A friend and I were watching some old James Bond movies and talking about their grandiose evil plans. The conversation turned to melting the polar ice caps and flooding the […]

Over years of buying pet food, I have noticed the “wet” varieties purport to be made from any number of meats and fishes. I can recall cat and/or dog food […]

What’s the deal with the Eiffel Tower? I mean what is it, actually? — Snowboardsweety1 A shallow individual might venture that it’s a tower named after a guy called Eiffel. […]

The current ad campaign for Samuel Adams beer makes the somewhat dubious claim that the company’s beer, stored in brown bottles, is better preserved than beer in clear or green […]

I think wine and beer have some microorganisms in them, but their alcohol concentration must make them sterile, right? That’s why they can be used as antiseptics in an emergency. […]

On the radio, a spruiker from a mattress company claimed it was “common knowledge” that a human sweats a liter of water every night, and for health reasons you should […]

I’ve found numerous references in Alaskan gold rush literature to a scam by the Trans-Alaskan Gopher Company that purported to sell trained gophers that would dig the tundra and come […]

A colleague told me that after wars, the male-female ratio at birth increases. I found several articles mentioning this but none explaining it. Any truth? – Edgard Let’s take it […]

Years ago I watched on TV the “Battle of the Sexes” tennis match between Bobby Riggs and Billie Jean King. Just before the match it was announced that King would […]

I recently saw a TV special with a segment about the German fleet that scuttled itself at Scapa Flow after World War I. They mentioned that metal salvaged from those […]

Which scenario uses less energy in home heating, and thus saves more money: (a) before going to bed, turning the thermostat down from 68 degrees Fahrenheit to 60, then turning […]

Sorry if this question is too graphic, but I’m baffled by Japanese tentacle porn. Why are there so many rapist octopuses living in the Land of the Rising Sun? — […]