Leslie Elman is a freelance writer and editor specializing in travel, art and generalist subjects. A professional trivia and quiz writer, she contributes questions for pub quiz nights around the U.S. as well as for the annual World Quizzing Championship. Her books include "The Ladies' Room Reader Quiz Book" and "Weird But True: 200 Astounding, Outrageous and Totally Off the Wall Facts."
Monday, Feb. 5 Opened in the year 705, Koshu Nishiyama Hot Spring, Keiunkan is the world's oldest hotel still in existence. That's nearly 1,320 years of operation, under the supervision of 52 generations of the same family owners. The inn's founder,... Read More
Opened in the year 705, Koshu Nishiyama Hot Spring, Keiunkan is the world's oldest hotel still in existence. That's nearly 1,320 years of operation, under the supervision of 52 generations of the same family owners. The inn's founder, Fujiwara Mahito... Read More
During the Viking Lander missions to Mars in the 1970s, NASA began using the time increment "sol" as the equivalent of a Martian "day," because a day on Mars lasts 24 hours, 39 minutes and 35.244 seconds — about 3 percent longer than a day on E... Read More
Introduced in 1903 — more than 30 years before Monopoly — Pit was a parlor card game inspired by the agricultural commodities market. Game play was a chaotic free-for-all — not unlike the real exchange floor — in which players... Read More
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