Spot the Difference

Have you ever signed a postcard or a letter with an X to stand in for a kiss? The origins of this custom may date back to medieval times when people who couldn’t write used the X as their signature in front of a witness. To show their sincerity, the X was then kissed.

The Pokémon universe has quite the parasite in it. Remember Parasect? He’s actually two Pokémon. The crab is actually being possessed by the mushroom section of the mon. Bizarre, no?

There’s a persistent belief that the works of Shakespeare were actually written by someone else – the Earl of Oxford, Francis Bacon and Christopher Marlowe being the top candidates. This questioning of authorship is mostly due to the bias of 19th century scholars who couldn’t accept that such brilliant literature was written by a mere commoner.