Ushi no toki mairi, meaning "Shrine visit at the hour of the ox" is a Japanese method of laying a curse to someone, involving nailing a straw effigy to a tree for seven nights straight!
Bite the Bullet: This phrase is believed to originate from the days before modern anesthesia when soldiers were given bullets to bite on during surgery to cope with extreme pain. This practice allowed them to focus on something else during painful proced
Have you ever wondered why rats are always being used in laboratory experiments? Yes, rats are not only highly intelligent animals, but they also have great memories too. Rats are able to map out a room and will remember all of the routes to get around f
You've probably heard that feminists burned their bras in the 1970s, but that's not true. This myth arose when feminists protested at the Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City in 1968, and they symbolically threw objects that they felt were confining i
If you were to lay out all the blood vessels in the human body end to end, they would stretch over 60,000 miles. That's enough to circle the Earth more than twice!
