The original pronunciation of Shakespeare’s work reveals hidden messages!

The Globe Theater specializes in performing Shakespearian plays in their original pronunciation (OP). Although they opened in 1994, it took a while for them to mount these plays because they thought people wouldn't understand 400-year-old accents. However, after they performed Romeo and Juliet in OP, they became quite popular and they haven't looked back.

How did they revive a 400-year-old English accent? First, they looked at contemporary writing. Reviews and other writings about Shakespeare's plays would comment and make observations on how certain words rhymed and played together. The second is through spelling. Finally, there are rhymes and puns that don't work in our modern English, but do in Old English. The pronunciation itself reveals jokes and messages that are hidden to us now! If you want to learn some of them, check the source below.

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Buses got their names after a hat shop in France!

Besides having the greatest band of electronic music ever (If “Daft Punk” didn’t come to your mind you need some serious help), the French also have the credit of being the ones who named the “bus”.

The word “bus” itself comes from the Latin word “Omnibus”, in other words is a clipped form of this word. The bus is also called multibus or autobus, depending in which country you are at.

This was actually a reference to “Omnes Omnibus,” which was the name of the hatter shop located next to the first bus station in Nantes, France back in 1823, whch was in turn a Latin pun on the name of the owner, “Omnès”.

Another fun fact is that the bus is still called “omnibus” in several countries throughout the world! An example would include Argentina.

The bus is in fact one of the greatest inventions ever, however, there are some evil bus drivers out there that no matter how fast they see you chasing them across the street, they’ll just step the gas pedal deeper, and deeper and share an evil laugh as you are falling behind.

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The Kennedys redecorated the White House since Mrs. Kennedy thought the furniture was too cheap!

Back in 1961, Jackie Kennedy decided to do a renovation of the White House by replacing the cheap furniture bought by the Trumans with pieces of the White House historical furniture!

Jackie Kennedy was so obsessed with the whole redecorating process, that along with Dorothy Mae “Sister” Parish she started the job right away. She started by reediting several of the family bedrooms and few other rooms. She decided to do several redecorations around the entire house! For instance, she converted the former Prince of Wales suite into a Private Dining Room!

The Kennedys were able to declare the White House a museum, they did this in order to preserve it and they accepted many antique furniture that fitted the White House! She even asked the Eisenhowers to give back the Washington era China they had taken home after leaving office!

Many of the “modern” rooms seen at the White House are all renovated thanks to Mrs. Kennedy’s great sense of decoration. So next time you decide to pay a visit to the White House remember that behind all it's history, the Kennedy era is among it.

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Lighting hit a WWI bomb forgotten by the British and the bomb killed a cow!

This cow could be considered a close relative of “bad luck Brian”, especially since it is considered the single unluckiest cow in history of existence because it died from a bomb explosion that was caused from a lighting that was able to detonate a 50,000 pound bomb that was forgotten by Britain for over 20 years!

During WWI, 21 enormous mines were buried in the Belgian countryside by the British army, making these 21 mines the largest planned non-nuclear explosion in history!

General Herbert Plumer of the British army spent 18 months planning this single deadliest non-nuclear blast, making each mine heavier than 50,000 pounds each! That would be a grand total of 600 tons!

However, only 19 of those bombs went off, killing over 10,000 Germans. One of the two remaining bombs was struck by lighting and thus it killed the poor cow. As for the other one it's location it’s still unknown. Let’s hope “Bad Luck Brian” doesn’t visit Belgian territory anytime soon.

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A single fungus may have over 10,000 different genders!

A topic that always comes abroad during your biology class is fungal sex (well maybe not, yet it’s interesting), so when it comes to talk about fungi gender it might get a little bit tricky, but don’t worry! We are here to help you understand!

Contrary to humans in which there are men and there are women from a strictly reproductive point of view, among fungi, any individual con donate or receive genetic material, and hence either be a daddy or a mommy.

Some fungi only have two mating types (bipolar), some have four or more possible mating types (tetrapolar) and a few fungi, for instance Schizophyllum commune, have more than ten thousand mating types!

So this type of fungus can pretty much mate with any other fungi he/she wants, since everyone can be a potential mate!

So next time you think of yourself as a great “player” remember that some fungi can get a lot more action and fun than you.

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