Life Down at The Penguin Post Office
A trip to the post office is usually boring at best, and aggravating at worst, if there’s a long line. Things are different at the Penguin Post Office.
Weird, Wonderful World
The 4 Boldest Celebrity Roasts
No Dean Martin making jokes about Sammy Davis Jr., being short here—just famous people who loved coffee so much they started their own coffee companies.
Scandalous Peaches!
In the U.S., we use Valentine’s Day as a way to give that special someone erotically charged gifts and edible aphrodisiacs. In China, they have the Qixi Festival. It fell on August 2 this year, and the hottest (in many senses of the word) gift this year were peaches.
Ask Uncle John Anything: It’s Not Rocket Science
Before the dawn of space travel, what did people say to imply that something wasn’t that difficult to do or understand?
The World’s 3 Newest and Weirdest Amusement Parks
We’re going to Diggerland! Here are three of the newest and most unusual amusement parks in the world.
A Short History of the Elephant Ear
This fried treat can be found in about every carnival, fair, and rodeo you’ll hit this summer. But who first came up with this summertime favorite of many names? Canadians.
Japan’s Poop-tacular New Museum Exhibit
With their dusty dinosaur bones and yawn-inducing artwork, museums often bore the heck out of kids. That probably won’t be the case with the wild, and stinky, exhibit currently running at Tokyo’s National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation. Welcome to the poop museum exhibit!
The World’s Most Terrifying Motel?
A wise man once said that there’s nothing scarier than a clown after midnight. That same man would have absolutely hated the Clown Motel.
Ask Uncle John Anything: Pop-Pop
How did popcorn come to be the quintessential movie snack?
It wasn’t always a popular movie snack—like during the silent film era. Movie exhibitioners didn’t sell popcorn (or any snacks) for silent films, believing that the sound of people eating, slurping, and snacking—especially crunchy, noisy, popcorn—would be distracting and off-putting.
These Places are Literally the Pits
You could book a vacation in Maui or head to Disney World and still wind up in a hotel that’s a total pit. Why settle for that when you can just visit a real pit instead?
The Weirdest Museum in New York City
If you’re heading to the Big Apple this summer, check out this odd attraction: the Mmuseum.
Ask Uncle John Anything: Let it Shiner
Have you ever gotten a black eye, or a “shiner”? (If you have, sorry.) Did you or your mom put a cold, floppy steak on it to make the swelling go down? It’s one of those old folk remedies everybody knows about, and you see in movies and on TV shows, but does it really work? Or is it just a waste of a perfectly good—and quite expensive—ribeye?
Revenge of the Restaurant
The customer is always right—but not when they’re jerks. Here’s how some restaurant owners and employees got revenge on some nasty patrons with the power of the Internet.
Celebrity Beers
When you’re famous, you can do anything…like market your own signature suds.
- Wil Wheaton is an actor best known for his work as a teenager on Star Trek: The Next Generation and in Stand By Me, and as an adult, playing a jerkish version of himself on The Big Bang Theory. He was also one of the first prominent (and remains one of the most popular) bloggers. He recently teamed up with another Internet celebrity, Fark.com creator Drew Curtis, to create Stone Farking Wheaton w00tstout. Brewed by Stone Brewing Co., the name pays tribute to Fark, and Wheaton—it’s made with “wheat” after all.
Ask Uncle John Anything: Burn, Baby, Burn
How do food makers determine the calorie counts placed on food packages?
Calories provide energy to the body. You need to get a base of calories from food so your body can perform basic functions like pump blood and send electrical signals, and more calories to power any and all activities, like standing, walking, and talking.
FREE: Facts to Go History Makers
Have you checked out our eBook minis yet? Now is your chance to get one for free. From now until the end of June, we are giving away a FREE copy of Uncle John’s Facts to Go History Makers. Head over to your favorite eBook retailer and download your free copy!
Giveaway: June is Bathroom Reading Month
It’s our favorite time of the year! We are ready to kick off the month of June by celebrating the two things we love the most: Reading and the Bathroom. If you didn’t already know, June is Bathroom Reading Month! Every year, we celebrate by having a fantastic giveaway for our fans.
Fact-or-Fake Friday: Terrible Theme Restaurants
What follows are three stories about theme restaurants with very ill-advised themes. Two of them are real…and one we made up. Can you guess the fake? (Answer is at the end of the post.)
