What Actually was Greek Fire?

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What is Radon, Anyway?

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The Most Fiendish of All Spy Gadgets

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How Did the Ancient Romans Make Concrete So Much Better Than Ours?

Was That ‘Nuclear Town’ in Kingdom of the Crystal Skull a Real Thing

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Well This Probably Won’t Explode

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How Do British Schools Teach About the British Empire?

How Do They Actually Measure the Heat of Hot Peppers?

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The Bizarre Phenomenon of Mummy Unwrapping Parties

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Spreading Disease the Friendly Way

From Today I Found Out. The Friendship Paradox, first proposed by sociologist Scott L. Feld, demonstrates that your friends, on average, will not only have more friends than you, but, again on average, also be wealthier, more popular, and happier than you. This also has many other implications as well, and has also inspired research…

Forgotten Titans of History- The Edison of Ancient Greece

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The Weirdest Olympic Sport

From Today I Found Out. From 1912 to 1948, art was an official Olympic event. Submissions had to be in the categories of architecture, literature, music, painting, or sculpture, and must in all cases be inspired by sports. The art works submitted also had to be original works never before seen publicly before being submitted…

Afloat in the Big Blue Aboard a Boat Designed to Explode

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The Sniper

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The Strange and Frightening Phenomenon of Dust Explosions

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Who Invented Buffalo Wings?

From Today I Found Out. Buffalo wings were invented sometime around the 1960s by either John Young or Frank and Teressa Bellissimo in Buffalo, New York. The spreading of this tasty appetizer was relatively slow until Football stepped in. What happened? From 1990-1993, the Buffalo Bills made it to the Super Bowl four consecutive seasons.…

The Fascinating Story of Why the Geosynchronous Region Around Earth is Called the “Clark Orbit”

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The Most Dangerous Thing You Do

From Today I Found Out. As of November 2013, the Washington Post Database of U.S. Service-Member Casualties reports that the number of American soldiers dying in war is 1,343,812. On the other hand, the number of American citizens who died in automobile accidents between 1899 and 2012 is 3,572,812, once again showing that the most…

Deciding Who is Gets to Be Male Via a Swordfight

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Did a Nuclear-Powered Manhole Cover Really Reach Outer Space Before Sputnik

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England is Really Small You Guys…

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What Does the “Octane Rating” of Fuel Actually Mean

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Dat Brain

From Today I Found Out. Sapiosexual is the scientific name for a person who is sexually attracted to people’s intelligence The first part of the word comes from the Latin “sapiens”, meaning “wise”.

The Condition That Makes You Smell Like Rotten Fish

From Today I Found Out. Trimethylaminuria (TMAU) is a rare genetic disorder that makes the people who suffer from it smell like rotten fish owing to their bodies’ inability to convert trimethylamine to trimethylamine oxide. The trimethylamine ends up being excreted through the person’s pores, breath, and urine making them smell strongly of fish.

The Funniest Way to Die

From Today I Found Out. The first man (second person overall after Annie Taylor) to ever go over Niagara Falls in a barrel and survive, Bobby Leach, 15 years later died as a result of the staple of comedy gags- slipping on either an orange peel or a banana peel (different news reports from the…

The True Story of the Amistad

960 Attempts to Get a Driver’s License

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The Weirdest Substance Known to Science

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The Channel We All Need Most

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Forgotten Sidekicks: The Watson Who Co-Created the Phone & Helped Make the U.S. a Naval Superpower

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The Second Thing Neil Armstrong Said on the Moon

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That Time the U.S. Planned to Nuke the Moon

From Today I Found Out. The United States once planned on nuking the Moon. The project was labeled “A Study of Lunar Research Flights” or “Project A119” and was developed by the U.S. Air Force in the late 1950s. It was felt that this would be a relatively easy thing to do and would also…

The Nazi Experiments Whose Results Are Still Used By Medical Scientists Today

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Why Lightsaber Battles Sucked in the Original Star Wars

From Today I Found Out. If you’re wondering why early lightsaber battles were quite slow and the characters always kept two hands on the weapon, this is because Lucas was adamant that the lightsabers were supposed to be extremely heavy. Over time, he gradually lessened his stance on this to allow for more elaborate and…

How to Save Two Million Trees Per Year By Simply Not Being Stubborn Dumbasses

From Today I Found Out. Approximately 10 million trees per year are cut down to make the world’s supply of toilet paper. While the number can vary quite a bit from tree to tree and with different kinds of toilet paper, a very rough ballpark figure is that each tree produces approximately 1,000-2,000 rolls of…

The Last Sword Duel… in 1967

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Squirting Blood from Your Eyeballs

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Pregnant for 61 Years Straight!

From Today I Found Out. Huang Yijun of China became pregnant, but later found out that she had an ectopic pregnancy, meaning the egg had not attached in the uterus, resulting in an exceptionally rare abdominal pregnancy. While babies that attach in such a way (often to things like the woman’s liver, bowels, diaphragm, etc.)…

The Drunken Airplanes- The Bizarre World of Asymmetric Aircraft

How a Tiny Hole Caused Dozens of Air Disasters

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What is Up with the Richard Gere / Rodent Up His Yin-Yang Story?

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What’s the Difference Between a Tidal Wave and a Tsunami?

How was the Italian Mafia Established in the U.S.?

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What is Up with the Bizarre Richter Scale?

That Time Ben Franklin and John Adams Slept Together and the Hilarity That Ensued

That Time the US Military Spent $60 Billion On Something and 1 Day After Completing It Threw It Away

Hiroshima in a Gun

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How was the German Army so Successful at the Start of WWII Against Vastly Superior Numbers?

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The Cold War’s Most Pathetically Hilarious Air Battle

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But Why Carat and Karat?

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A Wingtip and a Prayer: the Insane Way British Pilots Defeated Germany’s Secret Weapon

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What is it Actually Like to Be an Amish Person?

The Forgotten Harrowing, Near Disaster Japanese Surrender Flight That Ended WWII

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“The Thing”- the Revolutionary Soviet Spy Gadget That Baffled the West

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Did the Ancient Egyptians Actually Walk Like…Well, Egyptians

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Alexander Graham Bell’s Forgotten Greatest Invention

Why Do Jets Have Swept Back Wings?

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Swept Under the Rug: The Truth About the Japanese Holocaust

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WWII’s Two Most Absurd ‘Secret Weapons’

The Most Impressive Hat Trick in Aerospace History