Cool Obscure Facts

It’s Halloween. And when many people think Halloween, they think Salem, Massachusetts. Because it’s basically our Mardi Gras. Want to know practically everything there is to know about Salem? From witches to how a Salem boy became a Chinese god, to where the Murder of the Century occurred, and including…

Norman Reedus of The Walking Dead with a black cat Adam Howden (voice actor for Anders in Dragon Age 2 and many other voices, like the Ostagar Prisoner, in Dragon Age Origins) is known to have two black cats. One of whom is Goose: This is Adam Howden: There is also:…

No, that’s not code for anything. My girl kitty literally has been shaved. I love how she has tiger-striped skin as well as fur. We chose to do this for two reasons: 1) We don’t have central air conditioning and her thick Maine Coon fur coat makes her hot and…

I was going through some old photo albums and found this. The red arrow is pointing to the pilot’s head. Yes, I am in an airplane cockpit, on the jumpseat behind the captain, as our commercial passenger airplane flies over the Arctic. Because waaay back in the day, a time…

So, wanna do other things with your coffee besides drink it?  Me neither.  But here are some theoretical uses for your coffee, from Yahoo Shine: Reduce cellulite Pricey cellulite creams almost always have one major ingredient in common: caffeine, which supposedly enhances fat metabolism, reducing the appearance of these fatty pockets…

Look! It’s a piece of coffee history, one of my favorite kinds of history. And the honor of possessing the first coffee & chocolate license in Massachusetts – possibly in the colonies – goes to a woman:  Dorothy Jones in 1670. Yay for enterprising colonial women who know the value…