
Eight million copies of ‘Goldeneye’ were sold to videogame fans. Pretty impressive, considering almost everyone on the team had never worked on a game project before.
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In one major city, there’s a massive sewage problem that is blocking infrastructure and creating a public health hazard. The solution? A coordinated, synchronized, city-wide toilet flush.
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How tall is Mount Everest? For nearly a hundred years, the official number of 29,002 feet was actually a fabrication.
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Your Facebook friends are real people. But one marketing campaign challenged fans to dump ten friends to get a tasty prize. Seriously.
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You may not have heard the name Leo Fender before, until you associate it with the Fender Stratocaster electric guitar. Most sources agree, however, that Leo couldn’t actually play.
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Every week, seven million viewers tune in to watch Rick Harrison on Pawn Stars. He’s a high school dropout.
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All of us want success. So why does investor, author, and entrepreneur James Altucher talk so openly about being mediocre?
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If you had invented an incredibly popular industrial chemical used by millions of people, you’d probably want it patented. So why haven’t the legal experts at WD-40 registered their invention with the federal government?
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Almost everyone has been frustrated by waiting for the bus. But some of the bus stops in Germany are completely fake. You can wait, but no bus will come.
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Amateur videographers everywhere know that any shot will look cheap and home made once you start to move the camera. That’s just the reality of inexpensive consumer equipment.
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