Culture & History

A Columbian New Year's Eve tradition is to run around with empty suitcases, to fill the coming year with travel and adventure.

Did you know that there's a drinking fountain in Caldari di Ortona in Abruzzo, Italy, that flows with wine instead of water?

On December 25, 336, over three hundred years since Jesus' death, the earliest Christmas celebration was recorded.

A goat represents the Capricorn zodiac sign, but it's no ordinary goat. The mythical creature has goat hooves and a fishtail.

There's a five-gift rule to filling Christmas stockings; these five gifts should be: a need, a want, to read, to wear, and to do.

The story of Hanukkah does not appear in the Torah, the Holy Book of the Jewish faith, because it happened after it was written.

Did you know that in Tennessee, it was illegal to teach the theory of evolution in schools between 1925 & 1976?

The Bible doesn't mention the names of the wise men that visited baby Jesus. It only states the gifts that they brought.

Did you know that the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus rex fossil was unearthed in South Dakota?

Did you know that the first Thanksgiving meal included venison, fowl, corn, nuts, and shellfish?

Did you know that the centaur holding the bow and arrow in the Sagittarius Zodiac symbol is named Chiron?

The largest library in the world is situated in London, England, and it contains over 160 million books and manuscripts.

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