The Facts on The Wilhelm Scream
Have you ever watched a movie and recognized the scream of one of the characters? Turns out that’s because the scream appears in over 200 movies, games, and tv and is known as the Wilhelm scream… what’s up with that?
Why Is Spam Called SPAM?
People get spam emails, messages, calls, spam everything. But why is it called spam? Does it have something to do with the food? Technically… kind of
Why Are They Called White Elephant Gifts?
With the holidays coming up, you might be wondering where the term “white elephant gift” came from. There’s a common origin involving a king who gave out white elephants as gifts but it turns out, it might not be true at all.
Why Are They Called Soap Operas?
Why are these melodramatic shows called Soap operas? Turns out the origin of the term ‘Soap opera’ has more to do with advertisements and singing cowboys than I ever expected.
The Origins of 5 Christmas Traditions
Every holiday has its own set of traditions yet we sometimes don’t know why or how we started doing them. So let’s look at the origin of 5 Christmas traditions to find out why.
The Origin of Subliminal Messages
In 1957 a man ran a 6-week long experiment to see if he could control us. The results caused outrage in congress and a little bit of mass hysteria. What was the experiment? Did it work? What happened next?