History

We eat popcorn at the movies because, in the 1930s and 1940s, American theaters found it was the most profitable

The ridges on the edge of a coin were invented to stop people stealing the coin a sliver at a

Golfers yell “fore” to warn anyone who might be hit by the ball. The word is short for “before”, in

The 2 on a No. 2 pencil is a hardness grade. American pencils are graded by number, and the higher

The tall white chef’s hat is called a toque, and its height has little to do with keeping hair out

Drive through farm country in the American Midwest, Ontario or New England and the barns are red often enough that

In November 1932, three soldiers crouched in a wheat field in Western Australia behind a pair of machine guns, waiting