Mosquitoes do not bite. They stab. A mosquito has no jaws; when attacking a victim, it pierces it with its long proboscis and sucks the blood up through a nasal tube.

According to acupuncturists, there is a point on the head that you can press to control your appetite. It is located in the hollow just in front of the flap of the ear.

Scientists at Oxford University's Imperial Cancer Research Fund found that people who eat fresh fruit daily had 24 percent fewer heart attacks and 32 percent fewer strokes.

Absinthe is often referred to as la Fee Verte ("The Green Fairy") because of its coloring - typically pale or emerald green, but sometimes clear. Due to its high proof and concentration of oils, absintheurs (absinthe drinkers) typically add three to five parts ice-cold water to a dose of absinthe, which causes the drink to turn cloudy (called "...Read more

The mistral wind of southern France once blew a string of locomotive cars from Arles to Port-St.-Louis 25 miles away before the cars could be stopped.

The NBC daytime drama, The Doctors, was the first soap opera to win an Emmy series award in 1972. Although the Emmy Awards were launched in 1948 to honor accomplishments in the television industry, the genre of daytime drama was largely ignored. It was finally recognized with its own category 24

One Norwegian Christmas custom begins in late autumn at harvest time. The finest wheat is gathered and saved until Christmas. This wheat is then attached to poles made from tree branches, making perches for the birds. A large circle of snow is cleared away beneath each perch. According to the Norwegians, this provides a place for the birds to ...Read more

The San Blas Indian women of Panama consider giant noses a mark of great beauty. They paint black lines down the center of their noses to make them appear longer.

Forensic scientists can determine a person's sex, age, and race by examining a single strand of hair.

Bazooka Joe is a comic strip character, featured on small comics included inside individually wrapped pieces of Bazooka bubble gum. He wears an eyepatch, lending him a distinctive appearance. He is one of the more recognizable American advertising characters of the 20th century, and one of the few identifiable ones associated with a candy. No ...Read more

Second only to Christmas, Valentine's Day brings out the card-giver in people, with an average of 1.01 billion cards purchased every year.

A tip or gratuity given by a gambler to a dealer or other employee at a casino is called a “toke.”

On January 31, 1968, North Vietnam attacked U.S. and South Vietnamese troops and reached the American Embassy in Saigon. It was a surprise to U.S. troops because January 31 was the Vietnamese New Year's Day, traditionally a day of celebration — not war. This attack was called the "Tet Offensive

Summer oysters are less tasty because the oysters may be spawning. Spawning oysters are usually less sweet and sometimes have a milky appearance that makes them less appetizing.

The only items required to play the game are the rulebooks, a character sheet for each player, and a number of polyhedral dice (a set of standard D&D dice includes: d4, d6, d8, d12, d20, and two d10s for percentile: ones and tens), although there are many optional items which can be used to supplement or enhance the gaming experience, such as ...Read more

The term “hung jury,” a jury that cannot agree on a verdict, was coined in the 1840s.

A dog named "Simone" was featured in the first season of The Partridge Family, though she was phased out of production early in the second season. Like "Tiger" on The Brady Bunch, the dog simply disappeared without an explanation.

According to Margaret Jones, author of a Patsy Cline biography, there are a dozen places in Virginia that could claim to be the hometown of the nomadic Cline. Her family moved 19 times before she was 15.

Isaac Newton dropped out of school when he was a teenager, at his mother's request. She hoped he would become a successful farmer.

American Indians were cultivating strawberries in 1643. They crushed the strawberries into a mortar, mixing them with meal to make a strawberry bread.