Category: Interesting Stories

You might think that once you’ve seen one flag you’ve seen them all, at least when it comes to their shape. After all, all national flags are rectangular, right? That’s true for all national flags except one—Nepal. Yes, Nepal’s national flag has the unique distinction of being the world’s only non-quadrilateral national flag. It has […]

If you’ve ever been to Minnesota, you probably noticed that the people are fairly nice but a little bit quirky. After all, besides being the “Land of 10,000 Lakes,” it happens to be the home of Garrison Keillor and the setting for the surreal film Fargo. It is also a place where people like to […]

Sometime between 1:30 a.m. and 2:00 a.m. on June 16, 1959, Superman was shot in the head and killed in his Los Angeles home. It wasn’t really Superman, of course, but George Reeves—the man who played him in the popular 1950s television series. His death was ruled a suicide, but there were (and still are) […]

Urban legends are a lot of fun to share when you sit around a table with your friends and family. There’s the one that says gang members purposely drive around with their headlights off at night as part of a gang initiation. When an unsuspecting do-gooder flashes his or her headlights to let the gang […]

We’ve all had it happen to us at least once in our lives: we sit down to eat in a restaurant where we’ve never been, and suddenly we get that feeling that we’ve been there before. Sometimes we even know where certain things are. How uncanny! Of course, that feeling is called déjà vu, which […]

If you’re about forty-five or older, you probably remember hearing during the 1970s about how “killer bees” were making their way north and would be taking over the United States by the 1990s. It was actually quite a scare. There were numerous documentaries filmed about it and several movies were produced—most notably the 1978 Irwin […]

Why did Columbus have such a difficult time acquiring funding for his expeditions to Asia? Most people would probably say: “Because everyone thought that the world was flat.” Chances are, you were probably taught this in grade school and the idea just persisted into adulthood. I know this because I, too, was taught this as […]

Recent polls show that about half of all people believe in extraterrestrial (alien) life, so there’s a good chance that you are one of those people. It seems logical to believers that with all of the stars and planets out there, at least one of them has to have life. …and then there are all […]

With everything that the modern world has to offer (from the Internet to television and numerous sports-related pastimes), we really have no reason to experience boredom. But of course it still happens. Maybe we are victims of sensory overload or perhaps we’ve just become spoiled from all the technology at our disposal. Have you ever […]