If whales didn't exist, Jonah might have had to spend three days in the belly of an obese goldfish, which sounds super cramped. If these gargantuan animals vanished from existence, the world -- and the ocean -- would be in much worse shape.
Read MoreIt's natural to feel a calling to commune with all things green. But just how much green would you be willing to shell out to have a special plant for yourself? In terms of the most expensive plant in the world, it'll cost you seven figures.
Read MoreLife for many people in the Western world has become increasingly devoid of meaning. But just when you might have called it quits at work, sold your car and bought a ticket to Timbuktu, something happened. A puppy... nay, a savior was born. Not just any puppy -- a unicorn puppy dog.
Read MoreThe domain of science fiction is shrinking into science fact -- the same week we learned you can make vodka from carbon dioxide, the company Air Protein has announced it can make a form of meat from thin air.
Read MoreAt different times in history, a variety of materials have held the featherweight crown, with one in particular largely determined to be the lightest. Now, understand ahead of time, you won't be able to make furniture out of this stuff, but the world's lightest material is amazing in its own right.
Read MoreTim Burton isn't immune to weird Hollywood drama. You don't make incredible movies like Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, and Mars Attacks! without a few weird things happening. Here are some bizarre things that happened on the set of Tim Burton movies
Read MorePerhaps the closest thing the modern world has to the Roman Colosseum is the NFL arena, which is way less extreme. But there's one respect in which the NFL is way more extreme than ancient Rome's meat grinder: stadium costs. Here's how much it would cost to build the Roman Colosseum today.
Read MoreIf you're itching for a chicken that you can comfortably smuggle through airport security in your fanny pack, boy, have we got great news for you. Look upon the Serama, a breed of Kentucky fried excellence coming to you from Malaysia. The Serama came here to do two things: be small and act big.
Read MoreWhether you're a Keno player chain smoking at your local casino or just someone who fell asleep watching Jeopardy, you're probably very much aware that Wheel of Fortune is still on the air. But you might be surprised at just how much Pat Sajak and Vanna White make per year.
Read MoreIn what's being hailed as a moment of triumph for those of us who were going to show up stoned anyway and a virtual guarantee that nobody will have to take home any leftover bean dip, workplaces around the U.S. are hiring marijuana dispensaries to cater their holiday parties.
Read MoreEgypt was a very cosmopolitan culture with a diverse mix of ethnicities. In fact, there was a time when Egypt's rulers were black, hailing from the kingdom of Kush, located in modern-day Sudan and Upper Egypt. Why don't more people know about Egypt's black pharaohs?
Read MoreAh, Chuck Norris! The bearded, roundhouse-kicking Texas Ranger who sparked a thousand memes. One of his main things has always been Karate, and how extremely good he's supposed to be at it. But Is he really a Karate champion at all?
Read MoreBill Gates is one of the richest people in the world. So you might wonder how much money he would have to spend each day to, say, go broke in a year.
Read MoreDinosaurs have been capturing the human imagination for centuries with their remarkable size, variety, and unceasing perseverance when determining whether or not someone is the mama. And as for the largest? Well, it's a funny story.
Read MoreHorses have always been cash cows for people who have a need for speed. Those people are called jockeys, they use horses as their wingmen, and they fly around the track like Pegasuses hopped-up on speed. Which horse breed is most likely to leave you riding high at the end of the race?
Read More"Mouth-fighting" sounds like one of the oddly violent sports metaphors people use in reference to French kissing. But here the term describes battles between tiny underwater worms that live off the coast of Japan which produce one of the loudest, least affectionate sounds in the ocean.
Read MorePop culture paints a grim image of the medieval executioner. So naturally, all the bloodthirsty brutes of the Middle Ages were practically foaming at the mouth in excitement and leapt at the chance to kill for a living, right? Wrong -- dead wrong, in fact.
Read MoreCow tipping has been a mainstay of the rural coming-of-age hijinks experience for decades, which begs the questions "what?" and "seriously?" and "is life in the wide open spaces of America's heartland really so dull that forcibly rotating livestock 90 degrees passes for entertainment?"
Read MoreThere are several possible reasons that you might need to know what the heaviest object in the world is. Maybe you have a five year old who refuses to go to sleep until you tell them, or maybe you're looking for something to compare your rotund opponent to in a forthcoming roast battle...
Read MoreCats are the ultimate high-landers in that they can plummet from high-rises and walk away mostly unscathed. In a kinder world they would also be Highlanders like Connor MacLeod. Then it could fall from the clouds without risking a whisker. But since they're not, which cat breed lives the longest?
Read MoreThe Taj Mahal is one of India's crown cultural jewels. Built hundreds of years ago, it is a symbol of love and a point of national pride. But it's getting older and dirtier. If something happens and it needs to be rebuilt, how much would it cost?
Read MoreOne of the most important minds behind the first moon landing was a young woman named Margaret Hamilton. The world's first software engineer, Hamilton worked night and day to make Apollo 11 a success, changing the course of history.This is the untold truth of the woman who took America to the moon.
Read MoreIf you think spellchecking doesn't matter, prepare to have your boat rocked. A 75-year mystery regarding the location of the U.S.S. Grayback has finally been solved, thanks to the correction of a single-digit typo.
Read MoreGood news for people who love screaming in terror until they're dead: a gentleman in China was reportedly treated last month after it was discovered that the persistent earache he'd been experiencing was caused by the roughly one dozen cockroaches that were living inside his head.
Read MoreIn 2019, a python measuring between 11.5 and 13 feet long was photographed regurgitating "an even fatter python of about the same length." Is there anything a snake can't cram through its cavernous maw? What's the biggest thing it can handle?
Read MoreA full-length reconstruction of the Great Wall of China, stretching the entire 13,170 miles of the original, wouldn't be cheap. But just how would it cost to build today?
Read MoreBehind the legend of Bruce Lee was Bruce Lee the man. And as amazing as Lee may have been, nobody can teach themselves to be like water: someone older, wiser, and more experienced needs to show you the ropes. For Bruce Lee, that wise mentor was a figure known as Ip Man, an icon in his own right.
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