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21 Things You Didn’t Know About Black Friday

These Black Friday facts will have you staying home.

By All That's Interesting • Nov 24, 2015

21 Things You Didn’t Know About Black Friday

These Black Friday facts will have you staying home.

By All That's Interesting • November 24, 2015

Corrupted Blood: How Epidemiologists Use World Of Warcraft To Save Lives

Discover what a video game has to teach top researchers about epidemics, death, and human behavior.

By Callie Stewart • Nov 19, 2015

Corrupted Blood: How Epidemiologists Use World Of Warcraft To Save Lives

Discover what a video game has to teach top researchers about epidemics, death, and human behavior.

By Callie Stewart • November 19, 2015

20 Monopoly Games You Never Knew Existed

As anyone who has played the board game Monopoly knows, the pursuit of profit can lead people to do some pretty outlandish things — including creating dozens of Monopoly variations to market to a specific demographic. Originally made in 1903 as a way to help people understand progressive political economist...

By Erin Kelly • Nov 19, 2015

20 Monopoly Games You Never Knew Existed

As anyone who has played the board game Monopoly knows, the pursuit of profit can lead people to do some pretty outlandish things — including creating dozens of Monopoly variations to market to a specific demographic. Originally made in 1903 as a way to help people understand progressive political economist...

By Erin Kelly • November 19, 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 • 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