Cuckoos and Other Animated Clocks
Mental_floss blog editor Jason English told me his daughter wanted a cuckoo clock, but she wanted one with a dog instead of a cuckoo. I began to wonder why clocks use cuckoo birds to identify the hour....
View ArticleHypersonic Jet, ZEHST, Revealed At Paris Air Show
How would you like to fly from New York to London and an hour? Or how about London to Tokyo in two hours? Some day you might be able to if the ZEHST plane gets off the ground. A new hypersonic jet,...
View ArticleCrime by the Hour
Think that crimes happen in the dark of the night? Trulia Insights compiled crime statistics from 25 big cities in the United States and discovered that while crime doesn’t pay, it seems to clock in...
View ArticleMTV’s First Hour on the Air (I Mean: on Cable)
On August 1, 1981, MTV launched at 12:01am. Below you can see the first hour of MTV, in six ten-minute chunks. It’s historically interesting for the commercials, shows a surprisingly seat-of-the-pants...
View ArticleCoupled Married for 72 Years Dies While Holding Hands
Gordon and Norma Yeager, aged 94 and 90 respectively, were married for 72 years. They were inseparable and deeply in love with each other during those seven decades. They died an hour apart last week...
View ArticleHappy Ours
In the 1920s, Happy Hour happened on board a ship. It was the hour when boxing and wrestling mathces took place – an hour to unwind and cut loose from the day’s regular activities. Boy have we come a...
View ArticleThe Toddlers’ Truce: Why You Couldn’t Watch British TV at 6pm Until 1957
Turn on the TV at 6:00 this evening and you’ll find the local news, SportsCenter, or perhaps an old Seinfeld rerun. But until this day in 1957, British TVs at 6:00pm wouldn’t show a thing. Thanks to a...
View ArticleCountry Fried Bacon With Gravy On A Stick
If you’re ever entered into a contest to see who can eat the most calories in a 24 hour period, at least now you have a plan for breakfast. Of course, if you aren’t entered in said contest, you might...
View ArticlePhysics Students: Batman Would Die If He Tried to Glide
Image: University of Leicester It would be Knightfall for Batman to actually try to glide using his cape. Physics students at the University of Leicester have calculated that he wouldn’t be able to...
View ArticleThanks to Daylight Savings Time, Man Gets Ticketed for Two DUIs at the Same Time
At 1:08 AM last Sunday, a man in Urbana, Ohio was cited for drunk driving. Then, precisely one hour later at 1:08 AM, he was cited for the same offense: Exactly one hour later, while on patrol in the...
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