Bathroom Readers' Institute's Blog, page 15
September 10, 2019
Here’s Your Underwear, Mr. Cruise
As if getting paid millions to play make believe wasn’t enough, Hollywood stars can make big demands for certain concessions on movie sets. Tom Cruise Tom Cruise has been a movie star for more than 40 years, and he still insists on doing his own stunts in action-packed movies like The Mummy and those Mission […]
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September 9, 2019
No Bones About It: The Human Skeleton is Fascinating!
No matter who you are, you’ve got something that everybody else has got, too: a skeleton! Underneath your skin sits a complex system of bones to keep you upright and moving. Here are some fascinating facts you and your kids can enjoy about the human skeletal system. How many bones? It’s common knowledge that there […]
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September 7, 2019
New Coke Isn’t It
What was the most popular activity of the summer of 1985? Hating on New Coke, Coca-Cola’s ill-fated attempt to reformulate its popular product. First Diet Drinks The first major diet drink on the market was Diet Pepsi, launched in 1964. Coca-Cola offered Tab, but as its cans bore a warning about how the sugar substitute […]
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September 6, 2019
Forgotten Fad Restaurants
Fast food burger places, barbecue joints, and Chinese restaurants remain stalwarts on the American food scene, outlasting a lot of other types of eateries that have come…and mostly gone. Fondue While the notion of dipping pieces of bread, meat, and vegetables in hot oil or cheese and calling it a (very filling) meal dates back […]
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September 5, 2019
Making Music, Making Drinks
There’s a long association between beverages and songs — there are a lot of old country tunes about drinkin’, and Jimmy Buffett’s entire career is based on liking margaritas. Here are some times when musicians told the people what to drink…and they obliged. “The Piña Colada Song” popularized the piña colada The piña colada, a […]
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September 4, 2019
History’s Weirdest Deaths: A “Model” Way to Go
Tragically, countless individuals have died in airplane crashes or accidents. A rarer way to move over to the afterlife: dying in a model airplane accident. But it happens. Killed by His Own Plane Model plane enthusiast Roger Wallace was flying his five-foot-wingspan toy at the Pima County Fairgrounds in Tucson, Arizona, in May 2002, when […]
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September 3, 2019
Strange Hollywood: ‘Star Trek’ Edition
If you’re a Trekker, or a fan of the 1966-69 TV show Star Trek and its many spinoffs, right now is a great time to be alive, with multiple Trek shows in production or on the way. Here’s a look at some of the weirder parts of the Trek universe. The spiritual origins of the […]
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August 29, 2019
Not-So-Famous Firsts in Robot History
In his 1920 play Rossum’s Universal Robots, Czech writer Karel Capek coined the word robot, jumping off of the Czech word robota, which means “forced labor.” Here are some interesting robot firsts. First movie robot: A female robot named Maria is a main character in the 1927 silent science-fiction film Metropolis. That marks the first […]
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August 22, 2019
The History of Teeth Coloring, All Laid Out in Black and White
Here’s a brief history of how people sought to change the shade of their chompers — and “white” wasn’t always the desired effect. GOAT MILK, SAGE, AND SUNFLOWERS Because the general wear-and-tear on teeth for the common man before the age of modern dentistry (or even toothbrushes and toothpaste), white teeth in Ancient Rome were […]
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August 21, 2019
The Not-So-Triumphant Debuts of Several Famous Authors
Everybody has to start somewhere, even some of the greatest writers of all time. He’s a Survival survivor Dan Brown is another rare writer to launch a craze: He wrote The Da Vinci Code and its many sequels about Robert Langdon, an art history professor who solves historical and conspiratorial mysteries. In the late ‘80s, […]
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