You know the drill, I know the drill, let’s do this. This one might not be the most useful bit of trivia I’ve heard but it’s mind-boggling. in North America, cinema popcorn costs more than fillet mignon in terms of cost per gram. That’s a sirloin steak, to you or I. The best type of […]

A few years ago I stumbled upon podcasts. Following a brief trial period I was a convert and now podcasts form a part of my daily routine. Recently I revamped my collection of podcasts so I thought it’d make for a decent topic to write about. For the uninitiated, a podcast is a series of […]

New month. Three new things. Let’s do it: Stress can be easily transmitted from person to person. In a test whereby a group of people were intentionally made to feel stressed, a group of spectators also began to produce stress hormones. The likelihood of this happening (and the strength of the response) was increased by […]

Three things I learnt this month that I thought were worth sharing. Go: The ampersand (this symbol – &) is actually based upon combining the letters ‘e’ and ‘t’. This is because ‘et’ was (is?) Latin for ‘and’. It’s a lot more pronounced in certain fonts than others but also shows much more clearly in […]

Truth be told, I used to pride myself on being an optimistic football fan. I believed in giving signings time to bed in, managers time to develop a squad in their image and the notion of blindly supporting your team. However, this began to change a couple of years ago when I first started to […]

A month later and I can confirm that Ancient Rome was a fascinating place. I already knew that though, so here are three things I didn’t know on March 1st 2014: There’s evidence to suggest that Swahili and Zulu have had more influence on the English language than Cornish and Welsh. Sure, everyone knows that […]

Towards the end of February I began reading a fascinating book on Ancient Rome, Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire. I’m 40% of the way through but I’ve learnt something pretty much every time I’ve picked it up, which gave me a ton of material for this month’s TIL. However, I decided […]

What an odd, but eventually brilliant, evening this turned out to be. From the euphoria of a fantastic start to the nerves & confusion of the middle right back to the ecstasy of victory, we really went through the full range of emotions tonight. To add to all of that, I must say I don’t […]

If you don’t like or haven’t played Football Manager you should probably skip the opening bit. Unsure of how I’d been driven into a rage when I didn’t even care about my own 5-a-side games, I started again. Double click there… wait a little bit… another click there… wait for the inevitable 30-second freeze… and… […]

I’m clearly far too lazy to do this on a weekly basis. Maybe monthly will work. Possibly. Probably not. Thanks to the huge number of 2013 recaps I learnt a fair amount this month but I thought I’d pick out some stuff that was really interesting to me. Researchers from Newcastle University have confirmed that […]