I was watching “Monster Quest” on the History Channel over the weekend and found myself wondering how an article that places a ton of the world’s largest animals all together in one place at one time. Turns out it looks pretty awesome, yet also adorable, cringe-worthy, and occasionally downright disgusting.
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We know of a lot of celebrity siblings just due to the fact that they are sometimes both celebrities. Maggie and Jake Gyllenhaal, for example, or those twins from “Sister, Sister.” Beyond the most well-known brother/sister combos, though, are the siblings we rarely see. Below are the direct relatives of several celebrities, and I’m going [...]
All the physical matter on the face of the planet has been here forever. All the atoms that make up your body already were here on earth before you were born, formerly something else—air, dinosaur flesh, seaweed—rearranged to create a cute little human baby. And there’s a finite number of those atoms. If it were [...]
In 1911, Mona Lisa was stolen from The Louvre. They didn’t have things like security cameras and burglar alarms back then, and in fact the painting wasn’t even fastened to the wall. It just sat on four hooks and was placed in a glass case. Kinda made it easy to steal. They got it back [...]
Here’s something to blow your mind—light is invisible. I’m telling you, I heard this and it took me like fifteen minutes to wrap my mind around it. See, when we’re “seeing” light, we’re not seeing the light itself. What we’re seeing is the matter that light bounces off of. Think of the moon, for example. [...]
