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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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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