The Myth Of NASA’s Spendy Space Pens
An urban legend says that NASA spent millions developing a pen for its astronauts, while the Soviet Union just gave ...
Read moreAn urban legend says that NASA spent millions developing a pen for its astronauts, while the Soviet Union just gave ...
Read moreThe definition of literature is a tricky one, and some argue that today, things like graphic novels, movies, musicals, and ...
Read moreWith the death of Margaret Thatcher came a bizarre claim that she was responsible for the development of one of ...
Read moreIsaac Newton, as the warden of the Royal Mint, led the British government in cracking down on counterfeiters. Among his ...
Read moreDomino's Pizza had one of the most bizarre mascots of the 1980s: the Noid. A demented little gremlin in a ...
Read moreIn studies that look at the impact of age gaps in relationships, it's been found that not only does the ...
Read moreSpring is getting shorter---by 30--60 seconds every year---and summer's getting that extra bit of time. Summer is already the longest ...
Read moreMailuu-Suu, Kyrgyzstan, is a town that was left horribly polluted by uranium mining during the Cold War. Residents live and ...
Read moreThe first mention of anything like modern-day passports comes from a Bible verse---Nehemiah 2:7-9. The Mongols issued one of the ...
Read moreIn the US alone, over 42 million women have been assaulted and/or stalked by a husband or boyfriend at some ...
Read moreA Belgian statistician invented the BMI scale in 1832, and he didn't stop there. A proponent of “social physics,” Adolphe ...
Read moreA series of studies that have looked at the correlation between height and death have come across some startling statistics. ...
Read moreWhen it comes to nutritional content and preparation, food comes in three different categories. Minimally processed foods---like fruits and veggies---have ...
Read moreAs disgusting and un-hygienic as much of history has been, there's one thing that many cultures have had in common---the ...
Read moreBasil Valentine was supposedly a Benedictine monk born in 1394. He wrote a number of works on the medical properties ...
Read moreFor something that's mostly overlooked until you make toast, butter has a rather ancient history. Much of it is the ...
Read moreWhile we're not sure why auroras have so many different shapes, we do know what causes the different colors. When ...
Read moreIn defiance of Church dogma, Galileo Galilei advanced our view of the universe with his heliocentric model of the solar ...
Read moreWhen John Murray Spear started receiving messages from the spirit world, some of them were from a community called “The ...
Read moreWhen studies looked at the last words of death row inmates, they found that many of them were going into ...
Read moreFor years, drug cartels have terrorized Mexico with extortion, kidnappings, and murders. On September 26, 2014, it reached a flash ...
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