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Here's When You Told Us You Open Your Christmas Presents
If you celebrate Christmas—either for the sake of Jesus or just seasonal tradition—and you're lucky enough to receive a bounty of gifts from friends and family, it's time to make the yearly decision of...
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For Teddy Roosevelt's Son, Rebelling Meant Sneaking Christmas Trees Into the...
Theodore Roosevelt was tough. As a deputy sheriff on the Western Front, he chased a trio of boat thieves down a flooding river for eleven days. Once, when a gun-toting cowboy made fun of his glasses,...
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Whale Sharks May Mate In Captivity For The First Time
The modern world is paradise for voyeuristic humans. But as of now, there's at least one thing people haven't gotten to see: we have never watched whale sharks have sex.Now one aquarium is trying to...
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Defy Age Using a 3,600-Year-Old Face Cream Recipe With a Deadly Ingredient
Stanley Jacobs has been fascinated with ancient Egypt for as long as he can recall, but his obsession with one particular passage in one particular document started a little over 15 years ago. At an...
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The Death Mask of Gabrielle Danton in Vizille, France
This death mask is an artifact of one of the more dramatic moments in the life of George-Jacques Danton, the man without whom the French Revolution would not have happened, many scholars say....
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Heading to Iceland? Just Make Sure You Don't Die There
Inspired by the icy allure of the landscape, the rejuvenating hot springs, the majestic fjords, and the surreal dance of the northern lights, more and more tourists are heading over to Iceland. So many...
View ArticleWatch This Adorable Baby Macaque Roll a Snowball Down a Hill
It’s a winter tradition to build snowmen, go sledding, and get into massive snowball wars. Not just for humans, but for baby monkeys. At the first sight of snow, young Japanese macaques will start...
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Nuclear Shelter 10-Z in Brno, Czech Republic
This bomb shelter was originally built by the Germans around World War II. When the war was over and the Czech Republic (at the time Czechoslovakia) came under Soviet influence, the bunker was taken...
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Cuba Is Trying to Settle a $276 Million Cold War Debt With Rum
During the Cold War, when Cuba and what was then Czechoslovakia were part of the Communist bloc, the two shared business ties, which, today, linger on in the form of around $276 million in Cuban debt....
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Shark Point Reef in Pigeon Island, Sri Lanka
Snorkelling on the coral reefs at Pigeon Island National Park is absolutely fantastic wherever you are on the islands. But the main attraction is the island's many juvenile and adult blacktip reef...
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Princeton Cemetery in Princeton, New Jersey
Many luminaries are buried here at the stately Princeton Cemetery, from the only U.S. president to serve non-consecutive terms, Grover Cleveland (the 22nd and 24th president of the United States) to...
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Knocknakilla Stone Circle in Ireland
Knocknakilla Stone Circle is a small prehistoric complex consisting of a stone circle, two standing stones, and a cairn.Probably erected in the Middle or Late Bronze Age (1600 - 1800 BCE), they were...
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Found: A Photo That Might Prove This Famous Jewish Assassin Survived the...
When Herschel Grynszpan was 17, he killed a German diplomat, whose death was used as a pretense for Kristallnacht, the 1938 attacks on Jews in Germany that began the Holocaust. Grynszpan himself was...
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From Bordeaux to Brie, This Map Plots the Origin of Your Favorite French Food
So you’ve given into the foodie inside and are planning a culinary trip to the land of gastronomical heaven: France. But besides enjoying galettes in Brittany and sipping champagne in Champagne, how...
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The Mystery of Why Chattanooga Raised Its Downtown by a Level
Walk the streets of downtown Chattanooga, Tennessee, today and you’ll find little evidence that the town’s residents of yesteryear conducted business in first floors that are now below sidewalks and...
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Illicit Teen Snack Tycoon Got a Suspension, And, Eventually, a Scholarship
After molding himself into a lawless snack tycoon, a teenager in Turin, Italy is getting a grab bag of responses—ranging from a high school suspension to a college scholarship.According to the Local,...
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Why Scientists Sank a Telescope Into the Deepest Parts of the Ocean
In 2006, scientists working on the ANTARES neutrino telescope found themselves facing a problem: their brand-new instruments were observing way more light than they had expected. This was particularly...
View ArticleTake a Virtual Tour of One of the World's Largest Gingerbread Cities
In the center of the town of Bergen, Norway, the sweet smell of cloves, cinnamon, and allspice emanates from an old public swimming pool arena. Inside is a massive baked and sugar-coated city made out...
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How Pleather Saved the DuPont Company—And Some Cows, Too
A version of this post originally appeared on Tedium, a twice-weekly newsletter that hunts for the end of the long tail.As any cursory watch of an episode of Happy Days will tell you, we’re obsessed...
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Godzilla Head in 新宿区, Japan
Hard to believe, but Godzilla is now eligible for Social Security. He first emerged from his atom bomb disturbed slumber in 1954, and 29 films later—despite his senior status—he’s still “King of the...
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