We’re told that we need to take our vitamins, which are the micronutrients that are required by the body to complete many essential functions. They come from the food we ...
Rigor in Latin means “stiffness,” and mortis means “of death.” But why does the body of a person or an animal get stiff after death, and what causes it? Interestingly, ...
The poor, poor calorie, it gets a bad rap everywhere. They get ridiculed constantly, and everyone is trying to get rid of them. Maybe if they were better understood, things ...
Who knew that something that sits on the top of our head could be one of the most amazing pieces of biological engineering. Hair can be twisted, tied, and formed ...
In this week’s facts edition: A Lot of Air, Broken Hearts Do Exist, Where It’s Not Illegal to be in Organized Crime, Two Disappointing Mountains, and Walmart’s Number One Selling ...
The funny bone is usually not all that funny when you smack it just right, and it sends shots of pain through your arm. You’ve probably recoiled after doing so, ...
The weekly collection of random and fun facts. In this week’s edition: A Norwegian Butter Crisis, Two Boring Towns, The Strong Pinky Finger, Origin of the Ten-Gallon Hat, and The ...
The weekly collection of random and sometimes useless fun facts. In this week’s edition: An Unknown Boston Concert Hall, UK Speeding Cyclists, The Dedicated Honeybee, An Overweight World, and Wilson ...
The weekly collection of useless and fun facts. In this week’s edition: Tornadoes, Vitamins, Flushing Toilets, The First Vending Machine, and Nigerian Sesame Street. Justin1569/Wikimedia There is a weather phenomenon ...
The weekly collection of useless and fun facts. In this week’s edition: Lake Superior, NYC Water, Voynich Manuscript, the NFL, and Coconut Water. There is enough water in Lake Superior ...
We’ve all spent countless hours on that incessant machine, whiling away our time and spending most of it watching the seconds tick past tirelessly slow. But where did the term ...
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