A nice arithmetical trick to show to children is the 1089 trick. It's not really a trick, just a surprising and cool arithmetical result that...

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(Pi by Mykl Roventine) The 14th March (3/14 in American date notation) has over recent years become Pi day because it famously starts with 3.14 New Scientist...

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...AND DID YOU PACK YOUR CASE YOURSELF, SIR? The ancient Egyptian mummy of famous King Rameses the Great, or Rameses II as he is more commonly...

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The famous Scottish bard, the Ayrshire ploughman, the people's poet - Robert Burns was called many things - but was not known by the contraction,...

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From second-century BC Greece, the Antikythera is a mechanical computer that, in terms of complexity, was 1,500 years ahead of it's time! It is a shock...

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Best available evidence reveals that Christmas trees were originally hung upside down from ceilings, rather than sitting the right way up in tubs. The Christmas tree...

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Researchers from John Hopkins university studying 64 pregnant women in Baltimore, found that 23 of the 28 who suffered heartburn gave birth to hirsute...

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This month is a blue moon month! Commonly speaking, we call a moon 'blue' when there are two full moons in the same calendar month. This...

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David McCandless (Information Is Beautiful .net) prepares interesting diagrams to present information and statistics in an accessible way. This one really brings home the cost...

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As widely reported this week in the Daily Mail,  abc , msn and other news media, a man in Belgium who was diagnosed with persistent...

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We all know Christmas is on 25th December, and Bonfire Night is remembered on the 5th November, and Hallowe'en is on 31st October, and....wait a...

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You would be forgiven for thinking that tigers, although endangered, would be most prevalent in their native lands of India, Africa and Tibet etc. The...

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In 2009 it was revealed that Dounreay nuclear power station in Caithness, Scotland is using a household cleaning product, Cillit Bang, to clean up radioactive...

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This is a grammatically correct sentence: Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo Amazingly, eight buffalo's in a row conforms to the rules of English grammar....

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Maybe we here at IF are getting on a bit, but we find the following account reported in The Telegraph to be nothing short of...

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This one gives us the absolute creeps! We've seen lots of wriggly, tickly and icky bugs in our time, but this thing has something about it...

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This Harris Hawk kills the camera that is videoing it (Youtube). My camera is broken beyond repair. If you enjoyed the video please consider donating any...

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from BBC website: One amphibian has evolved a bizarre and gruesome defence mechanism to protect itself against predators. When attacked, the Spanish ribbed newt pushes out its...

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The East Poplar borough council in London proposed to fix cages outside of their tenement windows, so that babies could benefit from fresh air and...

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The 'net abounds with claims of UFOs appearing in antiquity, evidenced by artworks from centuries ago that depict unidentified flying objects. Art historians claim these...

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Everyone has heard of the Seven Deadly Sins (or Seven Vices), but there are actually a corresponding set of Seven Virtues. These two lists are...

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It's from the town of Kilmarnock in Scotland of course.....eh, not much longer! The company, Diageo, which owns the Johnnie Walker brand has INCREDIBLY decided to...

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The architect must have been laughing up his sleeve as he drew this up! His name? John Mock! View Larger Map Naval Amphibious Base Coronado (NAB Coronado)...

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What is going on in Arizona???!!! This railway track just loops round on itself! View Larger Map Whereas a little to the right there is this Big Triangle...

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Some good coincidences reported in the Funny Emails website. Our favourite is number 8: 8. Photographic Coincidence A German mother who photographed her infant son in...

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A story with some currency today but really incredible. After all the fuss about the use of plastics and the clamp-down on the use of...

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In recent years there has arisen a trend for organisations to be so fearful of litigation that previously sociologically acceptable behaviour is amended to what...

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