A single ticket purchased in Chicago suburb Des Plaines won the $1.337 billion Mega Millions jackpot in a July drawing. The winning ticket was purchased at a Speedway gas station, but this is all the public […]
In the summer of 1969, four days changed everything the world thought it knew about music. The Woodstock Music and Art Fair took place Aug. 15 – 18 in a field on Max Yasgur’s dairy […]
Basketball is one of the most followed, most-watched, and most popular sports in America and globally. Not just that, the NBA generates about $7-$10 billion in revenue every season. It is not surprising that the […]
Robin Williams was a comedy genius. Perhaps the pre-eminent comedy genius of our lifetimes, which made his death 8 years ago on Aug. 11, 2014, all the more tragic. Everything from the twinkle in his eyes […]
“When I grow up, I want to capture and sell rats from pubs!” Said no one in the 21st century ever (well, at least almost no one, we suppose). While the age of the machine […]
Every day, weird but true things happen and take the world by storm, like when a raccoon scaled a New York City skyscraper back in 2018. But these clicky, fascinating facts aren’t anything new. Throughout […]
Marilyn Monroe died 60 years ago this week — Aug. 5, 1962, to be exact. It’s hard to imagine it was so long ago given how influential the award winning actress remains. Earlier this year, […]
Ah, Hawaiian pizza—the most divisive and controversial pie of them all. Just one bite transports you to a tropical island, and you can almost hear the ukulele’s dulcet tones, smell coconut on the wind, and […]
Ali Spagnola, a Los Angeles-based artist, makes “outrageous” forms of music and art videos and posts them to TikTok. A recent project has the internet going off the rails. Spagnola took the iconic Chia Pet— […]
“We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.” ― Charles […]