What do you know about comets? Here are some fun facts about these objects flying around the Earth. Comets appear in the sky like streaks because they’re actively melting. The core of a comet is called the comet nucleus and can be several kilometers wide, like the size of a small town. Comets are composed …
Archeologists pry open the long-forgotten tomb of an Egyptian Pharaoh, quickly distributing its contents and the Pharaoh’s mummy to museums around the world. Shortly thereafter, however, the intruders start dropping dead one by one from a mysterious disease. The Pharaoh’s curse has struck! It sounds like the plot of a B-class horror movie, but this …
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Everybody loves a good story of animals doing something odd, funny, or impressive. We should know — we have a whole Cool Animals category dedicated to them. Occasionally, though, we learn about animal stories that never become our regular posts. They might be just a bit too short, or perhaps there’s just something infinitely weirder …
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What do you know about the red planet? Do you know that no human has ever stepped foot on the planet Mars? Hellas Planitia is a huge crater on Mars located on the Red Planet’s southern hemisphere. It’s over 3.7 miles deep and 1.242 miles across. One of the most distinctive features of Mars is …
Do you know all of these Titanic facts? There are some that may surprise you, like do you know how many people went into the first lifeboat? John Jacob Astor IV was the wealthiest man onboard with an estimated worth of $85 million dollars at the time, worth more than $2 billion today. This vessel …
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Ah, Bigfoot. What would America’s forests be without stories about the mysterious ape man lurking in the trees. Bigfoot has to make an appearance every now and then, however, to keep the legend going. This time, he decided to pop up in Michigan. A father-and-son duo was out on a fishing trip near the city …
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Everybody loses something sometimes. That said, there are important things that you really should keep in their places. We’re talking about things like important documents, house keys, your phone… Oh, and your nukes. Yet, the world’s militaries lose their nuclear weapons shockingly often. For instance, the U.S. military (which keeps excellent tabs on its nukes, …
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Would you do anything for love? Would you do that? By “that,” we mean stalk the funerals of complete strangers in hopes of catching the hunky undertaker’s eye. That’s what Daniela Signor did. After the Brazilian woman saw Apollo Scariot, the funeral director of a local funeral home, she knew she had to make him …
If there are any other weird real life obsessions, let’s hear them! Share them in the comments so we can all know! I am still obsessed with Lego. Everything about it. How the bricks are made….history…user groups…business model…everything. Me? A Norwegian Idol finalist from 2003. I’m not Norwegian. I don’t speak Norwegian. I’ve never been …
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Recycling can be an easy and effective way to help the environment, but people tend to need a bit of incentive to start recycling. To this end, many places have some kind of return-and-earn scheme for drink cans and bottles. The compensation usually isn’t much — a few cents per can — but it’s something. …
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