Category: cultural oddities

Once upon a time in a village, a man appeared and announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for $10 each…

Who is this man, and what is he doing on the U.S. $1 bill?

This is why we don’t marry our sisters.

This is one of the most amazing things I’ve ever seen.

Amazing choreography, from a group of deaf Chinese performers.

The Dark Tower board game - now a flash game!

For many generations the gruesome tale of Sawney Bean and his family of cannibals has scared children and adults alike. It was only when one man escaped and reported an attack which had cost the life of his wife, that a full-scale search for the ruthless killers was undertaken.

From MSNBC - “Through a partially opened underground door, Egyptian authorities gave a peek into the first tomb uncovered in the Valley of the Kings since King Tut’s in 1922. U.S. archaeologists said they discovered the tomb by accident while working on a nearby site.”

Scratch-N-Sniff stickers are the coolest things EVER - just scratch on a picture and release a smell. And guess what? The stickers still work more than 20 years later!!

Here we have the most common toilet in the Western world, a beloved fixture in American lives. Most North American readers will be surprised however, to find out that this is NOT the most common toilet in the …