Fun Facts 4U

Historians tend to disagree about the precise start date of the so-called Colonial Era—when many of the major seafaring nations of Western Europe began to travel around the world …

Cast your mind back to high school math lessons, and you’ll no doubt be able to recall that prime numbers are numbers divisible only by themselves and 1—like 13, …

In 2007, a team of scientists and engineers based at the English research company Surrey NanoSystems made an extraordinary breakthrough. Using a new technique involving so-called “vertically aligned nanotubules” …

The battle between the decimal metric system and the more old-fashioned (and mathematically taxing) imperial system of weights and measures is a longstanding one. One of the many advantages …

Uprisings and rebellions have been sparked by all kinds of different grievances over the centuries—but among the most peculiar has to be a short-lived rebellion in the far southwest …

You will likely have heard people say that something has taken place “since time immemorial.” It’s such a familiar phrase that it’s almost become a cliche—used to describe anything …

From working out the movements of the stars to building geometrically and architecturally-perfect pyramids, the Ancient Egyptians were certainly proficient at a great many things. But as advanced as …

Before Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux became household names, Gordie Howe was the undisputed “King of Hockey.” And he still is to most hardcore hockey fans. Howe was truly …

Since the blockbuster film Close Encounters of the Third Kind came out in 1977, people around the world have been searching the skies for life of people outside our …

The Sicilian Mafia, or Cosa Nostra, is well-known around the world through its fictional portrayal in books, film, and television. The Godfather movie trilogy (yes, even the last one) …