The custom of being clean-shaven is said to date back to Alexander the Great, who had a scanty beard and set the fashion. A century later, shaving entered the Roman world in the West and the Eastern world abandoned the ...Read More

City squirrels will eat just about anything, and often, it's the junk food that people offer them that they prefer, like Cracker Jack peanuts. Many naturalists have concluded that a peanut diet is harmful to squirrels: it ...Read More

On the average, women dream more than men and children dream more than adults. Overall, more people dream in black-and-white than in color.

Christmas trees are known to have been popular in Germany as far back as the sixteenth century. In England, they became popular after Queen Victoria's husband Albert, who came from Germany, made a tree part of the ...Read More

Cheetos are a crunchy, cheese-flavored snack made from cornmeal introduced by Frito-Lay in 1948, and currently sell about one billion bags per year in a number of countries. In some markets they are popular enough that the...Read More

Inside an asbestos suit coated with aluminum, a fire fighter may experience a sweaty, but tolerable, 85 degrees to 100 degrees F, while attempting to extinguish an inferno of jet fuel raging at over 2,000 degrees. Aluminum...Read More