The game City Guesser has the same premise of GeoGuessr in that you are to guess where in the world you are. But City Guesser gives you clues in the… Read the rest of the article: Can you guess what city is the setting of a random street video?

We all know the story of Sgt. Alvin York, mostly because of the 1941 Gary Cooper movie. York killed 25 enemy soldiers and captured 132 more in one day in… Read the rest of the article: How history forgot the comrades of America's legendary WWI hero Alvin York

In a valiant attempt to produce a Valentines Day feature on a subject they haven't already covered, Smithsonian introduces us to animals that are naturally pink. Silly Smithsonian, we don't… Read the rest of the article: Meet some bright pink animals

Movies that use one actor to play two (or more) twins, clones, or doppelgängers have been around for an entire century now. An actor interacting with themself has always been… Read the rest of the article: How Hollywood has produced twins scenes for a century

Alasdair Beckett-King distilled Scandinavian crime dramas into one scene for us last month. Now he does the same with classic Hollywood noir. In the final scene, we can fairly well… Read the rest of the article: How every film noir ends

First spotted in 2018, scientists are now learning more about an orbiting rock that is the furthest known object in our solar system. (True, Voyager 1 is further out, but… Read the rest of the article: The most distant known object in the solar system

John D. Boswell, better known as Melodysheep, brings us a visually-stunning illustration of the things that can happen in a fraction of a second across the known universe. When we… Read the rest of the article: What else happens in the "blink of an eye"?

NASA's fifth Mars rover Perseverance launched in July of 2020, and is scheduled to land on Mars on Thursday, February 18th. The purpose of the rover is to look for… Read the rest of the article: What to know before Perseverance lands on Mars

Charlie Chaplin hated Hitler. The German dictator was born the same week he was in 1899, and dared to wear a similar mustache. Most of all, he hated what Hitler… Read the rest of the article: The film that dared to laugh at Hitler

A mother parakeet was sold from a pet shop and left an egg behind. Alwyn Wils had raised many birds and other animals, most notably a quail chick called Albert… Read the rest of the article: Tiny parrot raised from a rescued egg

What we have here is a lesson in flatulence in the animal kingdom. We'll meet a snake that draws in air to make scary noises, insects that kill with farts,… Read the rest of the article: The world's most dangerous fart

Every once in a while, you comes across a name listed as "John Doe, Esquire," or something like that. What does it mean? The short answer is that it means… Read the rest of the article: The bizarre conspiracy theory regarding the title "esquire"

You already knew that tardigrades are weird creatures, but you'll get way more weirdness when Ze Frank explains them. For example, they come in all shapes and colors, including transparent.… Read the rest of the article: Watch a tardigrade poop crystals

The new representative from Georgia gets a soothing easy-listening song with sublime rhymes for her biography as Randy Rainbow gives us an update of the song "Evergreen" from the 1976… Read the rest of the article: Randy Rainbow sings about Marjorie Taylor Greene

If one were to make a movie about the life of Eugene Jacques Bullard, it would run into two problems. First, it would appear implausible, likened to Little Big Man… Read the rest of the article: The amazing story of the Black Sparrow

The world has made great leaps in miniaturizing electronics, bringing the computer from room-size down to one that will fit into your pocket. But how small is too small? Is… Read the rest of the article: An inch-tall Game Boy clone

I can tell you what it was like, because 1977 is when I first saw Star Wars. I had missed the hype, because I was in college and saw no… Read the rest of the article: What it was really like to see Star Wars in 1977

Almost all the US presidents had pets in the White House of one kind or another. As you might expect, dogs and cats are the most common, but over the… Read the rest of the article: All the president's pets

Penn Holderness sings a song about his Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder to the tune of "Under the Sea" from The Little Mermaid. It's the most cheerful description of ADHD you'll… Read the rest of the article: ADHD, the song

Passports are travel documents that vary across the world and over time. Some are proof of citizenship, some aren't, but all are identification for travelers. While they were used here… Read the rest of the article: A curious journey through the story of the passport