Want a nice stuffed animal? If you're using a claw machine, be careful: the system is rigged.

-A curious adult from Ireland


March 25, 2015


Because you and your sister are identical twins, you pretty much have the same DNA. Not exactly but pretty darned close.


This is because you both started from the same fertilized egg. Which is why

Feudal Japan may have been a man's world, but there were plenty of women fighting in it. Onna-bugeisha was a type of female warrior belonging to the Japanese nobility.

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As one would expect, Ronald Reagan was the recipient of thousands of letters each month during his presidency–a mailbag so voluminous, in fact, that a gang of patient volunteers were tasked w…

“MDZhB” has been broadcasting since 1982. No one knows why.

Julius Caesar kept a cache of it in the government treasury and the Greeks even put it on their money. It was worth its weight in gold – but no one knows if it still exists.

Reunited with his cast during a 25th anniversary celebration at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival, Spielberg also spoke about battling antisemitism on set.

What we can learn from a supposed master of national subversion, Yuri Bezmenov. What unintended consequences follow from this framework?

The Battle of Blair Mountain was the largest labor uprising in United States history and the largest armed uprising since the American Civil War. The conflict occurred in Logan County, West Virginia, as part of the Coal Wars, a series of early-20th-century…

War can have a devastating impact on the environment. But protected from human interference, demilitarized zones around the world have turned into unexpected refuges for wildlife.

1932-33 famine in Soviet Ukraine

If you’re worried about your sodium intake, watch out for the bread.

Counting prisoners as residents of the prison town in the Census creates big problems for state and local redistricting and for statistical research

On this day in the year 1170 BCE, the first recorded strike took place against the building of pyramids in Egypt. It may be the first documented labor strike in history.

Muir spent three days with President Roosevelt. Three crucial days for conservation in the US. Find out more in this one here.

Maladaptive daydreaming is when someone has consuming daydreams that interfere with their daily life. These daydreams are triggered by real-life events.

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