
Kelly Branco, Art & Music Editor
Jun 17, 2019 | What makes you happy? (Story/Media) |
Jun 15, 2019 | Should AP testing be required in schools? (Story/Media) |
Jun 15, 2019 | Boys Tennis Senior Night was one for the books (Story) |
Jun 14, 2019 | The PTV Fun Fact of the Day was started in 2013 as a way to test the mic. (Story) |
Jun 13, 2019 | In Legally Blonde, Standford Law didn’t allow their name to be used in the movie so Harvard University stepped in. (Story) |
Jun 12, 2019 | The United States set a new record with their win at the world cup yesterday, 13-0 against Thailand. (Story) |
Jun 07, 2019 | Every year the moon is moving away from us very slowly. (Story) |
Jun 06, 2019 | Babies are born without knee caps. (Story) |
Jun 04, 2019 | Women blink twice more than men. (Story) |
Jun 03, 2019 | Looking back at my high school theater career (Story/Media) |
Jun 03, 2019 | There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball. (Story) |
May 22, 2019 | No matter what color, Fruit Loops are all the same flavor. (Story) |
May 21, 2019 | Crocs has sold more than 300 million pairs of shoes. (Story/Media) |
May 20, 2019 | The last letter to the english alphabet to be added was the letter J. (Story) |
May 16, 2019 | Pigs can get sunburn. (Story) |
May 15, 2019 | When born, baby pandas are smaller than a mouse. (Story) |
May 14, 2019 | Mr.Ratburn from Arthur is confirmed to be gay. (Story) |
May 13, 2019 | James Charles broke a record of losing the most subscribers in less than 24 hours. (Story) |
May 10, 2019 | A single spaghetti is called a “spaghetto”. (Story) |
May 09, 2019 | German chocolate cake is named after an American baker named Samuel German. (Story) |
May 07, 2019 | No cellphones are allowed inside the MET gala. (Story) |
May 06, 2019 | The unicorn is the national animal of Scotland. (Story) |
May 02, 2019 | There are 204 squares on an 8×8 chess board. (Story) |
May 01, 2019 | Harvard is the oldest college in the United States. (Story) |
Apr 30, 2019 | Ombrophiles are people who have a passionate love for rain. (Story) |
Apr 30, 2019 | Kristina Perez: From Camden to Colonia (Story) |
Apr 18, 2019 | The chicken is the closest living relative of the T-Rex. (Story) |
Apr 17, 2019 | OK Dumbledore is gay, now what? (Story/Media) |
Apr 17, 2019 | Brain waves can power an electric train. (Story) |
Apr 16, 2019 | The letter J is the only letter that doesn’t appear on the Periodic Table of Elements. (Story) |
Apr 15, 2019 | The first fruit to be eaten on the moon was a peach. (Story) |
Apr 12, 2019 | Taylor Swift recently donated $113,000 to a LGBT organization in Texas. (Story) |
Apr 11, 2019 | People who crave emotional connection take warmer showers. (Story) |
Apr 10, 2019 | Banging your head on the wall for one hour burns 150 calories. (Story) |
Apr 09, 2019 | Snakes can help predict earthquakes. (Story) |
Apr 08, 2019 | Is country music that bad? (Story) |
Apr 08, 2019 | The royal family is not allowed to play Monopoly. (Story) |
Apr 05, 2019 | Chicago the musical is based on true stories. (Story) |
Apr 04, 2019 | Chicago is the longest running American musical on Broadway. (Story) |
Apr 03, 2019 | Bob Fosse won 8 Tonys for coreography. (Story) |
Apr 03, 2019 | College isn’t meant to be fair: Analyzing recent college admissions scandal (Media) |
Apr 02, 2019 | Hunting unicorns is legal in Michigan. (Story) |
Apr 01, 2019 | One day in April in 1930, the BBC reported ” There is no news for today”. (Story) |
Mar 28, 2019 | Andrew Barth Feldmen is the youngest actor to play Evan Hansen in Dear Evan Hansen the Musical. (Story) |
Mar 27, 2019 | The “Windy City” has nothing to do with the weather in Chicago. (Story) |
Mar 26, 2019 | Cardi B is trying to claim the rights to her famous “okurt”. (Story) |
Mar 25, 2019 | Eminem wrote and recorded “The Real Slim Shady” just 3 hours before his album was due. (Story) |
Mar 22, 2019 | Most giraffes are homosexual. (Story) |
Mar 21, 2019 | Metallica is the first and only band to play on all seven continents. (Story) |
Mar 20, 2019 | The world’s fastest rapper is named NoClue. (Story) |
Mar 19, 2019 | For every $100 of music sold, the average musician only makes just $23.40 of that. (Story) |
Mar 18, 2019 | Colonia High School was one of the first schools in the state to offer Chinese as a language. (Story) |
Mar 15, 2019 | Jimi Hendrix couldn’t read or write. (Story) |
Mar 14, 2019 | It’s ok to “throw like a girl” (Story/Media) |
Mar 14, 2019 | In Italian, Pizza means “pie”. (Story) |
Mar 13, 2019 | The average American drinks about three coffee cups every morning. (Story) |
Mar 12, 2019 | Today is the 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web. (Story) |
Mar 11, 2019 | The three most highlighted books on Amazon are the Bible, Steve Job’s biography, and the Hunger Games. (Story) |
Mar 08, 2019 | 313 women have been elected or appointed to the U.S Congress. (Story) |
Mar 07, 2019 | There are a few activities that use your whole brain and music is one of them. (Story) |
Mar 06, 2019 | Flowers can grow faster by listening to music. (Story) |
Mar 05, 2019 | Your heartbeat changes and mimics the music you listen to. (Story) |
Mar 04, 2019 | Warner Music collected over two million dollars in royalties in 2008 for public usage of the “Happy Birthday” song. (Story) |
Mar 01, 2019 | How real is Reality TV? (Story/Media) |
Mar 01, 2019 | In 2008, an Ohio man chose to listen to 20 hours of classical music. (Story) |
Feb 28, 2019 | Giraffes fight with their necks. (Story) |
Feb 27, 2019 | Phantom of the Opera has changed 15 times in 30 years. (Story) |
Feb 26, 2019 | Katherine Hepburn and Daniel Day Lewis have the most Oscar wins. (Story) |
Feb 25, 2019 | Walt Disney has the most Oscars. (Story) |
Feb 25, 2019 | Valentine’s Day Interviews (Story) |
Feb 25, 2019 | Student Journalism Week 2019 Fast Questions (Story) |
Feb 22, 2019 | Expresso in Italian means “pressed out”. (Story) |
Feb 21, 2019 | Most snowflakes fall at speeds of one to 6 feet per second. (Story) |
Feb 20, 2019 | Ariana Grande’s new songs are number one, two, and three on the Billboard 100. (Story) |
Feb 19, 2019 | The last national league pitcher to win 30 games was Dizzy Dean. (Story) |
Feb 18, 2019 | thank u , next from top to bottom (Story) |
Feb 15, 2019 | Beauty and the Beast was the first animated film to be nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars. (Story) |
Feb 14, 2019 | Why everyone should read Harry Potter (Story/Media) |
Feb 14, 2019 | 36 million heart shaped boxes of chocolates are sold across the country every year on Valentines Day. (Story) |
Feb 13, 2019 | Isabelle from Animal Crossing is confirmed to be pansexual. (Story) |
Feb 12, 2019 | A sneeze travels at about 100 miles per hour. (Story) |
Feb 12, 2019 | Looking back at the iconic music of the 2000’s (Story/Media) |
Feb 11, 2019 | The first issue of Captain America was released 9 months before Pearl Harbor and the US’s involvement in WWII. (Story) |
Feb 08, 2019 | Adult male cats are lactose intolerant. (Story) |
Feb 07, 2019 | A tayberry is a cross between a raspberry and a black berry. (Story) |
Feb 06, 2019 | Clinophobia is the fear of going to bed. (Story) |
Feb 05, 2019 | Glitter was made on a ranch. (Story) |
Feb 04, 2019 | Walmart has a lower acceptance rate than Harvard. (Story) |
Feb 01, 2019 | A wicked performance by Wicked (Story/Media) |
Feb 01, 2019 | Iceland sold their last burger at McDonald’s 8 years ago. (Story) |
Jan 31, 2019 | During your life time on average you will produce about two swimming pools of saliva. (Story) |
Jan 30, 2019 | There are about 100,000 hairs on an average person’s head. (Story) |
Jan 29, 2019 | 10-20% of US power outages are caused by squirrels. (Story) |
Jan 29, 2019 | Take It or Leave it: the flop that was Rent Live (Story/Media) |
Jan 28, 2019 | The creator of RENT, Jonathan Larson, died hours before it’s Broadway debut. (Story) |
Jan 25, 2019 | Every second of Spiderman: Into the Spider-Verse took animators a week to make. (Story) |
Jan 24, 2019 | In the iconic, “Singin’ in the Rain” scene, Gene Kelly had a 103 degree fever. (Story) |
Jan 23, 2019 | You can’t snore and dream at the same time. (Story) |
Jan 22, 2019 | Crocodile’s can’t poke their tongues out. (Story) |
Jan 19, 2019 | Maus tells Holocaust survivor’s story in a new way (Story/Media) |
Jan 18, 2019 | Ariana Grande started her career playing Charlotte in 13 the musical on Broadway. (Story) |
Jan 17, 2019 | The average person spends 6 months of their life waiting for a red light to turn green. (Story) |
Jan 16, 2019 | Americans eat 100 acres of pizza every day. (Story) |
Jan 15, 2019 | Bees can fly higher than the height of Mount Everest. (Story) |
Jan 14, 2019 | Shows that came to Broadway in 2018 (Story/Media) |
Jan 14, 2019 | There are more possibilities in a game of chess than atoms in the known universe. (Story) |
Jan 11, 2019 | You can’t hum while holding your nose closed. (Story) |
Jan 10, 2019 | If 33 million people held hands it could circle around the entire Equator. (Story) |
Jan 09, 2019 | 2014 holds the record of having the most songs with repetitive lyrics. (Story) |
Jan 08, 2019 | If there wasn’t coloring added to it, the drink Coca-Cola would be green. (Story) |
Jan 07, 2019 | A cloud can weight more than one million pounds. (Story) |
Jan 04, 2019 | 51% of people think that stormy weather affects virtual clouds. (Story) |
Jan 03, 2019 | Scotland has 421 words for “snow”. (Story) |
Jan 02, 2019 | The Times Square New York Eve Ball was dropped first in 1907 and weighed 700 pounds. (Story) |
Dec 25, 2018 | Magic of Lights Show at PNC Bank Arts Center keeps the Christmas magic alive for children (Story/Media) |
Dec 21, 2018 | Tinsel was invented in Germany and once made of real silver. (Story) |
Dec 20, 2018 | Former President Obama’s favorite superhero is Spiderman. (Story) |
Dec 19, 2018 | There’s a town in the US with the population of one. (Story) |
Dec 18, 2018 | There are 70 ingredients in a McRib sandwich. (Story) |
Dec 17, 2018 | The Cookie Monster’s real name is Sid. (Story) |
Dec 14, 2018 | The DS in Nintendo DS means Dual Screen. (Story) |
Dec 13, 2018 | A Not-So-Merry Christmas, Alex Cross (Story/Media) |
Dec 13, 2018 | Bob Ross’s hair is straight. (Story) |
Dec 12, 2018 | Apples are made of 25% air which is why they float on water. (Story) |
Dec 11, 2018 | Cows moo in regional accents. (Story) |
Dec 10, 2018 | You burn more calories while sleeping than while watching television. (Story) |
Dec 07, 2018 | Stay a while in Holiday Inn (Story/Media) |
Dec 07, 2018 | Young rabbits are called kits. (Story) |
Dec 06, 2018 | French Honor Society supports Doctors Without Borders (Story) |
Dec 06, 2018 | Every minute about 12 hours of music is uploaded to Sound Cloud. (Story) |
Dec 05, 2018 | Elephants are the only mammal that can’t jump. (Story) |
Dec 04, 2018 | Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete. (Story) |
Dec 03, 2018 | 10% of the world’s population is left handed. (Story) |
Nov 30, 2018 | Apple created and launched a clothing line in 1986. (Story) |
Nov 29, 2018 | Chewing gum burns 11 calories per hour. (Story) |
Nov 28, 2018 | Seeing the rest of the story in After You is mediocre (Story/Media) |
Nov 28, 2018 | Come From Away lifts spirits (Story/Media) |
Nov 28, 2018 | There is a rose breed named after Julie Andrews. (Story) |
Nov 27, 2018 | Before color TV, 75% of people said they dreamed in black and white. (Story) |
Nov 26, 2018 | None of the numbers before 1,000 contain the letter A. (Story) |
Nov 23, 2018 | The first oranges weren’t orange. (Story) |
Nov 22, 2018 | The first Macy Thanksgiving Parade was in 1924. (Story) |
Nov 21, 2018 | Americans eat 46 million turkeys every Thanksgiving. (Story) |
Nov 20, 2018 | While trying to find a cure for AIDS, the Mayo clinic accidentally made glow in the dark cats. (Story) |
Nov 19, 2018 | Passing of the mascot (Story) |
Nov 19, 2018 | The amount of Nutella made in one year weighs the same as the Empire State Building. (Story) |
Nov 17, 2018 | Three Shakespeare Plays Everyone Should Read (Story/Media) |
Nov 16, 2018 | Queen Elizabeth II is a trained mechanic. (Story) |
Nov 15, 2018 | In the 1950’s, donut shops were the first food businesses open until late. (Story) |
Nov 14, 2018 | Thorton Wilder briefly appeared in a production of Our Town in 1938. (Story) |
Nov 13, 2018 | Stan Lee wrote training films for the army with Dr. Seuss. (Story) |
Nov 13, 2018 | AP Style Guide: Capitalization (Story) |
Nov 12, 2018 | Jellyfish don’t have ears,eyes,brains,or hearts. (Story) |
Nov 02, 2018 | Me Before You breaks hearts (Story/Media) |
Nov 02, 2018 | Many business do not give employees time off to vote. Luckily, this isn’t a problem for Colonia High staff and students! (Story) |
Nov 01, 2018 | 18-29 year olds are statistically the least likely people to vote. Meanwhile, the 60 and over age group is the least likely to vote. (Story) |
Oct 31, 2018 | The phrase “trick-or-treat” was first used in 1927 in Alberta, Canada. (Story) |
Oct 30, 2018 | Four perspectives on senior night, the last four years (Story) |
Oct 30, 2018 | Candy corn was originally called “chicken feed”. (Story) |
Oct 29, 2018 | Early jack-o’-lanterns were made from turnips, potatoes, and beets. (Story) |
Oct 26, 2018 | Sea otters hold hands when they sleep so that they do not drift apart. (Story) |
Oct 25, 2018 | The tiny pocket in jeans was designed to store pocket watches (Story) |
Oct 24, 2018 | All swans in England belong to the queen. (Story) |
Oct 23, 2018 | If you kept yelling for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would produce enough sound energy to heat up a cup of tea. (Story) |
Oct 23, 2018 | The Greatest Show comes to Colonia (Story/Media) |
Oct 22, 2018 | The Supreme Court’s private basketball court is nicknamed “The Highest Court in all the Land”. (Story) |
Oct 19, 2018 | All The Light We Cannot See opens eyes to different stories (Story/Media) |
Oct 19, 2018 | Nicolas Cage once bought a pet octopus because he thought it might help with his acting. (Story) |
Oct 18, 2018 | You’ll eat more than 35,000 cookies in your lifetime. (Story) |
Oct 17, 2018 | Most toilets flush in E flat. (Story) |
Oct 16, 2018 | The letter Q doesn’t appear in any US state name. (Story) |
Oct 15, 2018 | The worlds scariest haunted house is so scary that all guests are required to have a mental and physical evaluation before they can enter. No one has ever finished going through it. (Story) |
Oct 12, 2018 | In 1981, a black lab named Bosco was made honorary mayor of Sunol, California. (Story) |
Oct 11, 2018 | Girls’ Soccer Team Laces Up for Pediatric Cancer (Story/Media) |
Oct 11, 2018 | In Switzerland it is illegal to own just one guinea pig. (Story) |
Oct 10, 2018 | There’s an island in Japan you can visit that is filled with only bunnies. (Story) |
Oct 09, 2018 | The inventor of the Frisbee was cremated and turned into a Frisbee when he died. (Story) |
Oct 05, 2018 | Colonia High School is 51 years old, it was built in 1967. (Story/Media) |
Oct 05, 2018 | Free Press Laws in Russia (Story) |
Oct 04, 2018 | The hand jive was invented in 1957 by a group of teenagers at the Cats Basement in London. They had no room to dance so they created the hand jive to have some fun! (Story) |
Oct 03, 2018 | The most tweeted Mean Girls reference is “You go, Glen Coco!” (Story) |
Oct 02, 2018 | There are over 3.1 million breast cancer survivors in the United States, including women still being treated and those who have completed treatment. (Story) |
Oct 01, 2018 | Americans sell enough pizza every day to cover 100 acres of land. (Story) |
Sep 28, 2018 | The world’s oldest piece of gum is over 9,000 years old. (Story) |
Sep 27, 2018 | A cow-bison hybrid is called a “beefalo”. (Story) |
Sep 26, 2018 | The voice actor of Mickey Mouse and the voice actor of Minnie Mouse got married in real life! (Story) |
Sep 25, 2018 | When hippos are angry, their sweat turns red. (Story) |