Fun Facts and Trivia About The Swedish Krona
The official currency of Sweden is the Swedish krona, abbreviated SEK and written with the symbol kr. As of September 10, 2026, one US dollar is worth approximately 9.60 Swedish kronor. The word krona derives from the Latin corona, meaning crown, which reached Swedish through multiple languages. The name was adopted in 1873 when Sweden……
Things I Like: Sonic Adventure 2: Battle (GameCube)
When Sonic Adventure 2 landed on the Nintendo GameCube, it felt genuinely surreal, considering that just a decade earlier, Mario and Sonic had been the most iconic rivals in gaming. With Sega stepping away from the console business entirely, there was something almost poetic about them finding a home with Nintendo of all companies and…
Fun Facts and Trivia About Doctor Zhivago (1965 Film)
Doctor Zhivago is a 1965 epic historical romance film directed by David Lean and written by Robert Bolt, drawn from Boris Pasternak’s 1957 novel. The story unfolds in Russia across the years of World War I and the Russian Civil War, following Yuri Zhivago, a married physician and poet played by Omar Sharif, whose life…
Our Visit To The 2026 Upstate Renaissance Faire (South Carolina)
The Upstate Renaissance Faire has been running for most of the 2020s so far, kicking off after the Unitarian Universalist Church of Greenville, South Carolina, discontinued its Enchanted Chalice event back in 2020. It’s grown and evolved quite a bit since then, though we hadn’t actually attended in two or three years. Last year, my…
Fun Facts and Trivia About Nintendo’s Game & Watch Handhelds
Nintendo released the Game and Watch in the year 1980, with the first model arriving on April 28. The idea came from Nintendo designer Gunpei Yokoi, who observed a bored businessman on a train passing time by pressing the buttons of a calculator. Yokoi saw an opportunity to create something small, inexpensive, and portable enough…
Things I Like: Steve Trevor (DCEU)
Steve Trevor is genuinely one of the most notable characters in the DC Extended Universe, despite having zero superpowers of his own. Played by Chris Pine, who was already one of the biggest box office draws at the time, Steve isn’t an invention created specifically for the films either, he’s long been a staple of…
Fun Facts and Trivia About Republics
A republic is a form of government where the country is treated as a “public matter” rather than the possession of a single ruler. The people hold ultimate power but typically don’t govern directly, instead electing representatives to make laws and run the government on their behalf. Its most essential feature is that the head…
Things I Like: Marc St. James (Ugly Betty)
Marc St. James is one of the strongest presences in the main cast of Ugly Betty, particularly impressive given how little his in-story paycheck presumably reflected that contribution. For most of the series, Marc served as the personal assistant to Wilhelmina Slater, the formidable figure at Mode who, by all reasonable expectations, should have become…
Fun Facts and Trivia About Embassies/Ambassadors
The word “embassy” traces back to a Celtic word, ambactus, meaning a servant or messenger sent to carry out a task. It passed into Medieval Latin as ambactia, meaning a mission or service, then into Old French as ambassade, before English adopted it in the mid-1500s. At first “embassy” meant the diplomatic mission itself, and…
Things I Like: Grumpy Kong (Donkey Kong Bananza)
Grumpy Kong is one of the main antagonists in Donkey Kong Bananza on the Nintendo Switch 2. Of the core antagonist trio, he was probably my least favorite, though he’s still a notable character worth discussing. Despite the name, he’s apparently not related to Donkey Kong at all, as far as I’m aware. He works…
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