Birthday Occasion

Most people dream in colour, but there is a high chance that those who grew up watching a monochrome television would actually dream in black and w...

One of the world’s most impressive private book collection with over 300,000 volumes belongs to Karl Lagerfeld, who stated: ‘Today, I only collect...

Palms are evergreen, never losing their leaves in winter. Remaining fresh through all seasons, some palms depending on the species, can live for mo...

Interesting trivia on movies: In Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Arnold Schwarzenegger was paid around $21,000 for every one of the 700 words he said ...

Americans eat more popcorn than any other country. An annual consumption of over 17 billion litres in volume, it would comfortably fill the Empire ...

Created by Le Dolci bakery in Toronto, the most extravagant cupcake costs an eye-watering $900 (£540) for the bespoke baked good, with ingredients ...

It is not recorded how many people shared to finish it, but the largest cupcake ever made was apparently one baked in Washington DC, weighing a mas...

Italian geneticists found that a compound called resveratrol found in grape skins, can prolong the life of vertebrates. The compound, also delays t...

Birthday cakes originate from the ancient Greeks who made round shaped cakes with candles, offered to the Moon Goddess. It was believed that candle...

In the UK, cards from the Royal Family are sent to those celebrating their 100th,105th birthday and every year thereafter.

The average American eats 25 pounds (over 11kg) of candy every year. The people of Denmark consume even more candy, with an average annual consumpt...

Guinness World Record for the longest birthday was set by Sven Hagemeier who kept his 26th birthday going for 46 hours by flying from Auckland in N...

Alphabetti Spaghetti manufactured by the H. J. Heinz Company, was successfully sold for 60 years until it was discontinued in 1990. In a bid to cou...

The 20th century saw the average life expectancy shooting up 30 years, which is the greatest gain in 5,000 years of human history. Making it to bei...

The first birthday cake is believed to have been made in Germany in the Middle Ages. Germans would hold a Kinderfest celebration for the children's...

Studies show that those who have a positive outlook about ageing outlive those with negative views by several years, regardless of pre-existing hea...

The word “novel” as an adjective, dates from the early 1400s, and comes from the old French word “novel/nouvel” meaning “new, recent, young and fre...

Some say that the custom of the birthday cake goes as far back as ancient Greece where, birthday candles were lit on cakes with the belief that the...

Old enough to know, too young to give a shit. Happy birthday!

A recent Gallup poll of 340,000 people of a wide age group, indicate that “by almost any measure,” people become happier in their later years. They...

A study revealed that both men and women agree that men remain “immature” well into their late 30s and early 40s, whereas the average age at which ...

The ‘ribbit' frog sound was introduced in the early movie days thanks to Hollywood filmmakers who needed frog sounds to simulate a night setting. W...

Chick - most likely is a derivative from the spanish word "chica", is embraced today as a positive term of self-reference and an expression of cama...

According to a professor at Harvard states that in order to grow old and happy: “You have to keep your sense of humour, give something of yourself ...

In Britain “barking” is short for “barking mad”. The area of Barking is sometimes cited as the origin, attributed to the alleged existence of a med...

Some historians say that the custom of the birthday cake goes as far back as ancient Greece when it was believed that the candles were lit on cakes...

There are over seven billion people in the world today. Amongst this vast number of human beings, it is only the exceptional few that are born a le...

Image taken from a vintage electric publicity poster. Did you know that only 10 percent of energy in a standard light bulb is actually used to crea...

Image taken from an 1897 poster by Edward Penfield - one of America’s most famous poster artists. Often referred to as the father of American poste...

In the United Kingdom cards from the Royal Family are sent to those celebrating their 100th, 105th birthday and every year thereafter.

In the United Kingdom cards from the Royal Family are sent to those celebrating their 100th, 105th birthday and every year thereafter.

Text on the reverse side:A recent Gallup poll of 340,000 people of a wide age group, indicate that “by almost any measure,” people become happier i...

Marylin Monroe's tribute to president John F Kennedy, sung in 1962, is the most famous rendition of the Happy Birthday song.