15 Things You Might Not Know About Colorado
These great facts about Colorado will have you feeling a mile high!
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Having fun is easy, but making a great impression on new pals can be even easier with these delightfully simple lifehacks.
They look cute and cuddly, but koalas are straight-up miracles of evolution. Here are a few surprising things you might not have known about koalas.
Most of the time, when an American TV show is sold to other language markets, the opening theme song stays as is. But sometimes, especially if the theme song contains crucial background details, the song will be translated and re-recorded.
When animals discover unfamiliar objects in their vicinity, the results can be hilarious—or kind of scary.
Here’s how to lifehack past the troublesome bits, so you can concentrate on the cute.
Some apples names are really just a desperate cry of “look how yummy I am!” Here are 18 varieties that, frankly, don’t care what you think.
While most pirates were men, there were women in these ranks of raiders who were just as merciless, notorious, and feared.
Fossils rock. So much so, in fact, that paleontologists have named a whole menagerie of prehistoric critters after their favorite musicians. Here’s a rundown of some of the fantastic prehistoric species named in honor of rock stars.
Based on his experiences as a POW during the Allied bombing of Dresden in 1945, 'Slaughterhouse-Five' propelled author Kurt Vonnegut, who had been largely ignored and classified as a sci-fi paperback writer, to fame and literary acclaim.
Any writer knows that unsolicited advice about their work is easy to come by, but finding inspiration on those days when the words just won’t come is a lot tougher. Here, 15 of history’s most famous names give you the positive words you need to get back t
When something is named after a person or a place or a company, we call that name an eponym. Eponyms are everywhere—in science, medicine, the arts. This list from our friends at Vocabulary.com focuses on words that are historically eponyms but are so comm
On a cart in Anna Dhody’s office sits a small, innocuous box marked “caramel Danish rolls.” Open it up, though, and you won’t find a pastry; instead, there’s a human skull nestled inside. Nearby, there’s another cardboard box—this one labeled “brain slice
Anyone can find the Golden Gate Bridge or Alcatraz, but if you’re willing to embrace the unknown, you’ll find that San Francisco is full of hidden gems.
No matter which popular author you disdain, you're bound to find yourself in good company: There's no love lost between these writers.
Today the New York Times has a nice piece about our YouTube channel. Here are some other NYT first mentions worth mentioning.
Happy Labor Day!
These parks might not be the happiest places on earth, they just might be some of the weirdest.
Did you know that Lancaster, Pennsyvlania, was America's capital city for exactly one day: September 27, 1777? Read on for more mind-blowing facts.