Organized crime has become a very hard to understand facet of the modern world. Arguably,…
Browsing: Misc
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?
Sumerian is the oldest written language, dating back to 3100 BCE. Language itself is believed…
Human history is full of examples of people claiming to have a link to the…
Roughly 200,000 years ago, Neanderthals came into existence across Eurasia. They were named after the…
Urban legends, at least as far as that term has been used to describe them,…
You may have noticed this list makes no sense: color isn’t color til you see…
Arm wrestling of one kind or another has been around since Ancient Egypt. This, despite…
Ireland is world renowned for many things, including lush green meadows, lively traditional music, and…
Right now, the populations of many nations have levels of trust in their governments that…
Challenge courses are a relatively new phenomenon in the world but have exploded in recent…
The human mind likes to make sense of things. We look for patterns and order…
Missing persons statistics are harrowing. Upwards of 600,000 people per year go missing in America…
The Washington Post reported in 2015 that while the United States has 5% of the…
Google Maps has changed the way we see the world by literally letting us see…
What does the average person know about Babylon? Probably they’ve heard the phrase “whore of…
War. What is it good for? Absolutely nothing. And to drive that point home with…
Local mores and political currents have long created controversy over the subjects taught in public…
History has presented us with countless mysteries, some of which plague us to this day.…
The modern world has made life pretty easy for most of us. When’s the last…
Status symbols are some of the hardest to understand aspects of any culture or society.…
Since 1958, NASA has operated as one of the world’s leading space agencies. For over…
Around 71% of the Earth is covered by the oceans. That works out to around…
History is like science in many ways. It seeks to explain the truth, but must be…
Few things are more embarrassing than realizing you don’t know the name of a coworker…