Humans invented the internet, buses, doctors who can save you if you get hit by a bus, and best of all, sliced bread. These inventions were made possible by the rise of civilizations, and for that, modern humans have ancient Mesopotamia to thank.
Read MoreOld MacDonald had a farm, and on that farm he probably had a barn. Even though the song never mentions a barn, you can probably picture it. In fact, even if you got the animal sounds mixed up as as a kid, you could still say with utter certainty that Old MacDonald had a red barn on his farm.
Read MoreWhen Westley battled a rodent of unusual size (R.O.U.S) in The Princess Bride, he probably had no idea that there once existed a rodent whose usual size was even bigger: the giant beaver.
Read MoreIf memes have taught us anything about Soviet Russia, it's that the flag flies you. That's because it flies in the face of individual freedoms. The crimson banner bears a hammer and sickle with a star and has become synonymous with the oppression behind the Iron Curtain.
Read MoreWhat would happen if you got lost in space -- the infinite abyss of total unknown, devoid of the very resources human beings require to survive? There would be no galactic K-Mart managers to save you, and most likely your soul would be headed for the clearance rack.
Read MoreThe competition for "most poisonous caterpillar in the world" is neck and neck, which is also a pretty great physical description of the caterpillars themselves. Though low on the list of animals that you might consider lethal, Mother Nature never stops coming up with ways to kill you.
Read MoreNothing says "used to be kind of cool a few decades ago" like Mötley Crüe, a band which managed to emerge from the primordial ooze of booze to sell over 100 million records, according to Loudwire. Somehow, Mötley Crüe is one of the best selling bands of all time. Here's how they got their name.
Read MoreIf there's such a thing as being too prepared, doomsday preppers are the poster children. But you're crazy until you're right, so we'll reserve our judgement for judgement day. If you're in the market for a doomsday bunker in order to survive the next apocalypse, here's what it'll cost you.
Read MoreScience Alert has reported the discovery of a 2,000 year old burial site with dozens of mummies near Saqqara in Egypt, long known as a "city of the dead." But these mummies are different from what we usually expect to find at a burial site, and are shedding new light on ancient Egyptian customs.
Read MorePeople love their pets, especially when the animal itself can be a lucrative source of income and social status. It should be no surprise then, that the world's most expensive pet is a thoroughbred horse. His name? Green Monkey.
Read MoreMike Rowe, the famed host of Discovery Channel's Dirty Jobs, became hugely popular for his depictions of real world, blue collar jobs. The secret? He never met a job he didn't like -- or at least one that he wasn't willing to try.
Read MoreOn top of the over-the-top fees, underhanded luggage handlers, and handsy TSA agents, there's a less obvious threat you have to worry about at airports: USB ports. It turns out that the seemingly harmless activity of charging your smartphone at a public kiosk can leave you vulnerable to cyber crime.
Read MorePeople love hidden secrets. People love finding hidden secrets, and also creating hidden secrets. Secrets just grab a human's attention. And in cars, they're even more fun because you can look for hidden secrets while barreling down the freeway. Here are cars with hidden secrets.
Read MoreThe human brain is full of technical glitches, storage issues, and not a little bit of confusion. That can lead to some pretty weird stuff.
Read MoreWe don't do sideshows anymore, because we have the internet now. One of the saddest cases of a circus sideshow act was that of the Hilton sisters — conjoined twins who were beautiful, talented, exploited, and eventually forgotten. This is the untold truth of the conjoined Hilton sisters.
Read MoreThe Mythbusters' high energy, explosive performances sparked a generation's curiosity. Safety was always a priority, but things still were liable to get out of hand In an interview, the pair confessed that their biggest worry had nothing to with ballistics or explosions. It was a car crash.
Read MoreIn Star Trek, you don't get to the top without getting your hands dirty, and Captain Jean-Luc Picard is no angelic exception. From lying and cheating to breaking hearts and maybe just straight-up manslaughtering his best friend, here's the worst stuff that Star Trek's Captain Picard has ever done.
Read MoreThis just in: Scientists have invented a device that can access your kitty's brain and record all of his or her dream images. Just kidding. The truth is we will never really know exactly what cats dream about, but we can make a pretty good guess.
Read MoreIt started with a tweet. On Sunday, October 6, 2019, Houston Rockets GM Daryl Morey perched in a Tokyo hotel room, where his team was playing two preseason games, and tweeted "Fight for freedom, stand with Hong Kong." The tweet was quickly deleted, but its reverberations would linger much longer.
Read MoreYou might think that "how many dog breeds are there?" would be a question with a black and white answer. After all, we know how many different kinds of bears there are, and how many different elephants. And dog breeds are controlled by human beings, so how hard could it be to keep track of them?
Read MoreJust about everyone who's ever owned kittens at one point or another has said the words, "I wish they'd stay little forever!" Well guess what, if only you'd bought yourself a Singapura (Get it? Singa-PURR-a?), then your cat would literally have stayed little forever.
Read MoreAdam Savage is the former host of Mythbusters, a maker extraordinaire, and the person everyone wants to be friends with (if only because he seems to have unlimited access to explosives). But how much is this lovable ginger worth now?
Read MoreMeet the cassowary, considered to be "the world's most dangerous bird." Cassowaries are closely related to the extinct terror bird, which has a fairly self-explanatory name. They are second only to ostriches in terms of weight, but make them look like parakeets in terms of danger.
Read MoreThe Apollo program kept the American public captivated. It gave us some great film and some timeless soundbites. It also cost $28 billion. In today's dollars, that's around $288 billion. Now, NASA is finally planning to go back. How much would it cost to send humans to the moon in the 2020s?
Read MoreWhat would happen to life on Earth if plants suddenly disappeared? Well, no one would ever have to eat Brussels sprouts again, that's for sure. But for the most part, the outlook for planet Earth in the absence of plant life is pretty terrible. Worse yet, Nature tells us we're already halfway there.
Read MoreJeopardy's Alex Trebek has been handsomely rewarded over the years for helping other people win large amounts of money by answering trivia questions. (Or "questioning" trivia "answers," because that's the whole deal with Jeopardy! ) He gets e a nice salary, but how much is Alex Trebek really worth?
Read MoreSome iconic names come to mind when thinking of fast fists. Mohammed Ali... Bruce Lee... Little Mac from the Punch-Out!! games... Amazingly, none of them hold the title of world's fastest puncher. Who does? The answer's about as straightforward as a right hook.
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