The 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.
Read MoreAiring under the steady hand of host Alex Trebek since 1984, Jeopardy! is a smart game show for smart people. But every now and then, Jeopardy! lets its hair down — or submits to the chaotic nature of the universe — and the well-oiled game show machine collapses in on itself to hilarious effect.
Read MoreSome bizarre things happened on Marvel movie sets. From pranks to more pranks to music videos and more, here they are.
Read MoreThe brilliant Stevie Wonder once described music as "a world within itself, with a language we all understand." In 2012, that language was Korean. That year, South Korean rapper and singer Psy released a K-Pop masterpiece that conquered the internet: "Gangnam Style." But what did it mean?
Read MoreDespite its status as a gassy old fart, the fifth planet from the sun seems like a lot of fun. Fun fact: as of 2018, Jupiter boasts 79 moons, the most of any planet in the solar system. So you could say that Jupiter moons the universe more than any of its planetary siblings.
Read MoreThe truth about the modern candy-filled Halloween is that it was once a religious celebration, and just because it wasn't an explicitly Christian religious celebration does not mean it's Satan's holiday.
Read MoreWho's got the fastest punch in the world? The Guinness Book of World Records seems to think it's Keith Liddell, whose fists were clocked at 45 miles per hour. But those are all wrong, because the world's fastest punch does not belong to a human being, it belongs to the mantis shrimp.
Read MoreScience has finally cracked one of life's great mysteries. No, it's not the meaning of life (sorry). It's that profound question we've all spent time pondering: Why do zebras have those crazy stripes?
Read MoreImagine if you had to worry about giant fanged cats while you were camping. Forget putting your food in a bear locker--you'd have to put your whole tent in one. Saber-toothed tigers were cool, but their extinction pretty much made the whole outdoor industry possible. So why did they go extinct?
Read MoreAJ Lee is still doing all sorts of cool stuff. Let's take a look at what AJ Lee has been up to since you stopped hearing from her.
Read MoreThe opposite of gorgeous isn't hideous; it's hagfish. "Widely the most disgusting animals in the ocean, if not on earth," per Smithsonian, these appallingly jawless sea atrocities have tentacles surrounding their mouths and tooth-like keratin structures on whatever it is you call their non-jaws.
Read MoreNothing could be more Christmas-y than a Christmas tree. Except that Christmas trees actually have pagan origins, so there's that. "Wait, you mean Jesus didn't invent the Christmas tree?" 'Fraid not. So where did the idea for Christmas trees come from, and what do they mean?
Read MoreHave you ever sneaked in a little device time while on an international flight? It's hard not to. But beware. According to BBC, phones use radio waves that are at frequencies similar to the ones used by the plane's avionics, which can interfere with the plane's navigation equipment.
Read MoreThe Great Pyramid of Giza is awe inspiring, and for centuries we've been trying to solve its mysteries — with the biggest one being the mystery of how the heck anyone managed to build such a thing. We still aren't sure, but we have theories, and we also know how much it would cost to build it today.
Read MoreNobody associates Satan with good advice or good anything else unless you're somebody like Anton LaVey, who founded the Church of Satan, earning him the moniker "Black Pope." He also penned the Satanic Bible, a verbal melange of philosophy, rationalism, occult ideas, and anti-Christian criticisms.
Read MoreThe world's largest snake was a bus-sized boa that inhabited South America 60 million years ago, dubbed the Titanoboa. Don't worry, all you snake un-enthusiasts -- the Titanboa can only stalk you in your nightmares because it's extinct. Let's give you some details to scream about in your dreams.
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