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Almost three-quarters of our blue planet is covered in water, and—for an equally accurate and verifiable statistic—absolutel…
Almost three-quarters of our blue planet is covered in water, and—for an equally accurate and verifiable statistic—absolutel…
“Mafia,” as the term is used today, refers to many well-structured hierarchical organizations dedicated to criminal pursuits…
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Ah, murderers. There’s just something so interesting about the worst people in history. We’re obsessed with what motivates t…
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We should all know that mass production by giant corporations has resulted in a great many questionable ingredients finding …
Every minute, five hundred hours of video are uploaded to YouTube, making it the most saturated market since Starbucks opene…
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The human body is a mystery. And as far as science and medicine have come—and it is incredibly far—the chemical machines tha…
Hundreds of new films are released in theaters each year, but some movies never even make it through the production phase. T…
Unless you’ve been living under a rock since before the 1950s, you’ve heard of The Guinness Book of World Records. It is the…
As stated on ourworldindata.org, “You need not look much further than the animal world to find behavior that is truly fascin…
Our definition of “weird food” is so subjective that it’s difficult to define and call something as it is. At the age of ten…
From the common saying of the phrase “Break a Leg” to the absolute refusal to mention a certain play involving certain witch…
Time has this weird habit of marching forward, constantly and without end. Despite that, people have spent all of human hist…
President John F. Kennedy arrived at Love Field in Dallas via Air Force One on November 22, 1963, after stops in San Antonio…
Roughhousing leads to tears, and let’s be honest, so do pranks. The internet and early-2000s television have given us the no…
On September 8, 1966, Star Trek (often referred to as The Original Series) aired on NBC for the first time. The episode was …
3-D printing has come wildly far in the last decade. In the aughts, commercial 3-D printers mostly made monochrome plastic b…
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Hyperrealistic cakes started hitting the meme scene a handful of years ago, ultimately culminating in a TikTok challenge to …
Have you ever had the unshakeable feeling that something terrible was about to happen? Something that you couldn’t quite put…
The act of adorning the human body with various types of ornamentation pre-dates the written record. Whether in the form of …
This is the stuff urban legends are made of. Indeed, some prominent North American legends do include written clues left by …
No, Lee Harvey Oswald wasn’t, per his infamous claim, a patsy. Instead, he was a killer—and overwhelming evidence supports t…
Every actor has a first film or breakout role that launches their career. Some, like Al Pacino, spend years trying to top an…
Careful, online daters: the phrase “I have a hobby” no longer means “I collect Funko Pops.” From playing magic sports to ris…
Whether you’re slowly ascending that three-hundred-foot chain lift hill or blasting out of the station faster than a sports …
The world’s oldest profession is featured in films again and again. After all, it’s been said that all stories are made from…
Death is one of life’s great constants, but not all corpses end up in a tomb or urn on the mantelpiece. Whether turned into …
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There is perhaps no man shrouded in more mystery and mythology than Grigori Rasputin. Born in an obscure Siberian peasant vi…
Like it nor not, this planet is covered in a weblike network of caves, and they run deeper than you’ll ever know. For every …
Billboards are a simple yet genius advertising method, using motorists as a captive audience on busy highways. It is a marke…
If you’re in the market for it, chances are it exists. And if you have one to sell, someone’s probably willing to buy it. Th…
Music has the ability to evoke all kinds of emotions in us, but all too few of them make us laugh. Fewer still have titles t…
In the blink of an eye, technology has taken us from prey to predator and from caves to the cosmos. It’s moved so fast that …
The world loves a hero, and the more unlikely, the better. Naturally, there are the obvious stars who will inevitably get th…
They’re creepy. They’re crawly. They’re literally everywhere we go, whether we notice them or not. They’re also the inspirat…
The werewolf is one of the most iconic monsters of history, both fictional and historical. From the Legend of King Lycaon to…
The Force is strong with this one, or maybe they had too much to drink that night and came up with a ridiculous fan theory. …
Not all structures are built equal. Some are bland and serve a basic purpose, while others are extraordinarily elaborate and…
We’ve come a long way from fearful predictions of artificial intelligence taking over humanity, and futuristic renderings of…
Sex and cinema go together like eggplant emojis and sexting. The relations between a man and woman on screen—or a man and a …
We like to believe we live in an idealized version of democracy with a government that values our privacy. Well, I think it’…
City, suburb, farmlands, repeat. The world we’ve built for ourselves can be awfully dull and repetitive. Sure, there are som…
Pyramid schemes are a shady business model if you can even classify them as businesses. The pyramid scheme business model m…
Living through a global pandemic, it can seem like the news has slipped into an endless cycle of misery and despair. But it …
Books with endings that flopped can be a real killjoy for readers. Especially those who are passionate readers. Why is that?…
The traditional image of a psychological study involves a bearded fellow observing and waving inkblots at someone lying on a…
I quit! Most employees have had this phrase running through their minds for the longest time, but you know what? Every day t…
Every life lost following the sinking of the RMS Titanic was a tragedy. While it is impossible to know each passenger’s stor…
“This film is so…” Fill in the blank with directors whose signature techniques have not only encaptivated moviegoers but als…
The National Park Service in the United States preserves untouched natural beauty. The Grand Canyon, for example, is conside…
Writing a list about Andy Warhol’s weirdest habits is like writing a list of Chris Hemsworth’s most drool-inducing muscles; …
The “Mandela Effect” describes the phenomena in which a group of people all share a collective “false” memory of an event, d…
Science fiction writers love setting their stories sometime in humanity’s future. In the infinite hypothetical playground, w…
A man is considered lucky when something good happens to him by chance. On a daily basis, someone, somewhere, will get lucky…