There is a 100-year-old woman still teaching math at her elementary school in Brooklyn.
A staff writer for The New Yorker came to the office every day …
A staff writer for The New Yorker came to the office every day from 1964 to his death in 1996 — and never published a single story.
Minutes before the Halifax Explosion, (one of the largest non…
Minutes before the Halifax Explosion, (one of the largest non-nuclear, man-made explosions) a dispatcher named Vince Coleman returned to his station to send a warning telegram, saving 300 lives at the cost of his own.
Members of the band “Good Charlotte” protested against KFC’s treatment…
Members of the band “Good Charlotte” protested against KFC’s treatment of chickens. Then in 2012 and 2013 appeared in a number of KFC commercials in Australia and even tried to set a world record for eating KFC on “Australia’s Got Talent”.
After Betelgeuse goes supernova, it will be brighter than a full moon…
After Betelgeuse goes supernova, it will be brighter than a full moon and visible during the day. It will shine for weeks/months before fading away. It will likely explode within a million years.
Finland is a future-obsessed nation. It was the first country in the world to…
Finland is a future-obsessed nation. It was the first country in the world to offer a master’s degree in futures studies, has a special parliamentary committee for the future, and its government is required by law to produce an official review of the future every four years.
8 Facts About Beyonce
Beyoncé is a big name in the music industry and has millions of fans all across the globe. This pop singer, who is also a brilliant actress, a strong philanthropist and a very loving mother is amongst the most beautiful woman in music. She began her career as a solo artist, winning five Grammy awards […]
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Facts About Uranus
Often the butt of adolescent jokes about our solar system, what can I tell you that’s new about Uranus? Well, maybe not yours specifically… Uranus is the seventh planet from the sun in our solar system. It was officially discovered by William Herschel on March 13, 1781, but his discovery was purely accidental. It had […]
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A mysterious young woman known only as “Bionerd23″ has spent the last…
A mysterious young woman known only as “Bionerd23″ has spent the last couple of years wandering around the destroyed nuclear plant at Chernobyl, ignoring the radiation danger and occasionally eating radioactive apples. Despite her dozens of YouTube videos, no one seems to know who she is.
A woman spent 12 years in a Kansas mental institution against her will…
A woman spent 12 years in a Kansas mental institution against her will after being diagnosed as a schizophrenic because they assumed she was mentally ill and speaking gibberish. She was really Tarahumara Indian from Mexico who spoke a rare dialect.