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...
Internet Detective Uncovers the True Origin of the Name ‘Triscuit’
Triscuits are a solidly average cracker; aside from their unique texture, there’s nothing too special about them. That’s what makes it all the more surprising that Triscuits were the subject of a riveting Twitter thread involving electricity. Twitter user Sage Boggs’ thread on the subject became so popular that he changed his bio to “Triscuit guy.” Sage’s...
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...
8 Countries That Actually Have More Than One Capital City
When you think of a country’s capital, you probably think of one major city that serves as the seat of government. Yet, that’s not always the case. There are some countries that have two or even more such cities. Countries that are formed by merging regions can have mulitple power centers. Or sometimes, cultures can...
8 Photos of the Bookmobiles We Needed Before the Internet Came Along
A long, long time ago, rural homes had no way to get books other than from libraries on wheels. These bookmobiles traveled all over the countryside delivering literature to towns and villages. The first bookmobile was a horse-drawn carriage appearing in Warrington, England, in the late 1850s. Later, vehicles outfitted with libraries lent out books,...