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Kissing has always been a way of showing love and affection and symbolizes a special…
Everyone knows that the Southern United States invented corn fritters, the Dukes of Hazzard, and…
Scientists like Einstein or Newton are well-known, and for good reason, but there are many…
During the Great Government Shutdown of 2013, NASA was offline and unable to continue whatever…
During the witch hunt trials that swept across Europe and North America in the early…
When people hear about inventors who lost their lives because of their own inventions, certain…
Throughout your life, you’ll learn that things just don’t always go exactly as you had…
When we hear the word “inventions”, the first thing that comes up into our minds…
Sir Isaac Newton is frequently cited as one of the smartest and most influential people…
Adverts are a fact of life and, as people grow more and more accustomed to…
Far from being a mere disgusting dirt-dweller or fish bait, earthworms come in handy for…
Everything is becoming increasingly democratized, especially technology. The opportunity exists for every citizen with disposable…
Oceans are such vast and often overwhelming subjects. Because of their sheer scope in size,…
There are certain animal-related facts that just about everybody knows by heart. Or at least, they think they do. Many widely-known facts about animals are just plain wrong. Luckily, we’re here to set the record straight.
It’s always a bad day whenever an animal dies before their time. When they die at the hands of a human, we’re naturally outraged. But when death is the result of a freak accident, we’re just plain depressed. And now you get to be depressed too, as we visit ten stories of animals who suffered the most unfortunate twist of fate imaginable.
Goldfish are the earliest fish to be domesticated by humans, approximately 1700 years ago in…
Some animals are so popular and ubiquitous that it’s just assumed they’ve been part of our lives forever. However, it turns out some of these creatures were in hiding longer than we think, and our knowledge of them is restricted to the past 200 years or less. Who knows what else is out there?
Some of the most common characteristics of a bear include a large body, stocky legs,…
Dogs can’t eat candy, but that doesn’t mean they can’t go trick-or-treating! Actually no, wait. We’re wrong. They can’t trick or treat. They’re DOGS. But this hasn’t stopped a bunch of companies from designing elaborate costumes for your pooch to contemplate murder in. And yes, several of them are sexy. It IS Halloween, after all.
Most species have a shelf life and, once that expires, so does the animal. Others, however, take the Twinkie approach to life, in that they never, ever go away. Like the great-great grandmother who’s survived dozens of family members over the years, here are ten species that clearly intend to hang around until the planet’s inevitable heat death.
From the Paleolithic paintings of the Chauvet Cave to Tolkien’s Shadowfax, horses have played a…
When many people think of diets, the first thing they think of is losing weight.…
For most, ants are just harmless insects (unless you find a red one; then run away to another country IMMEDIATELY.) We know they can lift extremely heavy stuff but, other than that, they’re pretty insignificant, right? WRONG. Ants are basically little humans in buggy form, who can do just about anything we can, for better or for worse.