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The Most Extreme Female Body Modification Practices From Around The World

From teeth chiseling to neck stretching, the world's most extreme female body modification practices are even worse than they sound.

By Briana Jones • Nov 18, 2015

The Most Extreme Female Body Modification Practices From Around The World

From teeth chiseling to neck stretching, the world's most extreme female body modification practices are even worse than they sound.

By Briana Jones • November 18, 2015

Four Pop Song Disses More Intriguing Than Carly Simon’s “You’re So Vain”

For more than 40 years, people have been debating who Carly Simon’s “You’re So Vain” is about. Actors, rock stars, and others have all been offered up as candidates, yet Simon insisted she would never tell. Her coyness of course fanned the flames, with NBC bigwig Dick Ebersol even paying...

By Nickolaus Hines • Nov 18, 2015

Four Pop Song Disses More Intriguing Than Carly Simon’s “You’re So Vain”

For more than 40 years, people have been debating who Carly Simon’s “You’re So Vain” is about. Actors, rock stars, and others have all been offered up as candidates, yet Simon insisted she would never tell. Her coyness of course fanned the flames, with NBC bigwig Dick Ebersol even paying...

By Nickolaus Hines • November 18, 2015

Inside The Six Coolest Bookstores In The World

From an opulent former cathedral in the Netherlands to a converted palatial theater in Argentina, these are the world's coolest bookstores.

By All That's Interesting • Nov 18, 2015

Inside The Six Coolest Bookstores In The World

From an opulent former cathedral in the Netherlands to a converted palatial theater in Argentina, these are the world's coolest bookstores.

By All That's Interesting • November 18, 2015

What’s Inside The Time Capsule Of Humanity We Made For Aliens

From photos to rock records, these are the surprising things we're offering up to any aliens we may find in order to explain the human race

By Nickolaus Hines • Nov 13, 2015

What’s Inside The Time Capsule Of Humanity We Made For Aliens

From photos to rock records, these are the surprising things we're offering up to any aliens we may find in order to explain the human race

By Nickolaus Hines • November 13, 2015

22 Things You Didn’t Know About Friday The 13th

The clinical term for a phobia of Friday the 13th is paraskevidekatriaphobia and more interesting facts about Friday the 13th.

By Abby Norman • Nov 13, 2015

22 Things You Didn’t Know About Friday The 13th

The clinical term for a phobia of Friday the 13th is paraskevidekatriaphobia and more interesting facts about Friday the 13th.

By Abby Norman • November 13, 2015

Failed Products: Adult Baby Food, Purple Ketchup, And Other Fabulous Flops

Tucked away in Ann Arbor, Michigan is NewProductWorks (NPW). Affiliated with global market research consultants GfK, NPW has a stock of about 120,000 different products across 350 categories. There is just about one of everything crammed onto the shelves. For this reason, companies and individuals looking to create and market...

By Callie Stewart • Nov 12, 2015

Failed Products: Adult Baby Food, Purple Ketchup, And Other Fabulous Flops

Tucked away in Ann Arbor, Michigan is NewProductWorks (NPW). Affiliated with global market research consultants GfK, NPW has a stock of about 120,000 different products across 350 categories. There is just about one of everything crammed onto the shelves. For this reason, companies and individuals looking to create and market...

By Callie Stewart • November 12, 2015

Inside Kyoto, The City Of 10,000 Shrines

They don’t call Kyoto the “city of 10,000 shrines” for nothing. The ancient cities of Nara and Kyoto are located in what’s known as Japan’s Kansai region, where many emperors resided long ago. Immaculate shrines drape the region in timeless grandeur, and are made that much more splendid courtesy of...

By Erin Kelly • Nov 9, 2015

Inside Kyoto, The City Of 10,000 Shrines

They don’t call Kyoto the “city of 10,000 shrines” for nothing. The ancient cities of Nara and Kyoto are located in what’s known as Japan’s Kansai region, where many emperors resided long ago. Immaculate shrines drape the region in timeless grandeur, and are made that much more splendid courtesy of...

By Erin Kelly • November 9, 2015

Welcome To Kamchatka: Far Eastern Russia’s Wild, Volcanic Peninsula

Tourists are beginning to trickle into the volcanic peninsula of Kamchatka in Russia. If you don't have the budget to visit just yet, let us be your guide.

By John Schellhase • Nov 8, 2015

Welcome To Kamchatka: Far Eastern Russia’s Wild, Volcanic Peninsula

Tourists are beginning to trickle into the volcanic peninsula of Kamchatka in Russia. If you don't have the budget to visit just yet, let us be your guide.

By John Schellhase • November 8, 2015

What Happens To Your Body When You Do Krokodil, The “Zombie Drug”

The drug currently known as krokodil was born in the early 1930s as desomorphine, a fast-acting medical alternative to morphine. But by the 1990s, Russian doctors began noticing reptilian patches of skin on some drug addicts in Siberia and Far East Russia. Today, the drug’s cheap, concentrated power makes it...

By Richard Stockton • Nov 7, 2015

What Happens To Your Body When You Do Krokodil, The “Zombie Drug”

The drug currently known as krokodil was born in the early 1930s as desomorphine, a fast-acting medical alternative to morphine. But by the 1990s, Russian doctors began noticing reptilian patches of skin on some drug addicts in Siberia and Far East Russia. Today, the drug’s cheap, concentrated power makes it...

By Richard Stockton • November 7, 2015

Meet Vít Jedlička, The President Of Liberland, A Tea Party Paradise In Eastern Europe

The 2.7 square mile country called Liberland was just founded and its ruler is modeling his politics on the Tea Party movement.

By Teresa Cantero • Nov 4, 2015

Meet Vít Jedlička, The President Of Liberland, A Tea Party Paradise In Eastern Europe

The 2.7 square mile country called Liberland was just founded and its ruler is modeling his politics on the Tea Party movement.

By Teresa Cantero • November 4, 2015

Sliced And Stacked: A Brief History Of The Sandwich

Despite all of our worldly excesses, the sandwich is proof that at our core, people are pragmatic. Before the term “sandwich” was coined, this portable food was simply called “meat on bread,” which frankly doesn’t have quite the same ring to it. Hot or cold, savory or sweet, finger-food or...

By Erin Kelly • Nov 2, 2015

Sliced And Stacked: A Brief History Of The Sandwich

Despite all of our worldly excesses, the sandwich is proof that at our core, people are pragmatic. Before the term “sandwich” was coined, this portable food was simply called “meat on bread,” which frankly doesn’t have quite the same ring to it. Hot or cold, savory or sweet, finger-food or...

By Erin Kelly • November 2, 2015

The Surprising Stories Behind Seven Of The Most Common Superstitions

Crossing the path of a black cat portends misfortune to come. Breaking a mirror brings seven years of bad luck. Walking under a ladder is just asking for trouble. These common superstitions have permeated our culture for thousands of years, leaving some of their sinister origins long since forgotten…

By Briana Jones • Oct 30, 2015

The Surprising Stories Behind Seven Of The Most Common Superstitions

Crossing the path of a black cat portends misfortune to come. Breaking a mirror brings seven years of bad luck. Walking under a ladder is just asking for trouble. These common superstitions have permeated our culture for thousands of years, leaving some of their sinister origins long since forgotten…

By Briana Jones • October 30, 2015