He’s Back: Gates World’s Richest Person Once Again

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Nokia unveils £13 phone that only needs to be charged once a month

Nokia has unveiled a simple £13 mobile phone that can last for 35 days on a single charge. It is aimed at emerging markets where electricity is rare, but could also be sold as a back-up phone.

The Nokia 105, which is set to go on sale within weeks, has a colour screen, built-in torch and an FM radio.

It’s now the cheapest phone in…

I Once Spent N14million On A Handbag – Nigerian Model, Barbara Juliano

Indeed, Barbara Juliano has seen it all in the modelling world. She walks with a gait that promptly tells you she was born to be a model.

She is about six feet tall, slim but fleshy in the right places and possesses that unusual look of models.

She rhapsodises: “I started modelling in Paris at…

Why Did People Once Think the Moon was Made Out of Cheese?

Ron asks: Why did people think the Moon was made out of green cheese?

In the early days of Google Moon, when you zoomed into the Moon, it eventually showed a Swiss cheese surface

Because it was formed in the Milky Way? -badop-ting-… *crickets*

In fact, nobody ever thought the Moon was made of…

Once a cheetah: Inside the wardrobes of fashion obsessives

This woman wouldn’t wear anything but animal print, another laps up all things Chanel, while a third can’t stop buying jeans…

BY Anna Berkeley | 26 August 2012

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Animal printSharmadean Reid, 27, founder of WAH Nails.

Sharmadean Reid says that she adores animal print so much she’d ‘even wear it to a funeral’. The owner of the WAH nail salon in east London, as well as a…

A Man Once Tried to Raise His Son as a Native Speaker in Klingon

Today I found out a man once tried to raise his son as a native speaker in Klingon.

The man is computational linguist Dr. d’Armond Speers.  Speers is actually not a huge Start Trek fan himself. Indeed many Klingon language enthusiasts aren’t, contrary to popular belief.  They tend to be language lovers fascinated by constructed languages, of which…

John Lennon Once Almost Beat a Man to Death

John Lennon Rehearsing "Give Peace a Chance"

Today I found out John Lennon once almost beat a man to death.

Was John Lennon gay? “Why are you bringing up such a ridiculous question? Who cares if he was gay? I thought this article was about John Lennon almost beating a guy to death.”…

There was Once a Baseball Player Traded for Bats

Today I found out there once was a baseball player traded for baseball bats.

“Bat Man”, as he was nicknamed after the trade, was actually named John C. Odom.  His life ended tragically just six months after the momentous trade.

After being signed by the San Francisco Giants in 2003 out of Tallahassee Community College, Odom was assigned to play…

Dr. Seuss Once Created a Nationally Famous Slogan “Quick Henry, the Flit!” for Standard Oil

Theodore Geisel (Dr. Seuss) once worked in advertising with his most famous ad campaign being one he created for Standard Oil who owned “Flit”, a popular insecticide of the day.  The campaign slogan was “Quick, Henry, the Flit!”, which was more or less the “Got Milk?” or “Where’s the Beef?” of its day.

A Group of Rioting French Tailors Once Destroyed the Factory of the Inventor of the Chain Stitch Sewing Machine

In 1830, a French tailor by the name of Barthelemy Thimonnier patented a sewing machine that used the chain stitch; the first such machine to replicate sewing by hand.  By 1841, he had a factory with over 80 machines and a contract with the French army for uniforms.  However, the factory was destroyed by a riotous group…