AFF | Awesome Fun Facts

Archytas, who coincidentally is known as the “father of mechanical engineering”, constructed his bird out of wood and used steam to p...

For those not familiar with this term (i.e. many people outside of the United States), jaywalking is when, “A pedestrian… crosses a s...

  Ponies and horses are both equines. In general, a horse is an equine that stands about 14.2 hands high or more  and a pony is an equ...

The smell comes from the way certain chemical compounds in asparagus break down inside people’s bodies.  This is why cooking asparagu...

Where the ampersand symbol and name came from. The symbol for “&” comes from combination of letters in the Latin for “and”, “et...

  Lupus, Latin for “wolf”, is a chronic (long term) autoimmune disease. Meaning the body’s immune system mistakenly attacks healthy ti...

Garden gnomes are those statues you see of pint sized chubby human-like creatures usually wearing red hats and blue pants. You can fi...

  On November 30, 2012, the Korean Central News Agency, North Korea’s government “news” agency, reported that scientists had “reconfir...

  There are a few things going on to cause this bad smell, but principally the root cause is various sulfuric compounds from the garli...

Those millions of bacteria have to live somewhere. Sweat and Odor There are two universally-accepted types of sweat glands. Ecc...