(Image credit: Keith Allison)From high-fives to ai...  ...e the trick.4. THE HIGH FIVEThe high five’s origin is contested, but it certainly got a boost in 19...  ...s that her ‘bright sayings’ were not original by raising both hands above her head with the fir...

We've covered the history of margarine, but the development of real dairy butter goes back further than written records. When dairy farmers found that agitation separates the fat from the liquid in milk, the result was a...

Folk tales are passed down from one generation to another, changing a little along the way -kind of like evolution, only faster. Anthropologist Jamie Tehrani of Durham University studied the history of the folktale Littl...

[http://youtu.be/zZZKJCkUZCo] (YouTube link)All these years later, animator Simon Tofield is finally letting us in on how Simon's Cat came to be. We've been in love with the cat since we posted that first video in 2007....

[caption id="attachment_67950" align="alignleft" w...  ...what about those earlier primates? Where did they originate ? Until about 20 years ago, the answer seemed obv...

This unintentionally goofy mistranslation appe...  ...age in a Chinese dollar store. Unfortunately, the original photographer is unknown. -via Dangerous Minds

From our pal mental_floss, here's a really fun pos...  ...loss, here's a really fun post by Stacy about the origins of ... the Muppets! Here are two of my favorites:...

The following is reprinted from Uncle John's...  ...g: Ask someone a question they can’t answer Origin : Actually refers to tree stumps. “Pioneers...  ...pend a wild night out, usually involving drinking Origin : “This colorful term … probably originated...