Leslie Elman is a freelance writer and editor specializing in travel, art and generalist subjects. A professional trivia and quiz writer, she contributes questions for pub quiz nights around the U.S. as well as for the annual World Quizzing Championship. Her books include "The Ladies' Room Reader Quiz Book" and "Weird But True: 200 Astounding, Outrageous and Totally Off the Wall Facts."
Unlike Betty Crocker, who was a creation of the General Mills marketing department, Duncan Hines was a real person. A traveling salesman from Bowling Green, Kentucky, he sampled local restaurants as he crisscrossed the country for work. His list of f... Read More
You learn an obscure fact, and then, almost immediately, it comes up again in a different context. That phenomenon has a name — two names, actually. The term "Baader-Meinhof phenomenon" was coined by a reader of the St. Paul Pioneer Press in th... Read More
Elizabeth Spencer, Thomas Edison's favorite soprano, was one of the world's first major recording artists. (Smart woman making friends with the man who invented the phonograph!) Spencer recorded dozens of songs for Edison, from "Silent Night" to Gilb... Read More
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