Every age probably thinks of itself as pretty enlightened. Today, we all seem to be…
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Sometimes we are at a loss for where a top 10 list should go and that means we toss it here. Sure, some lists defy categorization, but Miscellaneous is a category, right?
Short of going back in time, the best way most of us have to get…
Silicon Valley centillionaires and billionaires, the new feudal lords, are apparently big time preppers. It’s…
Being a confidence man takes a lot of brass, as they say. To be able…
The Second World War was easily the most devastating war in history. Some official records…
From advanced deep-sea expeditions to your schlubby neighbor armed with only a metal detector he…
We usually tend to focus on only the dark and gruesome parts of history, though…
Military history shows us that, no matter where you’re from, strict discipline, training and dedication…
People online love exposing secret rooms. Every so often, a new tale goes viral, featuring someone discovering…
Istanbul, Turkey, is sometimes known as the City of Cats and estimates of how many…
What’s in a name? It’s generally one of the first things we learn about a…
A cognitive bias is essentially just a mistake in how you process information. It causes…
Throughout the history of slavery, revolts have usually been brutality crushed in order to set…
April Fool’s Day has been observed in one form or another for hundreds of years.…
Birds do it, bees do it, and even kleptogenic salamanders do it. No, it’s not…
If you ever watch life hack videos on YouTube, you know that people are constantly…
You know you’re in for a treat when you hear a much older person start…
Plastic surgery has existed in one form or another for hundreds of years. Of course,…
Urban heat islands (UHI) are areas with significantly higher temperatures than the regions surrounding them. The…
America has often been described as a litigious country and there’s no shortage of examples…
Abraham Lincoln developed a reputation for being a politician with integrity, honor, and ethics, which…
In the past, we have traveled from country to country and explored some of the…
Most of us are aware of the work of Oskar Schindler thanks to the film…
When George Romero made Night of the Living Dead back in 1968, he set into…