Results: Strange But True Part 2

Why, Arizona sits at the junction of state routes 85 and 86 in southwestern Arizona, just north of the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument and the Tohono O'odham Nation. Back in the day, that intersection was a "Y" intersection. According to some sources, people in the area got used to saying they lived at "the Y," referring to this junction. When the community was big enough to warrant a post office, residents told authorities that their community was called "Y." The only hiccup was the law required all communities have a name consisting of at least three letters. So residents came back with "Why." Same sound and just the right number of letters. Problem solved. And now you know "Why" Why...

Marie Curie, known as the 'mother of modern physics', died from aplastic anaemia, a rare condition linked to high levels of exposure to her famed discoveries, the radioactive elements polonium and radium. After 100 years, many of her belongings, including furniture, cookbooks, clothes, and laboratory notes remain extremely radioactive. The latter are actually stored in lead-lined boxes at France's Bibliothèque National in Paris. Her body is also radioactive and was therefore placed in a coffin lined with nearly an inch of lead. Did you know this super-charged trivia?

In 1975, Marion Stokes got a Betamax magnetic videotape recorder and began recording bits of sitcoms, science documentaries, and political news coverage. From the outset of the Iran Hostage Crisis on November 4, 1979, "she hit record and she never stopped". Although no one knew it at the time, the recordings Stokes made until her death in 2012 are the only comprehensive collection preserving this period in television media history. Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project, a documentary about Marion and the archival project that became her life's work documents her life. She was no stranger to television and its role in molding public opinion. An activist archivist, she had been a librarian with the Free Library of Philadelphia for nearly 20 years before being fired in the early 1960s, likely for her work as a Communist party organizer. From 1968 to 1971, she had co-produced Input, a Sunday-morning talk show airing on the local Philadelphia CBS affiliate. Have you heard about this woman and her archived tapes?

At the Staten Island, New York eatery Enoteca Maria, not only is the menu a surprise, the cuisine is, too. The kitchen is run by a rotating roster of grandmothers — who all have a passion for whipping up meals cooked from the heart. It all started with the restaurant's owner having his own Italian grandmother cook in his kitchen. There are now 30 rotating grandmothers ages 50 to 91 from Italy and other countries including Japan, Peru and Sri Lanka serving up their native cuisines three nights a week to adoring diners. Would you like to eat at this restaurant?