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...

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

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...

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

  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...

  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...

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