This is the Yes or BS blog, where you can play the game for yourself. Either pick a random story from the pictures below, or choose your specialist subject from the categories listed here. Just read the story through and decide whether, YES, you think it’s true, or no, you think it’s total B.S—then click you answer in the box at the bottom of each post to see if you’re correct.
The new Google Maps update was next to useless. (Pixabay) Here’s a quick trivia question to kick things off: what do Russia, Turkey and Egypt all have in common? Have a think. I’ll wait. If you know your world geography then you’ll doubtless have worked out that these are the world’s three “transcontinental” countries—nations that straddle the traditional boundaries between the continents. So with the Ural Mountains taken as the boundary between Europe and Asia, Russia falls
Is the hustle and bustle of modern life getting you down? Does the thought of that alarm going off tomorrow morning make you shudder in dread? Or have you ever thought, “You know what— sunlight is way over rated, I’d love to get rickets.” If you’re thinking that last sentence took something of a swift left turn, bear with me—because if you answered yes to any of those questions, then you may just like to move to the ancient Phoenician temple of Akaziwalawa. Located in what is
When you think of Ancient Egypt, what do you picture? The mighty pharaohs overseeing their grand empires? Magnificent art and ancient architecture? A giant god with a scarab beetle for a head? If your mind jumped straight to the scarab beetles, then you might have been thinking of the Egyptian deity Khepri, who represented gluttony and indulgence in Egyptian mythology. (His scarab beetle head was to scale, incidentally, so he wasn’t a giant god with a tiny beetle head in case