Adrenaline Junkie rides Rollercoasters naked for charity (0)
3/09/10 •
A rollercoaster fan has let it all hang out for charity – by taking on some of the countries biggest rides NAKED
Richard Jones, 27, rode Nemesis at Alton Towers in the nude after traveling across America and Europe to tackle 298 different roller coasters and clock up a total of 10,000 rides.
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Fact of the Day: Prussian Kings Unusual Tastes (0)
3/06/10 •
Prussian king Frederick the Great is said to have enjoyed drinking coffee made with champagne instead of water, and occasionally, flavoured with mustard.
Fact of the Day: Wig makers debt leads to revolution (0)
3/05/10 •
The Boston Massacre of 1770 – which left five people dead and sparked a series of rebellions that culminated in the American Revolution – was sparked by an argument over whether a British soldier had paid his wig-maker’s bill. He had, but by the time anybody found that out, it was too late.
Top 10 Most Addictive Websites (1)
3/05/10 •
A list of the 10 most addictive websites of 2010 which includes the likes of Fark, despair.com, 2leep and many more.
Snow sculpture gets a frosty reception (1)
3/04/10 •
Given the amounts of snow North American has been getting recently, its not suprising that a large number of snow sculptures have been appearing. However, a New Jersey family was told by police to cover up their snow sculpture after complaints from neighbours that it was offensive.
4th March: One Buffalo too many !! (1)
3/04/10 •
Here is one for all the literary people out there. ‘Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo’ is an entirely grammatically correct sentence
4th March: Charlie Chaplin looks nothing like himself (1)
3/04/10 •
Charlie Chaplin once entered a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest (which were popular across America when Chaplin first became famous in 1915) in a San Francisco theatre. He lost – not even making it as far as the final round
5 Great Lies in History (1)
3/03/10 •
5. Anna Anderson, alias Anastasia
With the onslaught of the Russian Revolution, the existence of a royal family was intolerable to the Bolsheviks. In 1918, they massacred the royal Romanov family — Czar Nicholas II, his wife, son and four daughters — to ensure that no legitimate heir could later resurface and rally the public for support.
3rd March: When is a hobbit not a hobbit? (0)
3/03/10 •
A hobbit isn’t just a small, hairy-footed creature from The Lord Of The Rings – it also used to be a unit of measurement in Wales.
2nd March: Even rats have lawyers !!! (0)
3/02/10 •
In 1510, priests in Autun, France, brought legal proceedings against the town’s rats because they were eating the barley crop.
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- Plane Crazy! Lego fan spends eight months building a replica of the Airbus A380
- Sculpting using unusual materials
- 23rd February: Unsinkable Sam – the luckiest cat of WWII
- 22nd February: The quietest time in history
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