Math Quiz

The word ‘bankrupt’ comes the Italian ‘banca rotta’, which literally means ‘broken bench’. This refers to the early days of banking in Italy, where the public marketplace would take place literally at the bench. If the banker ran out of money or behaved badly, his bench would be smashed to smithereens.

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City is perhaps architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s most iconic building. Wright created over 700 sketches for the museum, which was his first commissioned project in Manhattan. It was originally going to feature a red façade, as Wright believed this was the color of creation.

It might take some time to find lost things again. An Austrian fisherman dropped his wallet in a lake. 20 years later, he found it in his fishnet. And weirdly, there is a comparatively large number of people who found their long-lost wedding rings in the carrot bed...