May 2016 - Page 7 of 8 - Curious Links

What is Cinco de Mayo?

Cinco de Mayo—or the fifth of May—commemorates the Mexican army’s 1862 victory over France at the Battle of Puebla during

May 4, 2016May 3, 2016 0 Comments food, military

Youtube user Steve1989 is part of a growing online community of people around the world who collect, swap, and taste-test military

If Alfred Hitchcock used hummingbirds in his movie The Birds, it may have looked something like this.

May 4, 2016May 3, 2016 0 Comments hollywood, maker

Meet Tom Woodruff Jr. and Alec Gillis—they’ve been making movie monsters for Hollywood movies for the last 35 years at

May 4, 2016, is the annual Star Wars Day because of the easily made pun on the catch phrase “May

A group of United States Marines took to a Florida beach on April 23 for a surf sesh half a

May 3, 2016May 2, 2016 0 Comments phone, technology

On April 3, 1973, Motorola employee Martin Cooper made a very consequential phone call. Dialing up AT&T’s Joel Engel from

May 3, 2016May 2, 2016 0 Comments medical, surgery

Here’s something most people don’t know about surgery—at a certain point in an operation, it can smell. Really bad. Head

The nickel wasn’t always worth five cents. In 1865, the U.S. nickel was a three-cent coin. Before that, “nickel cents”

May 2, 2016April 29, 2016 0 Comments animals, india

After a tsunami struck near Chennai, India, a camera repairman named Sekar noticed a pair of displaced green parakeets perched

Drone captured footage of Venezuela’s Santo Angel waterfall – the highest uninterrupted waterfall in the world – cascading down over

America’s only space station – Skylab – was cobbled together using surplus Apollo program parts and launched into orbit on