Curiosities

For centuries, lighthouses and their keepers helped ships avoid catastrophe. Thanks to GPS, they’re all but obsolete. But that doesn’t mean you still can’t live in one of these cherished structures and enjoy a hermetic existence with a great...

The ancient Olympics ran ten times longer than the modern Olympics. The Games were held at least 293 times from 776 BC to 393 AD. That means the ancient version had a consecutive run of 1,169 years vs. the...

First caught on camera in 2007, the Fresno Nightcrawler looks like a pair of pants that can move on its own.TwitterAn image claiming to show the Fresno Nightcrawler. The word “cryptid” often conjures images of legendary creatures like Bigfoot or...

In late May 2023, readers asked Snopes if reports were true that a Florida school had banned National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman's poem, "The Hill We Climb." The claim had been widely repeated by the news media. For...

There may never be consensus about the world’s biggest or “best” movie star, but there is usually one person always in the discussion: Harrison Ford. The actor, who turns 81 on July 13, has starred in some of the...

We didn’t realize anyone enjoyed ironing enough to actually keep up with it much less make it a sport, but extreme ironing is a real thing.What is extreme ironing?Extreme ironing, also known as EI, is a unique and...

Claim: A photograph authentically shows physicist Stephen Hawking once attended a conference sponsored by financier Jeffrey Epstein in the Caribbean. Rating:On May 18, 2023, a Twitter user shared a photograph of the late physicist Stephen Hawking sitting with a group...

Experts think they’ve finally figured out why more than 20 severed feet have been found on the beaches of the Salish Sea near Vancouver and Seattle since 2007.Seattle & King County Public HealthOne of the Salish Sea feet was...

From groceries to real estate to utilities, inflation is everywhere. If you’re feeling helpless in the face of it, you might consider taking a cue from Gen Z and returning to an old-school form of budgeting: carrying wads of...

For decades, the Toynbee Tiles have been appearing on the streets of Philadelphia and other cities across America bearing bizarre inscriptions — but no one knows who is behind them or what purpose they serve.TwitterOne example of a Toynbee...