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January 1 – Happy New Pint!
Today’s factismal: The human body creates two million red blood cells every second. On a typical day, some 41,000 units of blood will be needed in the US alone. But no day is average; there are good...
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February 2 – Happy Woodchuck Day
Today’s Factismal: The woodchuck, or groundhog as it is often known, is the largest member of the squirrel family in North America. If you are a fan of holidays, or just of silly strange movies, then...
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April 22 – Down To Earth
Today’s Factismal: The 45th annual Earth Day celebration is being held today. The 1960s and 1970s were a difficult time for the environment. The Cuyahoga river had caught fire in 1969 (and not for the...
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May 1 – Zombee Jamboree
Today’s Factismal: May is National Zombie Awareness Month.. If you think that zombies are just found in the movies, then think again. There are real live zombies out there, and they may be in your...
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August 1 – Pokey Dokey
Today’s factismal: August is National Immunization Awareness Month. If you want to be thankful for modern medicine, all you have to do is look at what used to kill us. In 1900, influenza was the...
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September 6 – Sixteen Tons
This is an image of company scrip. These little metal coins were given to the workers of a company and could only be spent in a company store to buy company-approved goods. The paper form of this was...
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October 1 – Bat Month
Today’s factismal: Chirp for National Bat Appreciation Month ! People love October. How do I know? That’s easy – there are over 121 different groups that have decided that October is “their month”....
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October 31 – Time To Prey
Math is often called the language of science. And the beautiful thing about that language is that it says the same thing whether you are working in chemistry or biology. Peter and Daniel will learn...
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November 13 – Frightfully Fun
Today’s Factismal: Fear of Friday the 13th is known as paraskevidekatriaphobia or friggatriskaidekaphobia . One of the more interesting things about humans is that if something exists, there’s someone...
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December 11 – Merry Techmas!
Today’s factismal: X-mas was used as an abbreviation for Christmas around 1100 AD. Back in 1021, there wasn’t much to write on (to be fair, there weren’t many people who could write on what there was...
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December 14 – On Donder
Today’s factismal: The word “reindeer” means “deer deer”. It is beginning to look a lot like Xmas and one of the most important parts of that look is the number of reindeer that are sprouting up. You...
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December 21 – Still Standing Still
Today’s factismal: Today marks “Midwinter Day” in many countries. Today is one of the more interesting days in the year. It is the day in which the Sun stops its apparent southward movement through the...
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December 22 – A Goose For Christmas
Today’s factismal: Scrooge bought a turkey for the Cratchit because it was more expensive than a goose. If you’ve ever read Dicken’s classic “A Christmas Carol” (or seen any of the many, many, many,...
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December 24 – The Best Gift Of All
Today’s factismal: The Royal Institute has held Christmas Lectures every year since 1825, making it the longest running lecture series in the world. Back in 1825, Michael Faraday noticed a problem:...
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December 25 – Merry Mishmash
Today’s factismal: Christ wasn’t born on Christmas. (Nor was Isaac Newton, for that matter.) How would you like to be the least liked person at your church’s annual Christmas pageant this morning? All...
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January 5 – Happy New Bird!
Today’s factismal: National Bird Day was first celebrated in 1894. Before we get into the meat of today’s post, please let me apologize for my absence. A slippery patch of ice led to a sprained arm...
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January 25 – No, It Isn’t
Today’s factismal: Today is not National Opposite Day. If you lived about 2600 years ago in Greece, you would have had very little to do other than fight off invaders, enslave the survivors, and make...
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January 28 –“Not Because They Are Easy”
Today’s factismal: It is National Astronaut Remembrance Day. This morning, at 11:39 EST, work stopped at NASA. Every NASA center, no matter where it was in the world, went silent. Every NASA worker, no...
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February 2 – Lord Love A Duck
Today’s factismal: It is World Wetland Day – have you hugged a duck? Today marks the 45th anniversary of the Ramsar Convention. Held in Iran in 1971 this convention was all about protecting the...
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February 29 – Leap Before You Look
Today’s factismal: A year is 365 days, 5 hours 49 minutes, and 12 seconds long. Today is Leap Day, a special day added almost every four years in order to “fix” our calendar. But why should the...
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