Bob Ross, the very permed and oft-bespectacled star of PBS' long-running and beloved The Joy of Painting, is many things to many people. Through many seasons of The Joy of Painting, Bob Ross encouraged, enlightened and brought, well, joy, to everyone who watched. Here are Bob Ross' best paintings.
Read MoreHow much do you want the most expensive painting ever sold? If your answer was "almost half a billion dollars," then you could be in the running to purchase the most expensive painting ever sold. Right now, that somewhat dubious distinction goes to Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi.
Read MoreWhy do so many people fear spiders? The vast majority of spiders are harmless, so it's hard to believe that the fear is based entirely on the possibility of a painful or deadly spider bite.Yet spiders are terrifying, terrifying, harbingers of ... what? Do you even know why you're afraid of them?
Read MoreThrough the Vatican's history, there are some stains. Aside from conspiracy theories and abuse scandals, there are lots of things it would rather you not know.
Read MoreLet's take a shortcut. How many times have you though then then though ... I should not take this shortcut because maybe it's a lethally stupid idea? Shortcuts are frequently responsible for grave injury, suffering, and death. Here are some people who paid the ultimate price by taking a shortcut.
Read MoreBeing a woman in Salem, Massachusetts during the infamous witch trials was extra perilous, but the world you lived in was already extra perilous. No, it wasn't fun to be a female citizen of Salem, Massachusetts circa 1692. Here's what life was really like for women during the Salem witch trials.
Read MoreDo dead bodies really stay on Mount Everest? Yes. Well, sort of. Mount Everest is a difficult case, as far as ecological responsibility is concerned, because Mount Everest is a murderous sociopath. People die on Mount Everest just about every year. And it's almost impossible to recover their bodies.
Read MoreDifferent cultures have different no-no numbers. These no-no numbers get treated like no. 2 due to negative associations in their respective cultures. The worst number in the West among Christians is 666, Lucifer's favorite evil digits. But why? Here's the real reason 666 is the Devil's number.
Read MoreWhen Road Runner encountered Wile E. Coyote, he just dropped an anvil on the guy's head. Problem solved. In real life, though, coyotes aren't really trying to eat us. So what should you do if you're out walking your dog on a peaceful summer evening and you encounter a coyote?
Read MoreThe zombie apocalypse is coming, and we need all our best scientific minds working on what to do, where to go, and how to kill them. While doctors are working on a cure for the zombie virus, statisticians built a model to figure out what might be the best place to survive a zombie apocalypse.
Read MoreWhen we heard there was a supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy we knew it meant bad news. We've seen the movies. But we have little to fear from the black hole and it's surprisingly quiet. Until now. Our galaxy's supermassive black hole might be up to something weird.
Read MoreThe first moon landing was arguably one of the most dangerous things anyone ever did. To take that kind of risk it seems like you'd want to be earning some pretty serious danger money. So what did the first man who landed on the moon make? Here's how much Neil Armstrong was paid to land on the Moon.
Read MoreThe 2019 Forbes list of the world's richest people counts 2,153 billionaires, which is 55 less than the year prior. But while the wealth of the super-rich has trended downward, wealthy women are on the rise, making history in the process. There were more female billionaires in 2019 than ever before.
Read MoreThere's no one who embodies idea of a fan who became a superstar as much as Mike Mizanin, better known to WWE devotees as the Miz. We've watched every single step of his journey for 20 years. From reality TV star to working the main event of WrestleMania, here's the untold truth of the Miz.
Read MoreThis is how much it costs to rent Richard Branson's island: $77,500 per night on a luxury island in the Caribbean. Yes, for just over one and a half times the average annual salary of one American human, you too can spend a single night on billionaire Richard Branson's secluded Necker Island.
Read MoreWhat appeared on the surface to be a trite number ended up rewriting pop music and cultural history, setting myriad records. Old Town Road by Lil Nas X lasted 19 weeks in Billboard's number 1 spot before being dethroned. Yet the apparent simplicity of its lyrics belies a deeper meaning.
Read MoreThe cost of becoming a Scientologist is high. It's not your soul the religion is after but the almighty dollar. Every level of Scientology is designed to wring a few bucks out of you, as if it were an MLM. Every level, things get more expensive. Here's how much it really costs to be a Scientologist.
Read MoreBob Ross made more than 1,000 paintings for his PBS show. But there were certainly more than that. Ross himself claimed he'd made 30,000 paintings in his lifetime, roughly 15 times as many as Vincent Van Gogh is known to have made. With that many to choose from, you should be able to buy one, right?
Read MoreWe're here to perpetuate the weird practice of lionizing a criminal's bad-guy-business-savvy by delving into Pablo Escobar's wealth, his estimated worth when he died, and how much that money would be worth today.
Read MoreThe term "water bear" is a nickname for the tardigrade, an adorable species of nearly invisible little engines that could. Tardigrades are microscopic eight legged animals with incredible powers of adaptability. So where can you find these majestic creatures?
Read MoreOccasionally, the writers of light-hearted cartoons ramp up the emotion, offering poignant scenes that can make even the most hardened tough-guy weep.
Read MoreIt's always a sad day when your favorite movie character dies, especially an animated character. Here are animated movie characters that sadly died on screen.
Read MoreG-forces, or gravity forces, increase your perceived weight when you accelerate. In fact, subjecting your body to extreme G-forces will not only make you feel both fast and fat; it can knock you unconscious. What's the highest G-force that a human can take before the Sandman comes knocking?
Read MoreConsider the following question: what color is the sun? The obvious answer would be to say "That's easy, it's..." before staring into the sky, screaming in pain, and accidentally blinding yourself permanently without ever coming up with an answer. Don't do that. Let us tell you the right answer.
Read MoreThere was a time when it seemed like the sun would never set on MC Hammer's fortune. But a life of excess and costly scandals would bring it all crashing down, and not even Hammer's trademark parachute pants would be able to soften the fall. Here's how MC Hammer lost all his money
Read MoreGreat white sharks would be dwarfed by a megalodon shark. Yet despite their obviously superior awesomeness, megalodons no longer exist. So what force of nature could have possibly been so massive, so terrifying, so overwhelming that it could be the reason megalodon sharks went extinct?
Read MoreBill Gates is a billionaire willing to part with his wealth. If all the world's billionaires had the same mentality, they could do some great things. But could billionaires end world poverty? The around 2,000 billionaires made enough money in 2018 alone to end extreme poverty 7 times over.
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