We all like a good story about otherworldly mysteries, but we’re also too lazy to travel very far to find them. That must be why practically every town everywhere has at least one strange tale. It’s no different here in America. No matter which town you go to in any state, there will be a …
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There are a lot of unknowns when buying a house, and many nasty surprised can come along during the process. But you wouldn’t imagine getting an internet connection set up in a major U.S. city to be among them. Yet that’s exactly what happened to a couple in Seattle. They discovered that they can’t get …
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Every story about a mythological creature or monster has to come from somewhere. Unless some trickster completely made the whole thing up, somebody at some point must have seen something. It may not have been the creature they thought they saw, though. Maybe they were drunk or high, misinterpreted an animal they hadn’t seen before, …
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When you have a headache, you’ll probably reach for some ibuprofen or aspirin. But in the days long gone, we didn’t know how to make industrial medicines. So, sometimes people turned to imaginative cures for basic illnesses. Like ground-up Egyptian mummies. No, we’re not kidding. The embalmed corpses of Ancient Egyptians were all the rage …
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Have you ever felt desperately lonely? Well, don’t — there’s always someone there with you. That’s not a religious statement or anything. There are literally dozens of creatures who are with you at all hours of the day, wherever you go. Meet Demodex folliculorum, otherwise known as the skin mite. It’s a microscopic mite that …
Did you read The History of Nuclear Power in Fun Facts: Part One? Because this is part two. A tea kettle is a good analogy for nuclear power. By the end of the 1950’s, 300 atomic bombs had been exploded in tests by multiple countries By the 1970’s, the buzz of nuclear energy fades as …
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Fossil fuels are killing us, when it comes to our pocketbooks especially. But is nuclear power the answer? Here’s the history, so you tell me. 10% of the world’s electricity comes from nuclear power. The leading country being France, getting 70% of their power from nuclear. Radioactive waste is a huge problem resulting from nuclear …
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Giggle all you want, but semen is an essential part of life on Earth. Without it, none of us would be — barring anyone or anything born from some weird lab experiment. But there’s more to semen than making babies. Over the years, people how found a whole bunch of inventive uses for semen, both …
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Does your lifestyle revolve around unusual vacations? Many enjoy spending their annual time away from work in unconventional ways. Some are devotees of haunted houses and spooky tour packages. Others prefer to take part in scientific research, do driving tours of celebrities’ homes, or try their hand at dogsledding. Here are a few odd vacation …
The word “the” is the single most common word in the English sentence. In every body of text written in English, roughly 5% of the words will be “the.” So, it’s safe to say it’s a very common word. And now it’s a trademark of Ohio State University (OSU). Although the university doesn’t exactly own …
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