AFF | Awesome Fun Facts

The odds of winning the Mega Millions are a long shot at 1 in 176 million. From landing dream jobs to unfortunate demises, The Daily Beast...

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

It turns out, soft drinks aren’t just flavored carbonated beverages.  “Soft Drink” refers to nearly all beverages that do not contain...

The origins of this term go all the way back to the Biblical event where Eve gave Adam a forbidden fruit, which is commonly misrepres...

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

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

The  Swastika in Buddhism represents universal harmony, dharma, the balance of opposites, and, originally, eternity and good luck or ...

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

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

  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...