True or False? In 2001, a third-year medical student at Yale University, Jeffrey Seiden, was studying his electrocardiography textbook one day, when he happened to notice the following message in the book’s copyright notice: “Congratulations for your perseverance! You may win the car on page forty six by writing down your name and address, and submitting it to the publisher.” …
True or False? Have you ever wondered how to tell which bread is freshest? Many of us squeeze loaves to determine their softness, some even try to smell it. But there’s actually a much easier way. Every packaged loaf of bread comes with some kind of a closure. Because breads were once baked in bakeries, then delivered to the stores …
True or False? Baby cages were hung outside apartment windows. Built and distributed in London, to the members of the Chelsea Baby Club in 1937, the ‘Baby Cage’ was meant for women with children that were without a backyard, garden or terrace for them to play in or on. When secured from a window, the baby cage hung from the …
True or False? Currency is subject to printing errors, so over the course of time, a number of coins and banknotes with misprints were bound to have been found in circulation. Often such ‘misstrikes’ make those particular items more valuable than they otherwise would have been. In the case of Canadian paper currency, an unusual image, a demon, which was …
