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Typing mechanics dictate that the spacebar is the single most pressed key on any standard computer keyboard, statistically accounting for roughly eighteen percent of all keystrokes made by the average user.
Typing mechanics dictate that the spacebar is the single most pressed key on any standard computer keyboard, statistically accounting for roughly eighteen…
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Fingernails on your dominant hand grow noticeably faster than the ones on your non-dominant hand simply because increased daily usage stimulates greater blood flow and nutrient delivery to those specific fingertips.
Fingernails on your dominant hand grow noticeably faster than the ones on your non-dominant hand simply because increased daily usage stimulates greater blood…
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Jawed Karim uploaded the very first video to YouTube on April 23, 2005, an incredibly mundane eighteen-second clip titled 'Me at the zoo' featuring him standing in front of some…
Jawed Karim uploaded the very first video to YouTube on April 23, 2005, an incredibly mundane eighteen-second clip titled 'Me at the zoo' featuring him…
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Betty White was literally born before the invention of commercially sliced bread, meaning the beloved television icon spent the first six years of her life in a primitive, dark…
Betty White was literally born before the invention of commercially sliced bread, meaning the beloved television icon spent the first six years of her life in…
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Benjamin Franklin firmly believed in the intense medical benefits of what he called an air bath, which was really just his fancy intellectual excuse for sitting completely naked in front of his open windows.
Benjamin Franklin firmly believed in the intense medical benefits of what he called an air bath, which was really just his fancy intellectual excuse for…
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Borders bookstores totally dominated the retail literature market in the 1990s but made the incredibly fatal economic decision in 2001 to completely outsource their entire online…
Borders bookstores totally dominated the retail literature market in the 1990s but made the incredibly fatal economic decision in 2001 to completely outsource…
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Director William Friedkin completely cut the infamous spider-walk sequence from the original 1973 theatrical release of The Exorcist, deeming it too technically flawed because…
Director William Friedkin completely cut the infamous spider-walk sequence from the original 1973 theatrical release of The Exorcist, deeming it too…
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Jenga was created by Leslie Scott, a British game designer who grew up in East Africa and based it on a simple block-stacking game her family played with standard wooden building blocks.
Jenga was created by Leslie Scott, a British game designer who grew up in East Africa and based it on a simple block-stacking game her family played with…
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Catholic mystics have long venerated the Shroud of Turin as the authentic burial cloth of Jesus Christ, claiming the faint image of a bearded man miraculously scorched into the…
Catholic mystics have long venerated the Shroud of Turin as the authentic burial cloth of Jesus Christ, claiming the faint image of a bearded man miraculously…
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Massive diesel freight trains are not actually powered by turning their wheels with diesel engines like an oversized pickup truck on the highway; instead, the gigantic diesel…
Massive diesel freight trains are not actually powered by turning their wheels with diesel engines like an oversized pickup truck on the highway; instead, the…
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Dennis Ritchie developed the legendary C programming language at Bell Labs in 1972, and he named it 'C' for the incredibly unimaginative reason that it was directly based on an…
Dennis Ritchie developed the legendary C programming language at Bell Labs in 1972, and he named it 'C' for the incredibly unimaginative reason that it was…
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Two completely clean and unoxidized pieces of the same metal will permanently fuse together if they touch in the vacuum of space.
Two completely clean and unoxidized pieces of the same metal will permanently fuse together if they touch in the vacuum of space. This phenomenon, known as…
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Hong Xiuquan failed his imperial civil service examinations so many times in nineteenth-century China that he had a nervous breakdown and hallucinated that he was the younger brother of Jesus Christ.
Hong Xiuquan failed his imperial civil service examinations so many times in nineteenth-century China that he had a nervous breakdown and hallucinated that he…
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Cashiers at a Marsh supermarket in Ohio scanned the world's very first universal product code in 1974, testing the groundbreaking laser technology on a perfectly ordinary ten-pack of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit chewing gum.
Cashiers at a Marsh supermarket in Ohio scanned the world's very first universal product code in 1974, testing the groundbreaking laser technology on a…
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Sir William Cubitt invented the original treadmill in 1818 not as a piece of cardiovascular exercise equipment, but as a grueling torture device to punish lazy prisoners in British jails.
Sir William Cubitt invented the original treadmill in 1818 not as a piece of cardiovascular exercise equipment, but as a grueling torture device to punish…
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Volkswagen vehicles specifically the iconic beetle model were designed with a sealed steel bottom that accidentally allowed the car to float in water for a few minutes; while it…
Volkswagen vehicles specifically the iconic beetle model were designed with a sealed steel bottom that accidentally allowed the car to float in water for a…
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Grasshoppers do not have ears on their heads, but instead process sound through small, drum-like membranes called tympana located on either side of their abdomen, tucked just beneath their wings.
Grasshoppers do not have ears on their heads, but instead process sound through small, drum-like membranes called tympana located on either side of their…
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Daniel Radcliffe reportedly broke roughly eighty different prop wands over the course of filming the Harry Potter franchise because he could not stop using them as drumsticks against his legs between takes.
Daniel Radcliffe reportedly broke roughly eighty different prop wands over the course of filming the Harry Potter franchise because he could not stop using…
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Gematria is a traditional mystical system where alphabetical letters are assigned numerical values, allowing practitioners to find hidden connections between words that happen to add up to the exact same number.
Gematria is a traditional mystical system where alphabetical letters are assigned numerical values, allowing practitioners to find hidden connections between…
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Pong is widely considered the first commercially successful video game, but Atari's founder Nolan Bushnell aggressively stole the entire concept from a different console called the Magnavox Odyssey.
Pong is widely considered the first commercially successful video game, but Atari's founder Nolan Bushnell aggressively stole the entire concept from a…
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Over one million liters of beer flooded the streets of London in 1814 when a massive wooden fermentation vat burst at the Meux and Company Brewery.
Over one million liters of beer flooded the streets of London in 1814 when a massive wooden fermentation vat burst at the Meux and Company Brewery. The…
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SpongeBob SquarePants was originally going to be named SpongeBoy Ahoy, but creator Stephen Hillenburg had to change it at the last minute because the name was already legally trademarked by a brand of literal floor mops.
SpongeBob SquarePants was originally going to be named SpongeBoy Ahoy, but creator Stephen Hillenburg had to change it at the last minute because the name was…
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Ketchup was originally sold not as a condiment for your french fries, but as a legitimate medicine in the 1830s to cure ailments like diarrhea, indigestion, and jaundice.
Ketchup was originally sold not as a condiment for your french fries, but as a legitimate medicine in the 1830s to cure ailments like diarrhea, indigestion,…
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Microsoft Solitaire was not included in Windows 3.0 just for fun, but as a stealthy psychological training tool to teach computer illiterate boomers how to use a mouse.
Microsoft Solitaire was not included in Windows 3.0 just for fun, but as a stealthy psychological training tool to teach computer illiterate boomers how to…
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