Another of life’s big questions: where did the practice of using the phrase “sic ‘em” to command dogs to attack come from? No mention of where the succinct Australian variation “skitch” come from though. The phrase seems based in older language usage, but how do these sorts of things find themselves in popular usage: “Sick,” …
Everyone is used to (but nobody likes) the way that petrol prices rise and fall through the week in a way that has less to do with the cost of production and more to do with increased demand and capacity to pay. In Australia most mortgages have interest rates that can be raised (and more …
You may have heard that lemmings commit mass suicide jumping off cliffs. You may also have heard that is not true. This video from Today I Found Out provides some background to clear things up. Turns out appearances can prove deceiving.
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