The ‘New York Times’ Once Thought Cheeseburgers Were Just a Weird New Fad
It can be strange now to imagine a world where cheeseburgers were a new thing and not something that was on people’s dinner menus at least once a month. If you think about it, though, all food that’s not consumed in its natural state had to be “invented” along the way – for some reason,...
20 People Discuss What Dead People Would Be Surprised That They Became Famous After They Were Gone
Well, this sure is an interesting question, huh? Some people really don’t become famous until after they’ve passed away. Vincent Van Gogh, Edgar Allan Poe, all kinds of scientists and philosophers I’ve never heard of. The list goes on and on… Who would be surprised to learn they were famous if you had a chance...
Did the Universe Begin With the Big Bang After All?
From a very young age, we’ve been taught that the universe we occupy for our short lives began as a result of the Big Bang. This theory posits that everything in our universe came into existence at that one moment and roughly 13.7 billion years later, you’re sitting here reading this article. This theory dates...
3,700-Year-Old Babylonian Stone Tablet Gets Translated, Changes History About Advanced Math
Historians once credited the Greeks with the study of complex geometric principles. But a University of New South Wales professor Dr. Daniel Mansfield recently made a new history-changing discovery: Babylonians were doing advanced math 1,500 years before the Greeks were! Mansfield and his team found this out after cracking a code on an old Babylonian...
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16 Things That People Would Erase From Existence If They Could
Okay, this is a weird question from AskReddit, no doubt about it. Here it goes: “You are allowed to erase anything from existence, and you will be the only one that remembers it. What do you get rid of?” This should be interesting… Here’s what people came up with. 1. I second this one. “Mosquitoes....
4 Weird Manias That Gripped Society Then Disappeared
Mob mentality is as old as the human race, and yet it remains something slightly mysterious, perhaps because we have no real way to understand or control it. There are stories going back centuries about people who, for one reason or another or for no reason at all, collectively lose their sh*t. Maybe papers have...