The QI trio of John Lloyd, James Harkin and Anne Miller have compiled a book called “2,024 QI Facts To Stop You In Your Tracks”. And here is the gem that explains David Attenborough’s contribution to tennis: “Yellow tennis balls, which look better on colour…

New research strongly suggests that cocaine bites the hand that feeds it, by harming or even killing the very brain cells that trigger the "high" that cocaine users feel. The first-ever direct finding of cocaine-induced damage to the human brain's dopamine…

fried chicken dish from the Southern United States

Low Magnesium Symptoms Shouldn’t be Ignored
Low magnesium symptoms are more dangerous than you think!

THIS PROBLEM AFFECTS PATIENTS: 2-4 days after their fir

His bulge was so big that he was prescribed pills to "shrink me up."

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The 1906 Chicago dinosaur invasion hoax was an elaborate April Fools' Day prank played in the United States by the editors of the Chicago Tribune, the Scranton Republican, the Rochester, New York Democrat and Chronicle, the Salt Lake Herald-Republican, and…

9/11 hijacked passenger flight, hit the South Tower of the World Trade Center

1901 constitution of the American state of Alabama

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From jeans to dating partners and TV subnoscriptions to schools, we think the more choices we have the better. But too many options create anxiety. Could one answer lie in a return to state monopolies?

Electronic cigarettes are advertised as the latest technological gadget—the smoking equivalent of smart phones. I challenge this sense of novelty by tracing their history to the 1960s, when researchers at British American Tobacco first recognized ...

Smoking bans are public policies, including criminal laws and occupational safety and health regulations, that prohibit tobacco smoking in certain spaces. The United States Congress has not attempted to enact any type of nationwide federal smoking ban in…

Whether out shopping, or exploring a new city, we’re all going to need to use the toilet at some point during the day. But which cities across the UK and the US have the most and least public toilets? @QSSupplies have created the Public Toilet Index to find…

Smashing atoms together can be used for evil, but some scientists are in it for that Guinness World Record

Bumper cars have been essential attractions from the earliest days of amusement parks to the present.

The aardwolf (Proteles cristata) is an insectivorous species of hyena, native to East and Southern Africa. Its name means "earth-wolf" in Afrikaans and Dutch. It is also called the maanhaar-jackal (Afrikaans for "mane-jackal"), termite-eating hyena and civet…

There are few things more irritating than being woken by noisy neighbours. But how much do you actually have to put up with.