# Curiobits

> The real (and often weirder) stories behind everyday words, inventions, customs, and the strangest laws still on the books.


## Posts

- [Why Were Chainsaws Invented?](https://curiobits.com/why-were-chainsaws-invented/): You've heard it on TikTok, in a group chat, or from that one friend who "knows a lot of stuff": "Chainsaws were invented for childbirth."
- [Why Is It Called a Jack-o'-Lantern?](https://curiobits.com/why-is-it-called-a-jack-o-lantern/): You've carved one. You've probably cut your thumb doing it.
- [Why Do We Go Trick-or-Treating?](https://curiobits.com/why-do-we-go-trick-or-treating/): It feels like one of those traditions that must stretch back centuries — kids in costumes, ancient superstition, old-world magic.
- [Why Do We Still Change the Clocks?](https://curiobits.com/why-do-we-still-change-the-clocks/): Every November, an hour disappears from your Sunday and everyone shrugs and says "daylight saving, I guess."
- [The Wheel, Who actualy invented it?](https://curiobits.com/the-wheel-who-actualy-invented-it/): The wheel gets treated as humanity's most basic, most obvious invention — the go-to example whenever someone wants to describe the simplest possible technology.
- [5 More Bizarre Laws That Are Actually Real](https://curiobits.com/5-more-bizarre-laws-that-are-actually-real/): Round three of real, cited, verifiable weird laws — this time pulling from states we haven't touched yet, plus one more myth we're happy to bury for good.
- [Why Do Brides Wear White?](https://curiobits.com/why-do-brides-wear-white/): The assumption is almost automatic: white wedding dresses represent purity, and it's an ancient tradition going back centuries.
- [Why Is It Called a Hamburger If There's No Ham?](https://curiobits.com/why-is-it-called-a-hamburger-if-theres-no-ham/): It's one of the most-asked food questions on the internet, and the setup basically writes itself: you eat a hamburger almost every week, and it has never once contained ham.
- [5 More Real Laws You Won't Believe Exist](https://curiobits.com/5-more-real-laws-you-wont-believe-exist/): We already busted the fake "weird laws" everyone repeats and gave you real, cited ones from Louisiana, Maine, Oklahoma, and beyond.
- [Why Is the Number 13 Considered Unlucky?](https://curiobits.com/why-is-the-number-13-considered-unlucky/): Ask someone why 13 is unlucky and they'll almost certainly say "the Last Supper" and stop there, like it's case closed.
- [The Toilet, Who Actually Invented it?](https://curiobits.com/who-actually-invented-thetoilet/): You've probably heard this one twice over: Thomas Crapper invented the flush toilet, and that's also where the word "crap" comes from.
- [Homework, Who Actually Invented it?](https://curiobits.com/homework-who-actually-invented/): Search "who invented homework" and you'll get the same answer everywhere: an Italian teacher named Roberto Nevilis, who supposedly created it in 1905 to punish students who weren't performing well in class.
- [Ice Cream, Who Actually Invented it?](https://curiobits.com/who-actually-invented-ice-cream/): Here's the story you've probably heard: the Chinese invented ice cream, Marco Polo brought the recipe back to Italy, Catherine de Medici brought it from Italy to France, and Thomas Jefferson brought it from France to America.
- [7 Weird Laws That Are Actually Real](https://curiobits.com/7-weird-laws-that-are-actually-real/): Every "weird laws" list on the internet has the same problem: half of them are fake.
- [Who Actually Invented Pizza?](https://curiobits.com/who-actually-invented-pizza/): Ask most people who invented pizza and you'll get the same answer: a guy named Raffaele Esposito, who whipped one up in 1889 to impress the Queen of Italy.
- [Why Do We Say "Bless You"?](https://curiobits.com/why-do-we-say-bless-you/): You sneeze. Someone — a stranger, a coworker, your dog's vet — immediately says "bless you." You didn't ask for a blessing. You just wanted to sneeze in peace.

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