A wine cork costs about 10 cents if it is made from pressed cork scraps, and about 45 cents if it is one of the extra-long corks used to close the bottles at famous wine estates in Bordeaux, Burgundy, Italy, and California.

The exuberant film dance team of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers was on the Box Office Top Ten List three times. Some critics feel that their Top Hat and Swing Time are the two best film musicals Hollywood ever produced. ...Read More

The story of Don Juan has been told over 35 times in the movies. The 1926 version, starring John Barrymore holds a place in movie history, as Don Juan (Barrymore) plants 191 kisses on various females during the course of ...Read More

What do bats' wings, elephants' ears, flamingos' legs, rabbits' ears, goats' horns, and human skin all have in common? They radiate heat to providing cooling for the animal.

The rickshaw was invented by the Reverend Jonathan Scobie, an American Baptist minister living in Yokohama, Japan. Rev. Scobie built the first model in 1869 in order to transport his invalid wife. Today it remains a common...Read More

Carte blanche, which means unconditional authority or power, was coined during the mid 1600s and literally means in French “blank document.”