Wednesday, August 8 Olympic Fun Fact: The 1908 Olympic Games were originally supposed to be hosted in Rome, but were moved [...]

Tuesday, August 7 Olympic Fun Fact: The ancient Olympic Games were held every four years from 776 BC through 326 [...]

Monday, August 6 Olympic Fun Fact: NBC’s coverage of the 2012 London Olympics has drawn a record viewership thus far, [...]

Saturday, August 4 Olympic Fun Fact: If the 302 gold medals that were made for the 2012 Olympics were made [...]

Friday, August 3 Olympic Fun Fact: The last year that Olympic gold medals were made out of solid gold was [...]

Thursday, August 2 Olympic Fun Fact: My grandfather (GrandadBint) received a gold medal at the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw [...]

Wednesday, August 1 Olympic Fun Fact: The oldest known Olympic medalist was Oscar Swahn of Sweden, who won his final [...]

Tuesday, July 31 Olympic Fun Fact: While most Americans probably remember that Michael Phelps brought home a record number of eight [...]

Monday, July 30 Olympic Fun Fact: From 1912 – 1952, there was a fine arts component to the Olympic games. [...]

Friday, July 27 Opening ceremonies for the 2012 Olympic Games take place tonight. XXX Summer Olympics (NBC 8pm) London, the [...]

Thursday, July 26 On this date in 1953, approximately 100 Arizona police officers and National Guard soldiers raided a polygamous community [...]

Wednesday, July 25   Mozart completed his Symphony #40 in G minor on this date in 1788.  Big Brother (CBS 8pm) Contestants compete in [...]

Tuesday, July 24 Hell’s Kitchen (Fox 8pm) Ramsay puts the chefs’ communication skills to the test; the contestants face [...]

Monday, July 23 How I Met Your Mother character Robin Sherbatzky (aka Robin Sparkles) would be celebrating her 32nd birthday today, [...]

Saturday, July 21 Not a whole lot on tonight, but I suppose it really doesn’t matter because the Weekly World News [...]

Friday, July 20 It’s National Lollipop Day! I’ve heard that Sees Candy stores are giving away free lollipops today in [...]

Thursday, July 19 The Great Fire of Rome began on this date in the year 64 A.D. While the actual [...]

Wednesday, July 18 Kristen Bell, the most adorable actress on the face of the planet, turns 32 today. Here’s hoping her [...]

Tuesday, July 17 Disneyland opened on this date in 1955. I can’t snark on that, I freaking love Disneyland. Hell’s [...]

Monday, July 16 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail, better known as Il Seraglio, debuted on this date [...]

Friday, July 13 When I pulled up the zap2it.com TV listings page, just like I always do when writing this column, [...]

Thursday, July 11 July 12, 1843, is generally accepted by historians as the date on which Joseph Smith received his [...]

Wednesday, July 11 Legendary baseball player Babe Ruth began his career in Major League Baseball as a starting pitcher for [...]

Tuesday, July 10 On this date in 1553, Lady Jane Grey assumed rule as the Queen of England. Although named [...]

Monday, July 9 During the Boxer Rebellion, the Governor of Shangxi Province ordered the execution of 45 Christian missionaries and [...]

Saturday, July 7 On this date in 1456, Joan of Arc was acquitted in a posthumous retrial. Way to go, [...]

Friday, July 6 On this date in 1885, Louis Pasteur gave the first successful rabies vaccine to Joseph Meister, a [...]

Thursday, July 5 On this date in 1996, Dolly the sheep, the first mammal to be successfully cloned, was born. She [...]

Tuesday, July 3 The oldest newspaper still in print in Norway was first published on this date in 1767. Originally [...]

Monday, July 2 WalMart turns fifty today, as the very first WalMart store opened on this date in 1962. Freaking WalMart. The [...]

Saturday, June 30 On this date in 1882, the remarkably odd and delusional Charles Guiteau was hanged for the assassination of [...]

Friday, June 29 On this date in 1974, Mikhail Baryshnikov defected from the USSR to Canada. Had Canada known [...]

It’s all fun and games until somebody loses an ear.

Wednesday, June 27 On this date in 1358 the Republic of Dubrovnik was official declared no longer subject to the [...]

Tuesday, June 26 The Cyclone at Coney Island, the world’s most famous wooden rollercoaster, opened on this date in 1927. [...]

Monday, June 25 Our favorite foul-mouthed, cranky-pants, world-traveling, hyper-critical chef, writer, and TV personality, Anthony Bourdain turns fifty-six today. The Bachelorette (ABC [...]

Saturday, June 23 On this date in 1532, Henry VIII and the French king François I signed a secret treaty [...]

Friday, June 22 This was adopted as the official flag of Sweden in 1906. This fact is about 46 times more [...]

Thursday, June 21 On June 21, 1948, Columbia Records unveiled the first LP record, completely changing the music industry. Before [...]

Wednesday, June 20 On this date in 1893, Lizzie Borden was acquitted of the brutal hatchet murders of her father [...]