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Brad Pitt injured his Achilles tendon while playing Achilles.
Brad Pitt injured his Achilles tendon while playing Achilles. Pitt described the injury during Troy as a tendon problem caused by wear from fighting on sand,…
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Roblox's founders first built a virtual physics lab.
Roblox's founders first built a virtual physics lab. David Baszucki and Erik Cassel created Interactive Physics, a two-dimensional educational simulation, in…
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Chinese alchemists during the Tang Dynasty spent centuries frantically searching for the elixir of life to grant their emperors physical immortality, completely ignoring the fact…
Chinese alchemists during the Tang Dynasty spent centuries frantically searching for the elixir of life to grant their emperors physical immortality,…
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Researchers are testing whether your tongue could identify you.
Researchers are testing whether your tongue could identify you. The tongue's surface has distinctive shapes, grooves, and textures that can be captured in…
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Paramount's mountain logo survived the mergers that built the studio.
Paramount's mountain logo survived the mergers that built the studio. Founder W. W. Hodkinson created the mountain-and-stars design for the distribution…
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The Golden Girls and And Just Like That… frame women in their fifties very differently.
The Golden Girls and And Just Like That… frame women in their fifties very differently. Rue McClanahan was 51 when she began playing Blanche; Sarah Jessica…
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Researchers caught 'hangry' in people's everyday diaries.
Researchers caught 'hangry' in people's everyday diaries. For 21 days, 64 participants reported hunger and mood several times a day. Greater hunger was…
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Goats rotate their eyes as they lower their heads to graze.
Goats rotate their eyes as they lower their heads to graze. Their horizontal pupils stay roughly aligned with the ground even while the head changes angle.…
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Quentin Tarantino's iconic crime thriller Pulp Fiction cost a mere eight million dollars to produce, with more than five million of that tiny budget going strictly toward paying the salaries of the star-studded cast.
Quentin Tarantino's iconic crime thriller Pulp Fiction cost a mere eight million dollars to produce, with more than five million of that tiny budget going…
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A Greenland shark's eyes can preserve centuries-old clues.
A Greenland shark's eyes can preserve centuries-old clues. Proteins at the center of its eye lens form early and are not continually replaced. Researchers…
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Some glassfrogs become more transparent when they sleep by hiding most of their red blood cells in their liver.
Some glassfrogs become more transparent when they sleep by hiding most of their red blood cells in their liver. Researchers found that resting frogs packed…
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Different supermarket brands can have the same owner.
Different supermarket brands can have the same owner. Large food groups own portfolios of brands that compete for attention on the same shelves. Each label…
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Fast food dollar menus are economically sustainable only because the actual cost of raising beef and corn is heavily subsidized by the government, meaning taxpayers are…
Fast food dollar menus are economically sustainable only because the actual cost of raising beef and corn is heavily subsidized by the government, meaning…
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A Texas school tried to save $300 a month on gas and became the site of a disaster in 1937.
A Texas school tried to save $300 a month on gas and became the site of a disaster in 1937. At New London, odorless gas from a residue line leaked beneath the…
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Australia aggressively leans into the terrifying myth of the drop bear, entirely to terrorize gullible foreign tourists who are already terrified of the continent's genuinely lethal wildlife.
Australia aggressively leans into the terrifying myth of the drop bear, entirely to terrorize gullible foreign tourists who are already terrified of the…
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Jewish mysticism features the legend of the Golem of Prague, a giant clay automaton supposedly brought to life in the 16th century by Rabbi Judah Loew to protect the local ghetto.
Jewish mysticism features the legend of the Golem of Prague, a giant clay automaton supposedly brought to life in the 16th century by Rabbi Judah Loew to…
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A wounded pigeon carried a warning about friendly fire in World War I.
A wounded pigeon carried a warning about friendly fire in World War I. Cher Ami is credited with delivering a message from the surrounded Lost Battalion…
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New York City utilizes a secretive, massive network of garbage trains to transport thousands of tons of rotting urban waste out of the five boroughs every single day, completely hidden from the oblivious public.
New York City utilizes a secretive, massive network of garbage trains to transport thousands of tons of rotting urban waste out of the five boroughs every…
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Perceiving rhyming statements as significantly more truthful and accurate than non-rhyming statements is a cognitive bias called the rhyme-as-reason effect.
Perceiving rhyming statements as significantly more truthful and accurate than non-rhyming statements is a cognitive bias called the rhyme-as-reason effect. A…
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The first website explained how to use the World Wide Web itself.
The first website explained how to use the World Wide Web itself. Tim Berners-Lee built it at CERN on a NeXT computer, whose warning label told people not to…
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An electric cab featured in an early drunk-driving case.
An electric cab featured in an early drunk-driving case. In 1897, London driver George Smith crashed his battery-powered taxi into a building and was fined 20…
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Thousands of angry citizens rioted in Leicester in 1864, destroying property and setting fires simply because a highly anticipated hot air balloon failed to launch.
Thousands of angry citizens rioted in Leicester in 1864, destroying property and setting fires simply because a highly anticipated hot air balloon failed to…
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Macy's wooden escalators hide a metal machine.
Macy's wooden escalators hide a metal machine. At the Herald Square store, historic escalators preserve wooden treads while chains and supporting metal…
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Keyboard commands for copying and pasting data were created by computer scientist Larry Tesler in 1973 while working on text editing software at the legendary Xerox PARC research facility.
Keyboard commands for copying and pasting data were created by computer scientist Larry Tesler in 1973 while working on text editing software at the legendary…
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