by B.L. Unkel | Dec 10, 2022 | History
How much do you know about butter? Probably not as much as you think. Butter Contrary to popular belief by the young, butter doesn’t just magically appear on store shelves. It’s a dairy product produced by churning fresh—from real animals, usually cows—milk or...
by B.L. Unkel | Sep 10, 2022 | Everything Else
Going through my National Geographic magazines recently, I stumbled upon an article about armadillos. I thought I knew these “beer-drinking” critters. Turns out, I didn’t. Since my first “Did You Know?” two years ago was an armadillo story, I decided to revisit the...
by B.L. Unkel | Jul 9, 2022 | History
Teddy bears have been an integral part of childhood for more than one hundred years. It’s hard to imagine life without them. So how did it all begin? The President…and the Bear President Theodore Roosevelt was a big game hunter. In 1902, he traveled to...
by B.L. Unkel | Apr 2, 2022 | Everything Else
Welcome to April 2. Did you survive yesterday’s April Fool’s Day jokes? Or are you one of those people who love to play the jokes? Did you know no one knows exactly when and where April Food’s Day originated? April 1, 1700, though, is the day it began its rise in...
by B.L. Unkel | Mar 19, 2022 | Writing
Admit it. You’re curious as to what pencils, puddings, and poets . . . as well as Romans, rabbits, and zombies . . . have to do with England’s Lake District National Park, right? Turns out so many interesting things happened there, I can’t fit them all in one post. So...
