In the movie Gladiator, there is a scene when the Barbarian Horde is first introduced to the audience of the Colosseum, and Maximus asks his fellow gladiators if they’ve been in the army. Hagen has, so he knows what Maximus was emphasising. He was emphasising the importance of teamwork, and…

What do you know about statues of famous soldiers on horseback? When those horses have both front legs in the air, their riders died in battles. When the horses have one front leg in the air, their riders died of injuries received in battles. When the horses have all four…

If you ever decide to busy yourself in the majestic art of making sausages in the artisan way, you have two ways to proceed. You grab a large funnel, pull the casing on the narrow end, stuff the meat into the wide end and start squeezing it through the funnel…

Did you know that in Great Britain, it’s perfectly legal for men to pee on publicly parked cars as long as they aim at one of the rear wheels and put their right hands on the vehicle? Yes, it’s a rather convoluted process. But not as convoluted as working with…

The year was around 258. Denis was the bishop of Paris, and he was highly successful at converting pagans to Christianity. With Denis’ seemingly unending conversion success, soon the pagan priests got rather pissed off with losing their congregations to Christianity. Eventually Denis got the short end of the stick…

On 22 March 2002, a joint FBI-CIA task force raided Al-Qaeda leader, Abu Zubaydah’s compound and after a fierce gunfight and suffering some serious injuries, Zubaydah was captured. The interrogation went well, and valuable information was oozing out of Zubaydah. Among others, he mentioned a guy he referred to as…

In one of his training videos, AthleanX founder, Jeff Cavaliere makes an interesting comment about biceps training, “Efficiency is what the body craves, inefficiency is what is needed for muscle growth”. What he means is that the body is looking for easier ways of doing — in this case —…

Do you know that in Kansas it’s illegal to shoot rabbits from motorboats? And while, on the surface, this is bad news, the good news is that it’s a bad plan anyway, so whether or not it’s the law, it doesn’t make a dickybird of a difference. I’ve mentioned this…