Today I learned that Fillmore, the hippie van from Pixar’s Cars, was originally named “Waldmire” after artist Bob Waldmire whose work often focused on Route 66. Waldmire, a vegetarian, refused to let
TIL the genesis of the Chappelle Show sketch with Wayne Brady came from his anger at Dave Chappelle for a Paul Mooney joke about him. Brady feels the famous sketch showed his larger range and opened u
TIL Watson Brake in Louisiana was built before Stonehenge, and 1000 years before the Egyptian pyramids, but is inaccessible to the public because one family member refuses to sell the land to the Stat
TIL ~1 in 1,000 females have Trisomy X (extra X chromosome). It's rarely diagnosed; fewer than 10% know they have it. They can have learning disabilities, wide-spaced eyes, incurved little fingers, ea
TIL Dipak Pokhrel, a co-pilot for Yeti Airlines, died in a aviation accident in 2006. 17 years later, his soon-to-be-pilot widowed wife Anju Khatiwada, met the same fate, on the same airline, in 2023.
While walking around Seelbach, I came across this place that looks like something straight out of a fairy tale — a small village of treehouses surrounded by nature
