Adidas will cancel any player's sponsorship deal if it turns out they have anything to do with Scientology.

"Smart people sometimes get stupid but stupid people never get smart." ~ Don Winslow

Japan had a monster-collecting card game as far back as the Edo period (1603-1868).

Princess Diana once invited Cindy Crawford to Buckinham Palace because her son Prince William had a crush on her.

Google is valued higher than Russia's entire stock market.

Peru is the world's largest cocaine producer. Colombia it seems has been dethroned.

"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold it would be a merrier world." ~ JRR Tolkien

Do you think you have fake pockets in your suit? Think again - most (decent) suit jackets have the pockets sewn shut to preserve the garment during packing.

ReCaptcha is not just to prove you're not a robot. It also is part of a project to digitise books. So far over 2.5 million books have been digitised this way.

British Columbia had a women's hockey team called the Fernie Swastikas. The team was formed in 1922 when the swastika held religious rather than hate-based significance.