If you had $100 billion that you had to spend, how would you even do it? A simulation by Neal Agarwal lets you squander the wealth of Bill Gates on things… Read the rest of the article: In this simulation, spending Bill Gates' 100 billion is exhausting

For $80, you can buy an annual pass to the world's first Peppa Pig theme park, which is set to open in February 2022. The British animated children's series has… Read the rest of the article: Florida is getting a Peppa Pig theme park

The word "orange" described a fruit before it described a color. The English word "orange" was first used to describe citrus in the 1300s, and wasn't used for the color… Read the rest of the article: Cool facts about the word "orange"

I stumbled upon the potentially dangerous food category on Wikipedia and I have learned a lot. Most of the list entries made sense: raw meat, money brains, a fungus that… Read the rest of the article: Beware the dangers of mochi

Thanks to a new feature on iOS 15 released on September 20th, students can use iPhone cameras to copy and paste the notes of students in front of them. Gone… Read the rest of the article: How to use iOS 15 to steal your classmate's notes

Designer/developer duo Amanda and Hunter Loftis created a free deck of question cards to ask friends or significant others. The questions spark conversation (What did you want to be when… Read the rest of the article: Free online deck of questions for an at-home date night

Get ready for a blast from the past. The last announcement on brendanfraser.com is from 2005, and most of its updates happened around 2001. The flash website contains the actor's… Read the rest of the article: Brendan Fraser's personal website is like an early 2000s time capsule

"You shouldn't have a favorite murder," writes Emma Berquist. In an essay for the new Gawker, Berquist discusses her own violent attack— and criticizes our obsession with true crime. Chirpy… Read the rest of the article: A victim of a stabbing thinks our true crime obsession is creepy

I grew up in Michigan calling these little creatures "rolly pollies" and I also knew "pill bug." I recently realized that the tiny animals have many, many more names than… Read the rest of the article: What do YOU call these tiny land crustaceans?

They called it "The Big Rick." At 11 am on April 30th, 2021, each networked display screen in a large Illinois school district played "Never Gonna Give You Up." Three… Read the rest of the article: Techy high schooler rickrolls his entire district, then helps secure its network

Nearly 4000 people are in the r/Chris subreddit, an internet community devoted to all things Chris/Christopher. The group regularly comes together to hate Christopher Columbus, the Italian explorer whose genocidal… Read the rest of the article: There's a subreddit for people named Chris who hate Columbus

Anna Sacks, known as @thetrashwalker, has gained a following by rifling through the trash. She documents her "garbage walks" on Instagram and Tiktok, showing the perfectly good products that NYC… Read the rest of the article: TikToker shares how Coach destroys unwanted merchandise despite public commitments to a "circular economy"

On National Coming Out Day, DC Comics announced that Superman will soon begin a relationship with a male named Jay Nakamura. The development will occur in the book "Superman: Son… Read the rest of the article: DC Comics: new Superman, son of Clark Kent and Lois Lane, is bisexual

On Oct. 11, record-breaking Jeopardy contestant Matt Amodio lost after a 38-game victory spree. He lost to Jonathan Fisher, an actor from Coral Gables, Florida. The Yale computer science Ph.D.… Read the rest of the article: Jeopardy contestant's 38-game streak comes to an end

There were 183 different #1 hits in May 2021, depending on location. To see how your city compares to others, check out this data journalism project by The Pudding that… Read the rest of the article: Are you in a "music bubble"? Check out local variations in #1 hits

Rasmus Lerdorf's work created the web as we know it, but he doesn't care for coding. "I really don't like programming. I built this tool to program less so that… Read the rest of the article: The renowned programmer who created PHP "hates programming" and said he's "not a real programmer."

I spent far too long thinking moths were just agricultural pests, lamp fanatics, and the homely cousins of butterflies. And a bizarre 2018 meme, and a storytelling podcast. I was… Read the rest of the article: An ode to moths and their breathtaking biophysics

On Friday, after a week of unprecedented Facebook outages, users reported yet another glitch. This one was innocuous— maybe even charming: kissing notifications. For some Facebook users, including me, the… Read the rest of the article: In a Facebook glitch, notifications appear to be kissing

The Pandora Papers leak is absolutely massive. The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) in Washington DC obtained almost 12 million documents— more than the Panama Papers and the Offshore leaks and… Read the rest of the article: The Pandora Papers…. as a Wes Anderson film

What a time to be alive. Two hundred years ago, you could cut bread with a bread knife and put it in an oven, but that just wouldn't be the… Read the rest of the article: Cool facts about sliced bread