It is the most dangerous city in the world, but fortunately it is also a training ground for the FBI. In the 1980s, the FBI wanted their agents to have a bit more realistic training, so they decided to build a small town in which to simulate all kinds of extreme situations, from robbing a […]
If, like everybody, you have ever eaten the famous Marie Biscuits, you will like to know their origin. At the end of the 19th century, James Peek and George H. Frean, master pastry owners of the Peek, Frean & Co. patisserie, decided to create a new type of biscuit that would move away from the […]
We all know what it is to do a hat-trick nowadays, we say this when a soccer player scores 3 goals in the same match (and takes the ball home signed by his teammates, yes). But, really, the origin of this term is not so simple, it is slightly different. For purists, or classics, as […]
Lemmings are friendly rodents (unless you saw them in your kitchen) that have carried an urban legend about their behavior for decades. It has always been believed that these animals commit mass suicide when their population is excessive compared to their resources, thus facilitating the survival of the young, but it is not true. And […]
