Huge insects are terrifying. No one wants to be assailed by horse flies or mosquitoes the size of your fist. But in a way, tiny insects are even more terrifying. A mosquito the size of your fist ... well, at least you can see it coming. Midges, chiggers and flies? Ugh.
Read MoreWouldn't it have been great to be a woman in the Renaissance? All those fancy dresses, and the ... fancy dresses. Nope, life pretty much sucked for women in the Renaissance. And guess what? You didn't even get a fancy dress.
Read MoreIf you loved Sesame Street as a child, then you should hate that woolly mammoths went extinct. After all, wasn't Snuffleupagus a tusk-less woolly mammoth? One possibility is that mammoths took a wrong turn on the way to Sesame Street and ended up on Cemetery Street. But scientists have other ideas.
Read MoreBruce Lee is a true legend. Even in his short 32 year life span, he left a mythical legacy. Most people assume Lee was a highly decorated martial arts master. But believe it not, he never actually earned a black belt in any discipline, or any other rank, for that matter.
Read MoreWhen Bruce Lee threw his one-inch punch, the man it struck "[flew] back at least five meters (16.4 feet)." That's nearly 200 times the distance his fist traveled. If someone told you Bruce Lee could bruise the air just by shadowboxing, you'd probably believe it. How on Earth did he punch that hard?
Read MoreEarth isn't dirt all the way through — the dirt and rock that make up Earth's crust only go down about 19 miles. Under the crust, there are four additional layers — the upper mantle, the lower mantle, the outer core, and the inner core, and those parts of the planet are pretty inhospitably hot.
Read MoreBruce Lee was a true international man of mystery, with immense mental and physical strength. The result was a man who had total confidence in his ability to achieve greatness, and followed through with it by just about every metric. Fame? Check. Chiseled abs? Check. Fortune? Absolutely.
Read MoreWith its over-the-top characters and larger-than-life brawls, WWE and the world of pro wrestling is built on spectacle, pomp, and circumstance. Sometimes, though, WWE has gone a little too far. Here are the most controversial things the WWE has ever done or been party to.
Read MoreThe professional wrestling industry is downright fascinating to follow in the fall of 2019. In some ways, there's never been a better time to be a pro wrestler or somebody who announces for smaller promotions. And any of the individuals spotlighted in this piece could become the next face of WWE.
Read MoreThousands of years after the collapse of their civilization, the Greek empire still reigns as one of those most successful of all time. Sure they gave us things like the Olympics, but they were more than just athletes. They were thinkers, and pioneers in many areas of science and philosophy.
Read MoreCats love to make biscuits. In case you don't happen to be a cat person and have no idea what we're talking about, "kneading" or "making biscuits" is when a cat steps on something soft and then alternately pushes on the soft surface with each foot (sometimes with, sometimes without claws). But why?
Read MoreMount Everest is one of the world's most alluring places. As the highest point on Planet Earth, it's one of the few destinations people will happily risk their lives to get to. Sometimes when the mountain's victims die in highly visible places they become landmarks. Such is the case of Green Boots.
Read MoreThough 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.
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