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28 Fascinating Facts About Time

Every person on Earth is living in the past, and more fascinating facts about time that are likely to hurt your brain.

Can you guess the facts based on these context-less images?

200 Random Facts Presented Without Context

Sharks are older than trees. A Double Stuf Oreo isn’t truly double-stuffed. Need we say more? Maybe, but we’re not going to.

'Francisco Pizarro Seizing the Inca of Peru' by John Everett Millais, 1846.

10 Pivotal Battles That Changed History

The fall of Constantinople isn’t the only battle that helped usher in a whole new era of history.

Leonardo Da Vinci : Exhibition At The Louvre museum

15 of the Most Expensive Things Ever Sold

From the priciest painting to the costliest kidney stone, these are the most expensive things ever sold.

These fun facts will spice up your Tax Day.

25 Fascinating Facts About Taxes

Why does Tax Day fall on April 15? How much time do we spend doing our taxes? And which world leader taxed beards? Read on for answers to those questions and other fun facts about taxes.

100 Fascinating Facts About the ‘Titanic’

The “unsinkable” Titanic wasn’t exactly marketed as unsinkable. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

No matter what era you're in, your cat should be king.

22 Pieces of Medieval Pet Advice

Pet advice from the Middle Ages included enough Latin incantations, unusual remedies, and bizarre superstitions to fill a Great Dane.

Claude Monet in his studio painting his Water Lilies series, 1923.

11 Surprising Stories Behind Amazing Artworks

The stories behind paintings and sculptures can be as interesting as the work itself; in fact, looking “behind the easel” can even shed light on our shared hist

Ajwad Creative (speech bubble), AndreyPopov (marker) // iStock via Getty Images Plus

13 Fascinating and Funny English Language Mistakes

From memorable misprints to fake words to eggcorns to phrases you might be mispronouncing, here are 13 English language mistakes you should know.

23 Far-Out Facts About UFOs, From Weird Sightings to Government Investigations

What *really* happened at Roswell? And what did Project Blue Book actually uncover? All that and more on this episode of The List Show.

90 Facts About the British Royal Family

From how they became the Mountbatten-Windsors to the last person in line to the throne, here's what you need to know about the British royal family.

A 2013 photo of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, showing the vacant frame from which Rembrandt's The Storm on the Sea of Galilee was stolen.

10 Puzzling Unsolved Crimes

Unsolved crimes are exhaustively covered in the media, but chances are, there’s at least one crime from history in this list—from unsolved art heists to mysterious crimes committed against (or by?) royals—that you’re not familiar with.

Operators at the switchboard of the Magneto Exchange of the National Telephone Company.

23 Obsolete (Or Nearly Obsolete) Jobs

Thanks to developments in science and technology, you can't add jobs like slubber doffers and night soil men to your resume these days.

Mark Twain, Mariah Carey, Truman Capote, and Elizabeth Taylor are responsible for some of history's most cutting disses.

The 16 Sickest Burns of All Time

“Every time I read ‘Pride and Prejudice’ I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.” Who said it?

An image of Earth from 1 million miles away snapped on July 6, 2015 by a camera on NASA's Deep Space Climate Observatory spacecraft.

100 Facts About Earth

How much do you know about the blue marble we call home? From how our planet formed to just how many species there are, here are 100 things you need to know about Earth.

A photo illustration of Violet Jessop in front of the Olympic (left) and Titanic (right); she survived the wrecks of both ships—and the Britannic.

11 Amazing Historical Coincidences

Sure, you can claim that there is no such thing as coincidence. But just wait ’til you hear these stories.

More than one donkey has been involved in a crime.

25 Animals Involved in Crimes

Whether they were guilty of having potty mouths or stealing shoes, these animals found themselves on the wrong side of the law.

The origin of the smoke detector might surprise you.

The Unusual Origin Stories of 9 Everyday Household Items

What was Kleenex originally used for? The product’s fascinating history has ties to Kotex and World War I.

In 2021, scientists identified what is believed to be the earliest known human victim of a shark attack.

100 Fascinating Facts We Learned in 2021

While many of us spent the bulk of 2021 stuck inside (again), we learned—for the second year in a row—that groundbreaking discoveries in archaeology, paleontology, astrology, and Skeet Ulrich’s filmography don’t stop just because of a pandemic.

21 Fascinating Facts About Vaccines

From facts about the COVID-19 vaccine to tidbits from vaccine history, here’s everything you ever wanted to know about immunization.

Not surprisingly, the Witness Protection Program is pretty mysterious.

23 Facts About the Witness Protection Program

What exactly is the Witness Protection Program, and how does it work? Here's what you need to know about the secretive program.

Old Hollywood wasn't necessarily as glamorous as we think it was.

13 Surprising Facts About Old Hollywood

Behind all that Old Hollywood glamour are plenty of feuds, some probably illegal child labor practices, and tons of asbestos.

Clockwise from left: Gilbert Stuart's unfinished portrait of George Washington on the $1 bill; Basilica de la Sagrada Familia; a page from Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales; Boldt Castle; Reactors 5 and 6 at Chernobyl; and the National Monument of Scotland.

13 Unbelievable Unfinished Projects

Famous presidential portraits, literary masterpieces, and iconic tourist destinations all make the list of amazing unfinished projects.

A poster for Howard Thurston's magic show in 1908.

14 Captivating Facts About Magic

Learn how Harry Houdini betrayed his namesake, why people were wary of the cups and balls illusion, and more facts from the history of magic.

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