The Hidden Connection:
Dolphins and the Clitoris Debate
Chupa Chups: Dali's Million-Dollar Sucker Punch
Ching Shih: Sailing Seas and Shattering Stereotypes – The Pirate Queen's Reign!
That’s right. In one of the earliest examples of girls seriously kicking guy’s butts in the gender equality stakes, Ching Shih became not only the greatest female pirate but the most successful of all pirates. And she ruled the high seas with an iron first that would make even the toughest male pirates run for the poop deck.
Bowie's Berlin: The Musical Catalyst Behind The Fall of The Wall
How David Bowie helped topple the Berlin Wall. This major protest by those on the eastern side, who simply started out trying to listen to a rock concert, brought great attention to their plight and pressure to bear on political leaders like Mikhail Gorbachev. Two years later, in 1989, The Wall came down for good and the world was changed forever.
From Sin to Spin: How the World's First Roller Coaster Tamed 1884's Wild Souls
What do you think was the thing that would most likely stop you from committing a sin in 1884? Would it have been the meddling of the church? How about society’s puritanical standards of the day? No, in 1884, something much more sensational was used to stop crazed pleasure hounds quenching their desires from Satan’s cup. It was no other than the world's first roller coaster. A fiendishly crafted thrill machine to keep your mind off sex and sin and onto sheer terror as you drop from the sky in a rickety wooden carriage.
Rugby Ball in Space: The Curious Case of WASP103-b, the Unseen Gassy Giant
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it those mushrooms you recently consumed? Fear not, you are not hallucinating. You are merely looking at one of the great oddities of outer space... the rugby ball shaped planet. Discovered in 2014 (and shape confirmed in 2019) the massive, gaseous rugby-ball-shaped planet of WASP103-b, admittedly not the catchiest name, was found in the neighbourhood of the more sexily titled “Hercules” constellation. To give you an idea of its scale it’s double the size of Pluto, the biggest planet in our solar system.
America’s Dark Past: How the Man of Steel Crushed the KKK
You may have thought that Superman’s greatest enemy was the wickedly villainous Lex Luthor. Well in the 1940s Superman did battle with a much more obnoxious group of goons, none other than the infamous KKK. Proving that one good man in a silly costume can beat a thousand evil men in silly costumes, Superman took on those racist rednecks and helped bring down the Ku Klux Klan.
Scent-sational: Are Mosquitoes Attracted to Body Odour?
Every person, no matter how hard they scrub in the shower or how much designer cologne they splash on, emits a body odour. The odours are a byproduct of the waste process that is continually going on in our bodies. In a similar fashion cheeses emit odours that are not dissimilar to those that we humans emit. This odour is enough to confuse the mozzie and send him on a futile mission to extract blood from cheese.
