Posts by Adan Mathews

You love facts. I love facts. But did you know our most beloved facts from the last year? Well, now you will because I’ve compiled this amazing list of the most liked and shared posts from our 2015 Tumblr blog posts! It’s a weird list, but the data doesn’t lie. Do with it what you will. I’m also going...

Settle down and listen up, or I’ll have to be all aggressive and use my whip to get what I want. Now, please read these facts so I don’t look ridiculous tryna be cool like Harrison Ford. #5. The filmmakers loved their dogs, which led to true love for one of them. Indiana Jones was named after...

Almost all kids (and most adults, tbh) love Lego. They’re simple and can be used for just about anything. Braille Bricks wants to add something else to that list by using Lego-compatible bricks to help blind children learn to read in an inclusive setting. Lego Design Specialist Arthur Sacek puts the work of Braille Bricks into simple...

From January 15-18, 2016 fans of The Walking Dead boarded the Walker Stalker cruise from Miami to Grand Bahama Island, and it was apparently a pretty big hit… So, like the zombies they admire so much, they’re planning on coming back for more. OK… Maybe that’s not the best photo. But, it was my favorite. Here’s...

If you’ve ever thought that, you’re not alone. Even Courteney Cox seemed to notice it when she brought this up to Conan O’Brien: “My voice sounds so different because I think they speed it up a little bit, they speed it up a few frames to get another commercial in there.” She was absolutely right....

Melissa Hie travels the world eating and snapping pics of street food under the moniker, “Girl Eat World.” Honestly, this sounds like one of the best jobs in the world. With over 300 super tasty posts, I thought it would be best to focus on the cutest foods she has found thus far. So, here...

I don’t know what company it’s for, nor do I know what they’re trying to say, but if you still can’t get the nasty taste out of your mouth from that crazy-racist Chinese detergent ad… …then this just might do the trick. It starts out simple enough… There’s a dude. There’s a lady. They’re staring at each other… but then…...

Hide-and-seek has been a summertime classic since probably forever or something, right? Even so, not everybody can be a natural. For some, it takes practice. In homage to all of those people, here are 30 kids who are still learning the ropes of the game: #30. This one’s pretty impressive, but also a poor spot....

Krishna Kumar is from Hyderabad, India, and he feels that achieving a world record is the “highest level of human achievement.” He is not alone in India. Guinness had to set up a new field office there in 2011 after the country made the third largest number of applications for world records, behind only the US and the...

Photographer Tim Samuel landed one of the luckiest shots of his life back in 2015 when he captured a fish swimming inside of a jellyfish off Byron Bay, Australia. Well, swimming might be a stretch, but see for yourself! I found a fish inside a jellyfish! He was trapped in there, but controlled where the...

Marriage is a big deal. So it’s no surprise that some couples go all out to let folks know they’re getting married. Which isn’t to say that one needs to spend a lot of money. Creativity rules with these 14 engagement announcements: #14. I don’t even know what the hell this is supposed to communicate....

Low prices aren’t always enough to sell merchandise – sometimes, you need to get the customer’s attention. What better way to do that than with a dash of humor/meme-theft? Here are 17 times shop owners took matters into their own hands and got creative to get their stuff flying off the shelves: #17. This one...

The US Navy has a prototype railgun that can fire a 25lb projectile at 4,500 miles an hour. The 32-foot barrel uses opposing electromagnetic currents to accelerate the projectile. It exits the barrel at a speed more than double the average bullet velocity. And the shoe that acted as a conductor splits away like something out...

Former model Jonathan Quiñonez lived out all of our dreams when he quit his job and hit the road to travel the world. But, to make sure that his mother wouldn’t worry, he brought a handy sign along with him. He states on Instagram, “Whatever your age is, if you have a Latin mom and a...

What if you could turn your disability into an opportunity for expression? How about superpowers, or at least special powers?… The Alternative Limb Project has been creating realistic and alternative prosthetic limbs since a 2-year-old inspired them to think more creatively about the process. Their collaborations with the people who wear the prosthetics are essential...