A tasty treat is just what you need to wrap up a perfect meal. But what people consider a treat can be wildly different from place to place. After all, different folks have different tastes in food, so it makes sense that they’d like different desserts too. Some of them might seem strange to people …
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Nature is often absolutely terrifying, with any number of animals out there that are perfectly capable of killing people. Some might poison you, others can rip your face off, while other can crush you with sheer mass and not even notice. But things used to be worse. Much, much worse. Many animals that no longer …
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We’ve come far in terms of science. While we still have much to learn, we understand universe in a way our ancestors couldn’t even imagine. That’s why they had to come up with their own explanations for how such things as nature, disease, and so forth work. Sometimes they made surprisingly accurate assumptions, but more …
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We all need sleep, but that’s (mostly) all we know. It helps us keep a clear head, feel restored and when we aren’t getting enough, it can suck. Cool Down is Needed There is nothing better than sleeping in a cold room if you ask me. Some people don’t see it that way though. They …
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We like to think of space as a cold, empty void. And it is, for the most part, but between the interstellar stretches of nothing there are planets, stars, nebulas… You know, space stuff. Some of these deep space objects are absolutely terrifying from our terrestrial perspectives. Other times, though, they’re just plain weird. Here …
Imagine you’re some kind of a small animal, minding your own business. But oh no, suddenly a predator is attacking you! What’re you going to do? Will you run away, or will you try to attack the beast? Or will you fart your intestines out of your body? No, that’s not something we made up. …
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Arranging a funeral is one of those things that’s never fun. It’s a difficult and sensitive event to begin with — you don’t want anything to go wrong while it’s happening. But, of course, sometimes things do go wrong. And sometimes, they go really, really wrong. Here are five funerals that turned into absolute nightmares. …
Dressing in the latest fashions can make you look fabulous — or completely ridiculous. As time goes on and tastes change, the likelihood of the latter keeps increasing exponentially. Of course, there are some immortal, classic looks. But for each of those, we’ve had a hundred fashion trends so mindbogglingly bizarre that you have to …
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Wherever you go in the world, you’ll find people hailed at heroes for the selfless, valiant deeds they’ve done. But animals, too, can rise up to heroics on the occasion. It’s not always critters that have been trained to do so, either. Even wild animals sometimes help people in fantastic ways, for reasons we can’t …
Here’s a little-known fun fact for you. Every year since 1976, the Lake Superior State University (LSSU) has officially banned 10 words from the English language. Alright, that was hyperbole. But the LSSU does publish an annual list of words it considers woefully, misused, overused, or just plain useless. It seems that each year’s list …
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