Franklin D. Roosevelt founded an organization to find a cure for polio
Franklin D. Roosevelt founded an organization to find a cure for polio, and believed that if everyone gave only a dime, polio would be eradicated. Because of this motto, after his death in 1945, FDR’s face was put on the dime, and his organization was renamed “The March of Dimes.” The March of Dimes Foundation […]
Nicholas Winton saver of more than 600 children in Nazi camps
Alcohol is ranked higher than almost all drugs in terms of harm it causes
Alcohol is ranked higher than almost all drugs in terms of harm it causes. Ethanol is thought to cause harm partly as a result of direct damage to DNA caused by its metabolites. Most significant of the possible long-term effects of ethanol. In addition, in pregnant women it may cause fetal alcohol syndrome. Ethanol’s toxicity […]
Daniel Norris lives off just $800 a month despite a million dollar salary
Daniel Norris family has owned a bicycle shop in Johnson City, Tennessee, for more than 80 years. In the offseason, Norris lives by choice in a 1978 Volkswagen Westfalia van, nicknamed “Shaggy”. His unconventional lifestyle can be described as nonconformist and minimalist, and has raised eyebrows in MLB. Prior to the 2015 season, Tony LaCava, […]
Monty Python’s Life of Brian was banned in Norway
Monty Python’s Life of Brian, also known as Life of Brian, is a 1979 British religious satire comedy film starring and written by the comedy group Monty Python (Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin). It was also directed by Jones. The film tells the story of Brian Cohen […]
CIA project to lift a lost Soviet submarine loaded with nuclear missiles
A $350m drillship built in the early ’70s by US billionaire, Howard Hughes, to collect ‘mineral riches’ from the ocean floor was actually a cover for the CIA to be used to lift a lost Soviet submarine, loaded with nuclear missiles, up from the floor of the Pacific Ocean, 3 miles deep “Arizona” (erroneously called “Azorian” […]
Harvard conducted the longest study of professional success in life
how to success in life? By loading kids with high expectations and micromanaging their lives at every turn, parents aren’t actually helping. At least, that’s how Julie Lythcott-Haims sees it. With passion and wry humor, the former Dean of Freshmen at Stanford makes the case for parents to stop defining their children’s success via grades […]