Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

Part of the wonder of Harry Potter is that the magic surrounding the characters and series only seems to grow over time. While other series peak with the release of their film versions and then peter out, people only get more attached to and fanatical about Hogwarts and its surrounding universe. Which is why these...

In the world today, we’re hearing a lot more coming out stories with happy endings – stories where parents love and accept their children for who they are no matter what, and want nothing more than for them to be happy in the life that they’re leading. Which means we’re also getting some amazing pictures...

As far as the Tonight Show hashtag games go, the raps are kind of hit or miss. That said, there’s no better way to celebrate the Super Bowl than with people on Twitter trying to rhyme words with “guacamole.” You’ll see. #13. You don’t have to wait long to see Peyton Manning in a commercial....

The “Suicide Forest,” also called the Sea of Trees, is located in Aokigahara, Japan – and beneath it lies a network of underground caves formed ages ago through their connection with nearby Mount Fuji.  One of the largest and prettiest sits just on the edge of the forest and is called the Narusawa Hyoketsu, or...

In the category of totally weird and wildly beautiful places to visit, Oregon’s Lost Lake ranks pretty high on the list. Settled in the heart of the Cascade Mountains, the stunning spectacle is a 79-acre lake bed by fast-running streams and cold creeks…except when it’s a vast expanse of meadow, instead. Because when the rainy...

Meridian Hill Park is one of the countless public parks in Washington, D.C., but there is one thing that sets it apart – in a city that struggles with statue and monument vandalization on the regular, Meridian Hill is home to the most abused statue in town. The Serenity Statue honors a relatively unknown naval...

The National Ice Core Laboratory, located in Denver, Colorado, stores samples of ice sheets collected in Greenland and Antarctica that hold the keys to Earth’s past and the history of our planet’s climate. The ice is kept in opaque cylinders and aluminum-lined cardboard tubes and stored in what amounts to a huge, freezing cold warehouse....

If you’ve done even a light reading on the history of Christianity, it should come as no surprise that the Church has a long record of opposing the sciences – particularly fields like astronomy. So it might come as a bit of a shock that you can find astronomical symbols and meridian lines in churches...

There are messy people and there are tidy people, and very few who fall in between. Me? I’m definitely the former, though the older I get, the more anxiety having a mess around me creates and the more I try to find ways to keep a cleaner house. So for me, these 5 tips turned...

Let’s be honest here – if you don’t put the words adorable and Steve Buscemi together, I don’t even know what to do with you. But on the upside, there’s no way you won’t after you read this post. 12. His Desperado character is named after him…sort of. He dies in the end, of course,...

At the beginning of a relationship, everyone wants to believe, in a blissfully ignorant way, that things will work out beautifully forever. The truth is that relationships are work, even when they’re great. And it turns out there are signs that you and your partner’s connection is healthy – if you don’t see some of them,...

We love riddles here at Did You Know, so here’s the one that was given to Bret Turner’s 1st grade students recently: If you’re wondering, the answer is the letter ‘e’, but that’s not what one of his students guessed. Keep reading. He followed it up with this gem not long afterward, and I don’t...

It comes but once a year – that exciting day when the New Marist Institute of Public Opinion releases its poll results, and we all find out the year’s most annoying words and/or phrases. This year’s word should come as no surprise, since it’s been at the top of America’s list since 2008. Whatever. Officially...

We all need a few minutes to wake up in the morning, and we all do different things to get to the point where we’re ready to start our days. I love coffee and sudoku while my husband eats a bowl of cereal and watches the end of whatever show he fell asleep watching the...

We all love a good puzzle, and if you’re like me, calling it “unsolvable” only makes you more determined to figure it out. That said, these are actually really hard. Like, really hard. Like, if you figure them out without looking, you’re way smarter than me. Give it a shot! #1. A Locked Door You...