Most artists record their music in a well-equipped studio, with quality gear, air-conditioning, and other luxuries. Others, however, go for a different approach. Plenty of albums, both popular and obscure, have been recorded in rather unusual locations. Sometimes artists do it as a marketing gimmick, sometimes the place serves as inspiration, and sometimes they just …
Do you think you’re house is clean, that you’re a clean person? You may be surprised at how often some of the nastiest household items need to be changed out. Sponge Ok, we all know how yucky these can get, and that they can easily be the nastiest household items. But here are the other …
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You love brands like Nike, McDonald’s and Levi’s, but what do you really know about them? Here are some of the craziest facts you didn’t know about your favorite brands. Ben and Jerry’s Whether it’s Topped Dirt Cake or New York Super Fudge Chunk, Ben and Jerry’s has some of our favorite and the most …
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Happy St. Patrick’s Day, everybody! We hope you’re wearing something green. Outside of whiskey, St. Paddy’s is probably one of the most famous exports from Ireland. But there’s more to the Emerald Isle than alcohol and celebration that resulted in rivers dyed green. Here are six facts about Ireland to celebrate this most Irish of …
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We all know the classic tale of cursed objects or items. Whether ancient, sacred relics from distant lands or one-time possessions of a disturbed individual, bad things happen to people who come into contact with them. But did you know that some actual, real-life object bear a genuine bona-fide curse? Or at least people claim …
Nature is wild, and you can never trust that certain things are the same from species to species. For example, animal genitals can get mindbogglingly bizarre — or even deadly. But what about butts? They’re just holes to expel waste, surely they serve the same purpose whatever animal you’re looking at? Oh, you sweet innocent …
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You need to have a real silver tongue to say something that people will remember hundreds of even thousands of years later. But human history is long, and we’ve luckily had plenty of such people. They’ve said things that people even today find encouraging, hilarious, or sad. But some people we remember because they — …
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“And I would’ve gotten away with it, too, if it wasn’t for you meddling kids.” Famous words spoken by people who pretended to be ghosts, only to get caught by a ragtag group of teenagers and a weird talking dog. As it often goes, though, sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. Many times, people around …
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Long-forgotten buried treasures are go-to material in fantasy and adventure movies. Occasionally real-life archeologists get to have their Indiana Jones moment as well, too. While most of the time they find relatively worthless everyday items, every now and then researchers strike literal gold. And when they do, what they find might just be worth millions. …
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Everybody likes big, flashy explosions — at least in the latest Hollywood action blockbuster. But when things start exploding in real life, it’s suddenly a lot less fun. The thing is, you’re never very far away from a potential explosion. We’re surrounded by things that could blow up in our faces without warning, from phones …
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