One of Thailand's most famous monks body was put on display sometime in the 1970s and is still there today, virtually unchanged from the day he passed away, with the notable exception of a giant pair of Ray-Ban sunglasses that were added later.
Could you get in trouble legally if you murdered someone in space?
What is the likelihood a passenger with limited to no formal pilot training could actually land a commercial airliner safely if they were being talked through it?
On September 24, 1938 the three women took off from an airfield in Shchcyolkovo near Moscow, in a Tupolev ANT-37, which normally had a range of about 5,000 km or 3,100 miles. Their destination was Komsomolsk-on-Amur over 3600 miles away.
It turns out that humans during medieval times were just as keen as humans now to not stink, nor have dirt and grime on themselves.
The bizarre tale of the time two comic artists based in the UK and US respectively somehow both created Dennis the Menace at almost the same time, with the first editions of each published on the exact same day.
You *can* buy alcohol in Disneyland, it's just that the bar is hidden and costs an insane amount of money just for the right to enter.
In the hilarious rockumentary This is Spinal Tap released in 1984, Spinal Tap guitarist Nigel Tufnel proudly boasts of his Marshal amp, "This is a top to what we use on stage, but it's very, very special because, if you can see, the numbers all go to 11."
To begin with, for the most part, paying for something worth a pile of Ferraris is the same as paying for any other item.
While this might seem farfetched, it is noteworthy that the act of peeing in beer to make for a more robust flavor was actually historically a thing, with the practice called leinting.
Situated on the corner the John Street and 10th Avenue East in the bustling Capitol Hill neighbourhood, the seemingly ancient machine is well known for dispensing random, sometimes rare, cans of soda — a fact that's made all the more intriguing when you consider that nobody seems to know who stocks the machine or where it came from.
Something akin to passwords have seemingly been used for at least as long as humans have been recording history.
Is there any rule about what exactly your signature has to look like? Can you, for example, just sign all your legal documents with a big X like they do in cartoons?
Popular lore says that if you put pineapple in Jello, it won't set, and popular lore is true! But why?
The practice of using two columns with compact texts dates back to at least the fifteenth century.
While numerous shopping cart-like devices popped up here and there during the early 1930s, it was a particular 1937 folding-chair cart design by American businessman and inventor Sylvan Goldman that really took root and saw the shopping cart quickly becoming commonplace.
Back in 1981, in an effort to raise some quick funds, American Airlines introduced a $250,000 pass (about $641,000 today) that would allow customers to fly on its airlines for free for the rest of their lives. It still haunts them today.