Why does Winamp whip the llama’s ass?
Here’s another one I had to look up after a conversation this week. We were reminiscing about the music player that started the MP3 movement. | learn more
Here’s another one I had to look up after a conversation this week. We were reminiscing about the music player that started the MP3 movement. | learn more
I heard this in a podcast and just had to look it up. The Monday after we “spring forward” and lose an hour has a 25% higher incidence of heart attacks than other Mondays throughout the year. | learn more
“Every second on Earth, 100 lightning bolts strike the planet. That’s about 8 million strikes per day, and 3 billion a year, on average. But as this map of nearly 9 billion lightning strikes shows, lightning is not evenly distributed around the world.” | learn more
Horses were, for a long time, quite prominent in the US: 25 million horses for 100 million people in 1915. They were often the most valuable asset of a family, and they were fairly easy to move. So, horse thievery was a thing. Therefore, horse thief detective organizations were a thing. | learn more
“SaaStr CRO Dayna Rothman’s true story of how she was catfished by an AE candidate…” | learn more
If you’ve ever wondered why all cities seem to have giant water towers, this is the link for you. | learn more
“Discovery Wildlife Park in Alberta faces two charges for failing to notify officials the bear was leaving the zoo.” YES, there is a video of this bear eating ice cream. | learn more
This post includes an interesting chart that shows how wealth is allocated among different asset classes, depending on net worth from $10K to $1 Billion. | learn more
“More than half of the paintings in a museum in French artist Étienne Terrus’ birthplace were fake.” | learn more
Curiously enough, the goal is to make things less confusing for Africa’s last remaining absolute monarchy. The King is frustrated that his country keeps being confused with Switzerland. | learn more