According to the “Monitoring the Future” report, for the first time ever, more college students smoke pot than cigarettes.
Geraldine Doyle, the real-life model for Rosie the Riveter, was actually a cellist who only worked in the factory for two weeks.
The Nazi leadership in 1941 chose Antiqua typefaces, which were first developed in the 15th and 16th centuries, to replace the Fraktur font.
The Mass Shootings Tracker, a crowdsourced tally of mass shootings maintained by r/GunsAreCool on Reddit, shows that we haven’t gone more than eight days without a mass shooting in the U.S. since the start of 2015.
Scotch maker Ardbeg recently proved that unmatured malt whisky aged on the International Space Station was very different than the same whisky aged on Earth. It had “hints of antiseptic smoke, rubber, and smoked fish, along with a curious, perfumed note, like violet or cassis, and powerful woody tones, leading to a meaty aroma.”
This article appears in September 18 • 2015.