2-21-09

Hindu religious festivals often feature cow piss drinking.

2-18-09

Have you ever seen one of those drawings that spells a word, and when you turn it upside down it still spells the word? Turns out those things have a name -- ambigrams.

2-17-09

I was disappointed to learn that Christian Bale, one of my favorite actors, apparently has a slight temper problem.

2-16-09

Gleeking.

2-14-09

The ten-sided die (d10) is the only die used in Dungeons & Dragons that is not a Platonic solid.

2-13-09

Based on the current understanding of aerodynamics, bumblebees shouldn't be able to fly.

2-12-09

The platypus is the only poisonous mammal.

2-9-09

Romans played with d20's.

2-6-09

The opposite of misogyny is misandry.

2-5-09

The job that I thought was going to last two months -- lasts six days.

Update: it's been canceled! Completely! God damn it!

2-3-09

A guy robbed two 711's in Colorado with a Klingon sword.

2-2-09

U.S. soldiers in Vietnam called purple smoke grenades "Goofy Grape."

1-27-09

In certain types of forests, you can find north by looking at which side of the trees moss grows on.

1-26-09

GMAT essays are graded by a computer algorithm.

1-23-09

A Texas high school basketball coach was fired after his team won a game 100-0.

1-19-09

The term plushie denotes people who like to have sex with stuffed animals. This is different from furry, which denotes people who merely dress up as stuffed animals and then have sex with other people who are also dressed up as stuffed animals.

1-15-09

Hockey players in the NHL didn't wear helmets until 1979.

1-12-09

Paradoxical undressing.

1-10-09

Americans watch 5.5 hours of TV a day (on average). This means the average American spends nearly as much time watching TV as they do working.

1-9-09

PETA recently launched a campaign to raise sympathy for fish by rebranding them as "sea kittens."

"Would people think twice about ordering fish sticks if they were called sea kitten sticks?"

Guess what? I'm not joking.