No one knows what the first prank ever played on someone else was, but it probably had something to do with one caveman hiding a Mastodon steak from his buddy. These days pranks are a lot more elaborate and, sometimes, far more dangerous. 10. YouTuber Shot Prank videos have long been a popular subgenre of…
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For years it’s been pretty standard to use wood or bricks, maybe some siding and shingles, if you want to build a house. That’s far from all you can use, though. Turns out there can be quite a lot more diversity in making houses than you’d at first believe. 10. Coffee Every day Americans take…
Mankind has been fascinated by the idea of an afterlife for thousands of years. The mystery of what awaits beyond this life is one none of us can ever have a definitive answer to. But there’s lots of speculation, and even a few sightings of things that may have come from beyond. Unfortunately for those…
Back in the 1940s there were three networks on American TV: ABC, NBC, and CBS. If you even had a TV back then, which most households did not, you were likely tuning in to watch some sports or maybe Ed Sullivan. There was not a ton of choice and what did exist was likely offering…
In the year 2018 there were over 660,000 restaurants in the United States alone. People love going out to eat. The problem is, there are only so many different ways you can repackage the same kinds of food. When you think about it, most restaurants fall into a handful of categories. You have burger joints,…
To most people a black market is an illicit way of selling or trading something that may or may not be legal, is scarce or hard to come by. During prohibition there was a massive black market for alcohol, for instance. Any place in which they criminalize drugs is going to have a black market…
The world is full of mysterious things. If you had to Google right now you’ll find countless sites where people detail with utter sincerity their encounters with aliens, Bigfoot, and ghosts. Are any of those things real? Are those people lying? Or did they honestly see something that the rest of us just haven’t experienced…
The world is full of mysterious things. If you had to Google right now you’ll find countless sites where people detail with utter sincerity their encounters with aliens, Bigfoot, and ghosts. Are any of those things real? Are those people lying? Or did they honestly see something that the rest of us just haven’t experienced…
Natural disasters are a part of life, and we have to adjust and adapt to them as best we can. But what few people have ever been able to prepare for is a food-based disaster. And not the kind you might think, like a famine or a bad case of food poisoning. Turns out there…
No matter what kind of climates, landscape, scenery, or conditions you enjoy there is probably a place somewhere on Earth that will meet your needs, environmentally speaking. And while one Canadian forest may not look too much different from another, and one chunk of desert in Africa may not look too much different from another,…
Someone once said that life doesn’t come with an instruction book. It’s a learning process and, as a species, we have had a few bumps in the road along the way. The first person who ever met a tiger may have thought ‘what a nice looking kitty’ before learning the error of their ways. Likewise,…
The modern Chinese government is not exactly known for its tolerance. They seek to keep a pretty solid grip on what their citizens are allowed to see, hear, and do and that has led to a number of unusual things being banned over the years. 10. Big Bang Theory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCHGDRHZ4eU Upon hearing that The Big…
The world is full of mysterious things. If you had to Google right now you’ll find countless sites where people detail with utter sincerity their encounters with aliens, Bigfoot, and ghosts. Are any of those things real? Are those people lying? Or did they honestly see something that the rest of us just haven’t experienced…
The myths of the ancient world still inspire us today in literature and in pop culture. We tend to take it at face value that what history calls myth is nothing more than that. While there are those who firmly believe that every myth has a basis in reality, there’s little done to investigate that…
There’s a scene in the movie Jurassic World in which we discover that Vincent D’Onofrio’s villainous character has designs on getting his hands on some raptors so that the fearsome creatures can be used as weapons in warfare. It sounds like an utterly preposterous idea in real life, because why would you unleash a ravenous…
There’s a popular adage that 50% of marriages end in divorce. That statistic may have originated sometime in the 1980s. As of 2019, it’s actually about 39% of US marriages that end in divorce. Not a stellar number by any means, but not nearly as bad as half, either. From divorce’s beginnings way back in ancient history…
Europe is made up of around 50 sovereign countries at the moment. It covers nearly 4 million square miles and European society has mostly shaped the modern world thanks to its historical influence over every other region on the planet in the past 500 years or more. To put it bluntly, Europeans have had their fingers…
The average human lifespan is about 79 years these days. On the other hand, if you are a rat, you’ve got about two fun-filled years out in the wild. And if you’re a housefly? Just shy of a month. The Earth has grown to accommodate some crazy lifespans, from insects that have just a few…
If there’s one thing mankind has mastered during its history it’s punishing those who break the rules. In every culture and every generation we’ve seen some of the most creative, and oftentimes cruel, methods of correcting behavior. Some punishments have graduated to levels of almost unbelievably complicated, vicious, and surreal weirdness. We covered 10 of…
Natural disasters are a part of life, and we have to adjust and adapt to them as best we can. But what few people have ever been able to prepare for is a food-based disaster. And not the kind you might think, like a famine or a bad case of food poisoning. Turns out there…
It’s a cliche at this point that politicians are not necessarily trustworthy. You can expect that on a long enough timeline you’re going to hear a story on the news about a politician caught in a lie, caught stealing something, or caught doing some other nefarious and otherwise underhanded deed. The breadth of the crimes…
The myths of the ancient world still inspire us today in literature and in pop culture. We tend to take it at face value that what history calls myth is nothing more than that. While there are those who firmly believe that every myth has a basis in reality, there’s little done to investigate that…
Some people say that when life gives you lemons you can make lemonade. And if life gives you a handful of metal, maybe a barrel or two, some flammable chemicals, and a few small objects that you can use as projectiles then you can make an entire battlefield’s worth of improvised weapons if you’re dedicated…
If there’s one thing mankind has mastered during its history it’s punishing those who break the rules. In every culture and every generation we’ve seen some of the most creative, and oftentimes cruel, methods of correcting behavior. Some punishments have graduated to levels of almost unbelievably complicated, vicious, and surreal weirdness. We covered 10 of…