Though there are many contenders for the title of World's Smallest Dog Breed, with adorable bundles of love like the Yorkshire terrier and the miniature greyhound seeming like definite possibilities, there can, as with Highlanders, be only one, and it weighs only a little more than a pound.
Read MoreHorses are quite the superlative animal. Even amongst the ranks of this uber creature, some horses rank as bigger and badder than the rest. Which breed ranks as the biggest of all?
Read MoreEver since we've been putting things in water, they've been getting all biofouled, and for millennia, we've been struggling to deal. Over the ages, humans have tried everything from scraping chains against the hull to coating hulls with glass. But the answer lies in painting boat bottoms red.
Read MoreCritics must have all the wrong reasons to bash Nickelback, because in addition to a diamond-selling album, in 2017, they became the 11th best-selling band of all time, with over 50 million album sales since 1995. In short, Nickelback probably has tons of nickels to their name. How many nickels?
Read MoreThose with $1 million or more, account for 45 percent of the world's total wealth. Guess how many of them there are... If your answer was 36 million, you're correct, according to Credit Suisse's Global Wealth Report.
Read MoreLet's start by saying that narrowing down "the rarest" type of just about any animal is kind of a tall order. So let's just settle for what we believe to be "quite possibly the rarest cat breed in the world" and be happy with that.
Read MoreMotley Crue vocalist Vince Neil couldn't have known what was in store for him when he started with Motley Crue in 1981, but he's certainly done his part to promote rock star living. Vince Neil's life story is one of drugs and alcohol affecting everything else. Here's Vince Neil's real-life story.
Read MoreScience has managed to answer most of mankind's questions about dogs. But what about the big questions? The ones that keep us up at night? Why, one is forced to ask, shaking their fist to the heavens, do dogs kick up grass after dropping a deuce? And why should we give a poop?
Read MoreHumans 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.
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