The Untold Truth Of Carnivals
Carnivals aren't all fun and games. Let's look into the lesser-known history of just how these things began.
Read MoreCarnivals aren't all fun and games. Let's look into the lesser-known history of just how these things began.
Read MoreA mysterious virus has been discovered in Brazil, and scientists are absolutely shocked because over 90 percent of its genes are completely unrecognizable. Yeah, this virus is changing the scientific game.
Read MoreJeffrey Lendrum is currently on his fifth stint serving jail time for the same nefarious act. And what is that crime, you ask? Well, it’s egg-smuggling. In fact, the man is so notorious that he’s known as the ‘Pablo Escobar of eggs.’
Read MoreTrue love, we’re told, is forever. But what if death gets in the way? Well, that didn’t stop Bess Houdini, wife of the famous magician. When Harry Houdini passed away, she did her best to keep the relationship going.
Read MoreE.T. might be out there phoning home, and Canadian scientists just wiretapped him. A new discovery born of a collaboration between the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment and the Fast Radio Burst Project has scientists as baffled as they are enthusiastic.
Read MoreBob Seger plugged away at music for more than 50 years. From his athletic background to the real reason he retired, here's the untold truth about Bob Seger.
Read MoreThere's no telling where Poppy might pop up, what she might do, and who she might be working with. But who is she, really? How did she come up with her peculiar character, and what's her endgame with all of this oddness? Let's take a look at the untold truth of Poppy.
Read MoreIf all you know about King Solomon is he once threatened to cut a baby in half and the most uncomfortably sexy book of the Bible is named after him, you've got a lot to learn. Climb up the robot lion steps of Solomon's mechanical throne to learn the splendiferous untold truth of King Solomon.
Read MoreExperts provide very different estimates of how long it would take before your burial to become timely. But how long can you really live if you've been buried alive?
Read MoreNo one likes to receive a student loan statement in the mail, but Dan Cain's family just might take the cake in this particular regard. Cain was just going about his day when suddenly, the mail arrived like the vengeance of several pantheons of gods from ancient religions.
Read MoreFew people want to go through all the bother of digging up a backyard, but these people got more than they bargained for when they dug up these weird things.
Read MoreFor that reason, astrobiologists spend most of their time examining the most extreme environments here on Earth in an effort to extrapolate potential habitats in the universe beyond. One such environment was recently uncovered in a new study of a substance known as "flammable ice".
Read MoreIt's Always Sunny in Philadelphia features some of the bleakest, strangest comedy on TV. How did a show this weird and wild come to be?
Read MoreThe history of one of cinema's bravest/campiest pirates is stranger than you might think. There are a lot of odd twists and turns in this swashbuckler's saga.
Read MoreOf the many students who trained under the grandmaster Ip Man, none are as famous as Bruce Lee. And if Bruce Lee is the most iconic martial artist in cinematic history, the outfit that he will always be remembered in is the yellow tracksuit he wore in Game of Death, his final performance.
Read MoreToday, we can take comfort in the potential for a more magical tomorrow, as a baboon in South Africa has re-enacted the opening of The Lion King with a baby lion.
Read MoreHave you ever heard the saying about things going "from bad to worse?" This is not one of those stories. It involves beer, lost dogs, and eventually, a happy ending.
Read MoreFor many people, it takes most of a paycheck just to make rent. Why is housing so darned expensive?
Read MoreWe can now add a new entry to our unofficial Noodle Hall of Fame: Noodles have inspired a brand new, super-tough, flexible synthetic tissue that is able to heal from damage and even "defend itself." Now that's impressive.
Read MoreA cat deemed "the world's worst" has found a home, proving that anything is possible.
Read MoreThis particular year features one particular date that gives "mathematicians and geeks" chills. We're talking, of course, about 02/02/2020, a date that gave us events such as the Super Bowl and the Groundhog Day. Its eight digits double as a palindrome -- an extremely rare occurrence.
Read MoreHave you ever felt like your life was so pointlessly repetitive that you felt tempted to punch a clock to death? That's what Groundhog Day does to you. Here's how it all got started.
Read MoreTo make an omelet you have to break a few eggs, but to make a pharmaceutical you have to break the bank. But that may change, thanks to a team of eggheads at Harvard and Tel Aviv University who have managed to reproduce a human via tiny chips.
Read MoreTo say that Colombian cartel kingpin Pablo Escobar was prone to excess would be putting it mildly. At the time of his death in 1993 Escobar was worth an estimated $30 billion and he was not one to conceal his immense wealth. So he bought hippos. Now, they're ruining Colombia.
Read MoreThe Beastie Boys — three friends from New York who became one of the biggest rap acts of all time — never took themselves too seriously, and the group's story remains remarkable. So make some noise and ch-check out this sure shot of the history of Brooklyn's finest, the Beastie Boys.
Read MoreCryptographers around the world have reason to rejoice, as one of the world's finest mysteries is one step closer to being solved -- or is it? Here's the news on the CIA's Kryptos sculpture.
Read MoreCanine companions have stayed by humanity's side for countless generations, and millions of Dalmatians, bloodhounds, and Shiba Inus populate the globe, of all shapes and sizes. Of all these dogs, though, which one is the weirdest?
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