Weird, Wonderful World
By Brian Boone In the midst of the bright and happy summer blockbuster movie season, let’s take a look into a darker corner of the history of flickering light — these are the sad stories of people who died as the result of accidents and disasters while trying to make a movie. TYRONE POWER Matinee […]
By Brian Boone Here’s a respect-filled look behind the scenes and the making of one of the best school movies of all time, Back to School, starring the legendary Rodney Dangerfield. Last-Minute Rewrite In the original script, approved and used as the film went into production, centered on a character who was a working-class guy who decided […]
By Brian Boone Every cat is special, but these cats are a little bit more special than the rest. ROCKET CAT Most of the first animals sent into space didn’t survive the trip or didn’t make it back to Earth. Not the first cat to leave the planet. In 1963, French engineers sent a rocket […]
Independence Day is a great summer holiday, but lots of world-changing events happened on that date after 1776. Read to find out more.
For LGBT Pride Month, we’ve collected a round-up of icon Oscar Wilde’s wittiest quotes.
If you got a copy of Dr. Seuss’s Oh, The Places You’ll Go! for your graduation, or wondered why you had to wear that silly cap, this post is for you.
Endangered Species Day is a chance for us to reflect on the successes of our protection of the bald eagle, the Lake Erie water snake, and more.
Here are all the wildest, biggest, and strangest new foods on offer at the big league stadiums this year.
Super ducky is here to save the day with factoids, trivia, and mind-boggling stories from across the globe.
From Comedy Central to The Daily Show, here’s a history of public “potshots” and “tank-yous” for Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader.
Here are some women who changed the world, but hardly anybody knows what they did or how they did it.
This Presidents Day let’s look at the best, biggest, and most interesting number-twos of all time—the Vice Presidents of the United States.
To commemorate Black History Month, here’s a list of notable figures often overlooked by history books.
What’s going to happen in 2024? A lot of monumental and weird stuff, if we’re to believe various astrologers, psychics, and science-fiction.
Why are hospitals so cold? Why is urine yellow? How does a gas mask work? Get some answers to popular science questions in our new blog.
Here are some of the most notable, quirky, and fascinating adaptations of Ebenezer Scrooge. (You might be surprised by the most accurate!)
Celebrate the 100th anniversary of The Walt Disney Company with a review of its storied history, from Oswald to Mickey Mouse and beyond.
Top contributor to Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader, Brian Boone, sat down with Arroe Collins to share the inside scoop on the newest edition to the series.
