Category: Fun Facts

Albert Einstein is regarded by many as being the most intelligent human being to have ever existed, but it seems that he had other aims and targets in life that he was not quite able to achieve. Not content with managing to unravel a number of the mysteries of life and the solar system in […]

The idea of reading the terms and conditions on any website seems to bore us, and yet there may be a very good reason as to why we should pay them closer attention than we had perhaps initially wanted to. To show what we mean, we need to go to the United Kingdom and a […]

When it comes to celebrity assassinations, the killing of John Lennon was certainly a shock to many. However, it seems that there was one person that had an inkling that this kind of thing could happen. It turns out that both John Lennon and Yoko Ono had visited an astrologer some 11 years before his […]

We are all becoming used to reality TV shows that are based on conflict between the main ‘characters’ but it shows that this is what TV executives are really looking for when you check out something that happened with the channel, TLC. The executives there had an idea to create another reality show that was […]

It seems that there is one type of business that is very popular in Wisconsin, a bar. It turns out that they love a bar so much across the state that it has the same number of bars that they do in the whole state of California, a state that has a far superior population. […]

There are just some people that are perfect for being a conman as they have this smoothness about them that just comes across naturally. So, with that in mind, how about this for potentially being the smoothest conman that has ever existed? Back in 1935, Victor Lustig was arrested for selling people a machine that […]

In the world today, we are all pre-occupied with the concept of food having a best before or a sell-by date and we get panic-stricken when we think that we might have strayed over that date. However, it turns out that just eating something that is a few days older than it should be is […]

You would imagine that working for the Queen in places such as Buckingham Palace would mean that you would always be on your best behavior. However, it does seem that this has not always been the case and there is one particular story whereby a member of staff rather quickly became an ex-member of staff […]

Once in a while there will be a documentary that hits the screens that is longer than the average one that you will be used to watching. However, what do you think would be the longest, and potentially the most boring documentary that has ever been produced? The answer comes from Norway and yet even […]

Of course, insane asylums don’t exist anymore since medical professionals have a better understanding of mental illness and also medicine and the effects on the brain. Sadly there is still a lot of ignorance surrounding mental illness, but not as bad as in the 1960s for example. One of Britain’s largest ‘insane asylums’,The Whittington Hospital […]