A daycare teacher in St. Charles, Illinois, was arrested this month after she allegedly gave the children candy-flavored laxatives. The plan, apparently, was to cause them to get diarrhea, which meant they would have to be sent home. The teacher’s
In the early 1800s, Parisian doctor François Broussais popularized the use of leeches for bloodletting. Vampires, apparently, were going out of fashion, and besides, leeches can eat 10 times their weight in blood, which seems more efficient than vampires anyway.
The first labor union in the United States was the the Federal Society of Journeymen Cordwainers, founded in 1794. What is a cordwainer? I had to look that up too, so I’ll save you the trouble.
It’s a shoemaker
Me in Minnesota in 2024, after running around a lake with a name I can’t pronounce
Here are a few fun facts about Minnesota:
Alabama jewelry store owner Slater Jones owns a two-carat diamond. That might not seem surprising, but stay with me here. Jones keeps the diamond in his eye. Literally, in his eye.
You see, Jones lost his right eye to
Foie gras ice cream anyone?
We all know that ice cream comes in many flavors. But some are particularly unusual. For example, a French company sells ice cream with flavors like foie gras, caviar, mustard, and truffle. Presumably, those come
I took last week off work to visit Asheville. The first morning, we woke up at 5 am for a sunrise hike at Craggy Pinnacle, along the Blue Ridge Parkway. This was our view at the top.
Fortunately, the fog
If you’re a frequent online shopper and reading this post from Japan, you’re probably familiar with the online Japanese flea market app Mercari. What I mean is, I never heard of it either.
Mercari, though, made big news last month
For three hours each night, a policeman appears out of thin air in a busy park in Seoul, South Korea. His presence has, according to police data, reduced crime in the park by 22%. The policeman, however, has never arrested
(AI mapmaking is fun!)
Harshvardhan Jain served ably as the Indian ambassador to Westarctica. And Seborga. And Ladonia. He drove fancy cars with diplomatic plates, and he worked out of an embassy in Ghaziabad, India.
Now I know what you’re
