Category: Europe

Ride the subway for 30 squats!

What a healthy idea… exchanging squats for subway tickets. A special “squat-counting” ticket vending machine has been set-up at the Vystavochaya subway station in Moscow, Russia. The rides-for-squats vending machine is designed to encourage physical fitness and a healthier lifestyle;…

The Spelling Bee has a new stinger

Spellers beware! The United States National Spelling Bee has changed the rules of the spelling bee competition. Starting this year the contestants will not only have to be able to spell complicated 5 or 6 syllable words, but they will…

Happy 150th Birthday, London Underground

The world’s first underground railway is the London Underground, known lovingly as “The Tube“. It opened on January 9, 1863 and carried its first passenger the next day between Paddington and Farringdon. The Metropolitan Railway, as it was called then,…