General Tso’s Chicken is named after Chinese statesman and military leader Zuo Zongtang (a.k.a General Tso, Tso Tsung-t’ang, and Marquis Kejing), however, he personally had nothing to do with the…
In 1928, Walter Diemer was working as an accountant for the Fleer Chewing Gum company but also dabbled around in the Fleer factory in his spare time. One day while at…
The dill in dill pickle refers to the herb that is used to flavor the pickle. A pickled cucumber (commonly known as just a pickle) is a cucumber that has…
There are two main reasons we can get bags under our eyes when we are tired: dehydration and fluid accumulation. First, when humans are tired, our skin gets dull and…
The first piece of the puzzle to understanding why sloths are so slow is their low-calorie folivorous (mostly leaves) diet. Many other folivorous animals move at a normal pace, so…
This one is tough to explain in a few paragraphs, but here it goes. To understand why the sky is blue, we first need to understand how sunlight interacts with…
