Travel & Places

Travel & Places How Much Waste Does the Cruise Line Industry Dump? September 18, 2021

Travel & Places What Happened to Finnair's Flight 666? September 15, 2021

Travel & Places How Many People Live in Providence? September 8, 2021

Travel & Places Did We Always Have to Pay For Checked-In Luggage? September 2, 2021

Travel & Places How is French and Italian Alike? August 1, 2021

Travel & Places What Was the Initial Rating of the 2002 Scooby-Doo Movie? July 22, 2021

Travel & Places Why Did Charles Dickens Have to Work When He Was a Minor? June 10, 2021

Travel & Places Boring, Bland, and Dull: Unexciting or Some Very Unique Town Names? May 2, 2021

Travel & Places How Hard Is It to Get a License for a Black Cab in London? May 2, 2021

Travel & Places Are There Any Private Beaches in Mexico? April 30, 2021

Travel & Places There are 2 billion parking spots in the U.S. for about 200 million cars. The area of parking per car in the United States is thus larger than the area of housing per human. April 18, 2021

Travel & Places The sauna is such a deeply igrained part of the Finnish culture, that finns will even build them in war. Custom dictates no titles or hierarchies are allowed in the sauna, including military ranks in saunas built and used by soldiers. April 12, 2021

Travel & Places In Cuba, picking up hitchhikers is mandatory for government vehicles, if passenger space is available. March 30, 2021

Travel & Places Witches are banned from flying above 150 meters in the landlocked African nation of Eswatini. Any witch caught flying their broomstick above the limit faces arrest and a hefty R500,000 fine according to the country's civil aviation authority. There's no penalty for flying below 150 meters. February 2, 2021

Travel & Places People who quit smoking before the age of 40 may live as long as people who never smoked at all. Researchers found a smoker loses roughly 10 years of life to the habit but regained most of that time if they quit before 40. The benefit is increased the sooner before 40 you quit. January 21, 2021

Travel & Places In Iceland people light candles for the huldufólk, hidden elves, during New Year's Eve to help the huldufólk find a new home for the year. December 31, 2020

Travel & Places Dubai creates artificial rain regularly using cloud seeding, as natural rain is very rare. People are informed about the rains a day in advance. December 28, 2020

Travel & Places Kyrgyzstan is more distant from the ocean than any other nation. At a minimum of 1620 miles from any ocean, it is the most land-locked state in the world December 8, 2020

Travel & Places For a while in the 2010s, you could rent the country of Liechtenstein on Airbnb for $70,000 a night. This included hanging out with the monarch, temporary currency, the ability to rename streets and a key to country. December 6, 2020

Travel & Places Every year, a regatta is held in Alice Springs. Due to the lack of water in Central Australia, contestants have to carry bottomless "boats" trough a dried-out river. When the river did carry water in 1993, the regatta became "the only regatta ever cancelled because of wet weather". November 27, 2020