How many movies or TV shows have you seen where a young sylph in a filmy nightgown runs through a forest in high heels to escape a bad guy? She always trips and falls down. If this makes you groan and mutter “only in the movies…”, then we think you’ll enjoy this scientific-type debunking of 11 common film and television tropes and clichés. 1. The Chloroform... READ ON

At various moments in its life, a word will hop languages, change meanings, travel through sinister moments and land in pleasant ones. But no matter how many times it’s superimposed, and how far it gets from its original source, a word doesn’t let go of its memories easily. Here are 11 modern English words with socially insensitive origins. 1. Hysteria (n.) – a wild, irrational eruption of fear or emotion Hysteria begins in the womb, or so thought the medical scholars of the 1610s, who named the... READ ON

Some of America's best-known game show hosts are actually Canadian -- including Alex Trebek, Monty Hall, and Alan Thicke. But in Canada, the game show landscape has featured plenty of painfully weird ways to win a few bucks (sorry, Loonies). Here's a rundown of the most awkward Canadian game shows. 1. Anything You Can Do This early 70s show pitted men against women "physically, mentally, and any other way you can think of." The most awkward element of the show was the requirement that the teams... READ ON

John Lennon was the leader and founding member of The Beatles. Let's take a look at a few facts you might not have known about him. 1. He was a choir boy and a Boy Scout. Yes, John Lennon, the great rock 'n' roll rebel and iconoclast, was once a choir boy and a Boy Scout. John started his singing career as a choir boy at St. Peter's Church and was a member of the 3rd Allerton Boy Scout troop. 2. He hated his own voice. Incredibly, one of the greatest singers in the history of rock music hated... READ ON