (Cool Weird Awesome 339)
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.