Jim Delligatti, The Father Of The Big Mac (Cool Weird Awesome 1312)
For National Cheeseburger Day, here’s the story of the guy who brought us one of the world’s most massive and massively popular burgers.
Jets Can Burn Less Fuel Thanks To Electric Towing (Cool Weird Awesome 719)
Taxiing accounts for about 5 percent of a jet's fuel consumption, so one way to make flying greener is making taxiing greener, like through an all-electric towing system.
W.C. Handy Laid The Foundation For Modern Music (Cool Weird Awesome 420)
The man known as the Father of the Blues, W.C. Handy, was born on this day in 1873, and it's not exaggerating to say rock and popular music wouldn't have played out the same way without him.
The Speed Camera That Thought It Caught A Car Going 437 MPH (Cool Weird Awesome 341)
There was a story out of Italy where a driver got a ticket for driving 437 miles per hour. That's almost three times as fast as the car could legitimately go.
You Can’t Beat Furniture Grown On The Farm (Cool Weird Awesome 139)
Gavin and Alice Munro run a furniture farm in England. That's right, rather than turning trees into lumber and using that to make chairs, tables and sofas, they shape living trees into furniture, to be more sustainable.
Look what I made
It's a kitchen table!