• Countries with Walmart Vs. Countries with McDonald’s
• The World’s Largest Starbucks Just Opened in Shanghai, and We Have One Word: Wow
• World’s Largest, Most Lavish Starbucks Opens in Shanghai
• The World’s Largest Starbucks Is 30,000 Square Feet and Just Opened in China
• These 5 Giant Companies Control the World’s Bee…
Most This and That
• What Was the Most Influential Photograph in History?
• What Was the Most Significant Event to Happen on a Holiday?
• What Was the Most Peaceful Time in History?
• What Was the Most Influential Power Couple in History?
Born to Roam
• The Story of Human Migration Out of Africa Just Got Rewritten
• Kazuo Ishiguro’s Nobel Speech Exquisitely Describes the Immigrant Longing for an Imagined Home
• The Global Dominance of White People Is Thanks to the Potato
• Could You Pass the Exam Meghan Markle Will Take to Become a British Citizen?
• ‘Know What Jandals Are?’…
Not Forgotten
• Native Words, Native Warriors: Navajo Code Talkers
• Hedy Lamarr’s Forgotten, Frustrated Career as a Wartime Inventor
• The Forgotten Doughnut Heroines of Wartime
• The Forgotten Story of the ‘Idle Women’ – Who Fought the Second World War on Britain’s Canals
• The Secret World War II…
Do You Hear What I Hear?
• Can You Hear the Pylons Thud? The Silent Gif Dubbed an ‘Optical Illusion for the Ears’
• A Silent GIF That Somehow Makes You Hear a Sound
• Scientist Seeks to Learn Why Some People Are Able to Hear Silent a GIF of Power Lines Jumping Rope
• A Man Builds an Incredibly Loud, Leaf Blower Powered Train Horn out of a 55 Gallon Dru…
Weight for Santa
• How Much Weight Would Santa Gain from Eating Milk and Cookies at Every House He Visits?
• Santa Claus, Indiana Gets 20,000 Letters a Year — and ‘Elves’ Reply to All of Them
• Here Lies Santa Claus? Researchers Zero In on Bones of St. Nick
• Finally, Proof That Christmas Songs Really Do Your Head I…
Red All Over
• How an Italian Immigrant Rolled Out the Radio Flyer Wagon Across America
• There Never Was Such a Thing as a Red Phone in the White House
• Facebook Bans Artist’s ‘Sexual’ Robin Redbreast Christmas Cards
• Artist’s ‘Sexual’ Robin Redbreast Christmas Cards Banned by Faceboo…
Unusual Museums
• Clue, Wiffle Ball, Paper Airplane Enter Toy Hall of Fame
• Is It Time We Built a Museum of the History of American History?
• A South London Park of Inaccurate Dinosaur Sculptures That Must Legally Stay Inaccurate
• Inside Connecticut’s Secret Museum of Retro-Future Oddities
Map Lust 3
• U.S. Corn Production by Percent
• Global Farming Land, USGS Survey
• Official Language Status in the US by State
• Cropland Map of the Continental US, 2012
• Land Value in Manhattan, 2006
• Fragile State Index, 2015
• This Map, with a Dot for Every American, Shows the Country’s Racial Divisio…
Who’s Bigger?
• These Are All the Places That Europeans Actually Discovered
• Australia Compared to the Continental United States
• The Size of Japan Compared with New Zealand
• Japan, How Big It Is in Reality?
• The Size of the Middle East Compared to the United States
• How Big Greenland Actually Is
Tread Lightly, Grasshopper
• Watch a 17th-Century Portrait Magically Get Restored to Its Brilliant Original Colors
• Researchers Find Grasshopper Stuck in Classic Van Gogh Painting
• Tiny Grasshopper Found Hidden in Van Gogh Painting, 128 Years Later
• Dead Grasshopper Discovered in Vincent Van Gogh Painting
• Conservators Discover…
When the White Men Leave Their Huts
• UK Media Should Stop Peddling Colonial Era Narratives
• The White Man’s Blunders of ‘Explorer’ Benedict Allen Feed Racist Myths
• What’s the Difference Between Explorers, Anthropologists and Tourists?
• British Explorer Benedict Allen ‘Goes Missing in Jungle’ While Searching for Lost Tribe
• Family of British Explore…
What a Crab
• Amelia Earhart May Have Been Eaten by Three-Foot Crabs
• Was Amelia Earhart Eaten by Giant Land Crabs?
• Amazing Video Shows Coconut Crab Killing Bird in Brutal Fashion
• Giant Coconut Crab Seen Hunting Birds
• These Crabs Can Grow up to 3 Feet — And Hunt Birds, a Biologist’s Video Prove…
Always New Old Things to Find
• Titanic Was Found During Secret Cold War Navy Mission
• Ancient Fortress Found at Bottom of Lake in Turkey
• San Francisco Shipwreck: Divers Find ‘Cannonball Clue’
• Archaeologist Uncovers Rich History at Bradford’s Lost Football Ground
• Evidence of World’s Earliest Winemaking Uncovered by…
Lost & Found Art
• Rare Photograph of Billy the Kid Found at a Flea Market
• ‘Lost’ Masterpiece by Spanish Artist Found Hanging in Welsh Castle
• This Man Was Living on $200 a Month When He Sold a ‘Worthless’ Blanket for $1.5 Million
• Stolen Painting Worth Estimated $165M Found Behind Bedroom Doo…
Da Vinci Still Stirs
• Which of These Three Artworks Should Go on View at the National Portrait Gallery?
• Palettes of the Masters: Gauguin
• All the Da Vincis in the World: Rated
• People Are Obsessed with Watching an Art Dealer Remove Varnish from a 200-Year-Old Painting
• Why Did Leonardo Da Vinci…
Scrawls of the Scribes
• Why Ancient Mapmakers Were Terrified of Blank Spaces
• Medieval City Plan Generator
• Why Were Medieval Knights Always Fighting Snails?
• Why Babies in Medieval Paintings Look Like Middle-Aged Men: An Investigative Video
• Strange and Curious Wills of the Georgian Era in the Canterbury Court
Refugee Rescuers
• Man Who Spent Retirement Repairing Norfolk Milestones Hidden from Nazis Wins Prize
• A Cycling Legend’s Secret War Mission: Saving Italy’s Jews
• 10 Things You Didn’t Know about Schindler’s List
• His Brother’s Keeper: ‘Chinese Schindler’ Defied His Government to Rescue More Than 3,000 Austrian Jews
• Latin America’s Schindl…
Thanks for the Clarification
• Most Everything You Learned about Thanksgiving Is Wrong
• A Few Things You (Probably) Don’t Know about Thanksgiving
• The True Story Behind Plymouth Rock
• Thanksgiving Is an Annual Reminder of America’s Refugee Origins
• At Thanksgiving, the Search for a Black Pilgrim Among Plym…
Spies & Secrets
• Spy Mystery of British Sisters Who Helped Jewish Refugees Flee the Nazis
• Can You Solve It? Secrets of Russian Intelligence
• How a Master Grifter Taught the FBI to Crack Open the Art of the Deal
• The Homemaker Who Helped Solve One of Geometry’s Oldest Puzzles
• The Hidden Meaning of Kid…
Demography in Turmoil
• Six Words Fresh Off the Boat, a Powerful Six-Word Compilation about Cultural Identity and Immigration
• My Travels in White America — A Land of Anxiety, Division and Pockets of Pain
• One Weird Trick to End Gerrymandering: Cake-Cutting Game Theory
• Researchers Propose a Gaming Solution to Gerrymanderin…
Another War That Wasn’t
• Soviet Submarine Officer Who Averted Nuclear War Honoured with Prize
• When the World Lucked Out of a Nuclear War
• 10 of the World’s Weirdest Wars (and Where to Remember Them)
• During WWII, Mathematician Arne Beurling Made One of the Greatest…
• How the Tech Workers of WWII Thwarted the Nazis with H…
Of Bottles & Ships
• Picking Up Beer Bottles with an Excavator Is Harder Than It Sounds
• This Man Has a Collection of 1200 Messages in Bottles
• $450,000 Antique Treasure Map Found in Attic
• Unusual ‘Coffee Table’ Is a Mosaic from One of Caligula’s Party Ships
• Historians May Have Been Wrong about This Ancient Ro…
Grand Canyon, Uluru Safe for Now
• Beyond Genghis Khan: How Looting Threatens to Erase Mongolia’s History
• Amazon Tribe Clings to Traditional Way of Life
• Animal Rights Activists and Inuit Clash over Canada’s Indigenous Food Traditions
• Tribe Rejects Plan to Build Tram, Hotel in Grand Canyon
• Uluru Climb Banned fro…
Meals on Wheels, Wings, & Instagram
• A Japanese Convenience Store Used Drones to Deliver Fried Chicken to Fukushima
• Drone Delivers Food to Japan Town Hit by Nuclear Disaster
• How to Buy Milk at the Store in Japan, Even If You Don’t Read or Speak Any Japanese
• Meals on Wheels ‘Should Dish Out Keep-Fit Tips’ to Stave Off Infirmit…
Squirrel World News
• 10 Things You Don’t Know about Chipmunks
• How Does a Red Squirrel Cross the Road? French Local Authority Thinks It Has the Answer
• Fall Is for Squirrels
• Medieval Love of Squirrel Fur May Have Helped Spread Leprosy, Study Reveals
• Bolve Like a Stag
• Bison Comeback Story Has Bronx Accen…
Tech to The Future
• Are the Amish Right about New Technology?
• Humans Are Bad at Predicting Futures That Don’t Benefit Them
• Advice on How to Predict the Future, from a Professor Whose Job Is to Predict the Future
• ‘Slightly Crazy’ 19th-Century Weathermen Who Braved Formidable Conditions Could Aid Climate Predictions
• Stephen Hawking Says the …
Food Findings
• The History of Five Uniquely American Sandwiches
• How ‘Citizen Housewives’ Made Food Cheaper and Safer
• The History and Rebirth of the American Automat
• This Automated Restaurant Was Supposed to Be the Future of Dining. Until Humanity Struck Back
• The Surprising Science Behind the World’s Most Popular Frui…
Kids in Charge & Sheep View
• Why Do We Call People Blamed for Things ‘Scapegoats’?
• 15 Amazing Things You Probably Didn’t Know about Goats
• The Greek Beach Where Goats Are in Charge
• Is It … Baa-Rack Obama? Sheep Able to Recognise Celebrities, Say Neuroscientists
• Stunned Farmer Finds Flock o…
Forgotten Fall Folklore
• The Forgotten Romantic Rituals of Halloweens Past
• Find Love with These 18 Old Halloween Fortune-Telling Tricks
• When Halloween Was All Tricks and No Treats
• 7 Superstitions about Cats from around the World
• Spider Mythology from around the World
• 9 Things You Never Knew about Guy Fawke…
Treedom
• From Tennessee to Japan, Here Are 9 Otherworldly Forest Bathing Destinations
• A Biologist Believes That Trees Speak a Language We Can Learn
• The Wisdom of Trees: Walt Whitman on What Our Silent Friends Teach Us about Being Rather Than Seeming
• When You Think of Freedom, Remember the Charter of the Forest, Not the Ma…
Wanderlist 1
• 10 Simple Ways to Travel without Looking Like a Tourist
• Egypt’s Capital Cairo Is Worst Megacity for Women Worldwide, London Best
• Scotland’s Northeastern Scenery Circuit — 500 Miles of Sheep, History and Whisky
• Stonehenge Builders Feasted on Animals Brought from Scotland, Study Shows
• From Andes to Amazon: …
History’s Mysteries
• 10 Historical Events with Hilarious Forgotten Details
• Girl’s Message in a Bottle Finally Answered after 29 Years
• This Nuclear Fallout Shelter Was Untouched for 55 Years. It Might Come in Handy Now
• Long-Forgotten Rodin Sculpture Discovered in New Jersey Town Hall
• The Buried Secrets of the World’s Very First Lighthous…
Map Lust 2
• The Independence Movements around the World
• Median Age around the World
• Population Density of Africa with US Equivalents
• African Climate with Equivalent Cities from around the World
• Countries by GDP per Square Kilometer
• Computer-Generated Maps Imagine America Redivided into Equal-Population Ar…
Art of the Mustache
• Becoming with Sheep (Art Project)
• Need a Good Laugh? Check out Some 17th-Century Dutch Art
• The Dutch Masters Are Back: Blockbuster Vermeer Exhibition Opens at the National Gallery of Art
• Walter Isaacson Goes Inside the Most Creative Mind in History: Leonardo Da Vinci
• Leonardo Da Vinci: The …
Field of Drones
• Albatross Teaches Drones the Art of Marathon Flights
• Drones Are Keeping Watch on the Arctic’s Polar Bear Population
• Drones Save Fawns from Terrible Fates
• Defibrillator Drones Aim to Respond in 911 Calls
• Drones Help Discover Lost City with Ties to Alexander the Great
• Engineers Invent Folding Delivery Drone That Carries C…
News of the Ancient
• Sweet Potatoes Suggest Easter Island Had More People Than Previously Thought
• Mystery Surrounding Ancient Easter Island People Deepens
• Researchers Unveil an Unusual New Theory for How Easter Island’s Statues Were Made
• Scientists Return from Studying the Lost, Sunken Continent of Zealandia
• ‘Lost Continent’ Expediti…
Canoe Figure It Out?
• What Is This Thing Someone Found in a Creek Bed?
• Mysterious Object Makes Waves on Rhode Island Beach
• Wooden Canoe Found in Florida Could Be Linked to the 1600s
• Florida Has More Archaeological Canoes Than Anywhere Else in the World
• A Centuries-Old Frieze, Newly Deciphered, Tells the Story of the End of the Bronze Ag…
Bolshoe Spasibo, Colonel Petrov
• The “Man Who Saved the World” from Nuclear Annihilation Has Died
• Stanislav Petrov, Who Averted Nuclear War, Dies at 77
• Stanislav Petrov, Soviet Officer Who Helped Avert Nuclear War, Is Dead at 77
• Stanislav Petrov, the ‘Man Who Saved the World’ Dies at 77
• Soviet Officer Who Averte…
The Accidental Rainforest
• What the Bark Is That? – The Giving Tree Isn’t Home Right Now
• Clear-Cut Tropical Forest Revitalized with Industrial Orange Peel Waste
• This 12,000-Ton Pile of Orange Peels Is Now a Lush Costa Rican Forest
• How Discarded Orange Peels Brought a Costa Rica Forest Back to Life
• The Hidden Memories of Plant…
Cold Cases
• Can You Help Decipher This Note about Antarctic Explorer Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton?
• Activist Urges Walrus Rafts in Absence of Arctic Sea Ice
• Why Didn’t Russia Sell Alaska to Canada?
• Mårket Island: The Bizarre Border Between Sweden and Finland
• How This Giant Sphere in Iceland is Keeping Track of…
38,690-Day-Old Fruitcake
• Shopping Cart Alignment Chart
• Bread Storage Alignment Chart
• The Bottom Plate
• Should You Eat a 106-Year-Old Fruitcake?
• 35-Year-Old Can Of Corn Donated To Food Bank, Which Naturally Decides To Open It
• The Hamburger on Display in a Canadian Legislature
• Seattle Mariners Fans Are Going Crazy for these Crunchy Grass…
Prototype Tablet App
• Trigonometry Discovered on a 3700-Year-Old Ancient Babylonian Tablet
• This Mysterious Ancient Tablet Could Teach Us a Thing or Two about Math
• Archeologists Decipher Ancient Babylonian Trigonometry Tablet
• Mathematical Secrets of Ancient Tablet Unlocked after Nearly a Century of Study
• Ancient Babylonian Tablet Ma…
Around the House 1
• Why Mattresses Come with Warning Tags
• The Rise of the Recliner as a Male Social Space
• Plywood Manufacturing History Surprisingly Interesting
• Why Aren’t There Universal Sockets in Every Country?
• How Air-Conditioning Invented the Modern World
• How to Fix a Toilet and Other things We Can’t Do Withou…
War Stories
• ‘I May Have to Disobey My Government’: Lessons from ‘Japan’s Schindler’
• During WW II Two Americans Escaped the Japanese by Sailing 3,000 Miles in a Wooden Fishing Boat
• The Location of Internment Camps Had Profound, Long-Lasting Effects on Japanese-Americans Assigned to Them
• Macarthur’s Japan — This Br…
Book Business
• The Strawberry and Raspberry Hybrid Theory: Country Diary 100 Years Ago
• The 100 Best Nonfiction Books: No 85, Common Sense by Tom Paine (1776)
• How the Rise of Paperback Books Turned to Kill a Mockingbird into a Literary Classic
• How to Rescue a Wet Book
• How to Rescue a Wet, Dama…
Hidden Treasures 1
• Boston University Students Discover 1915 Time Capsule Hidden in Storage
• English School Caretaker Discovers Medieval Coin Hoard Buried in Playground
• New Zealander Finds Photos in Antique Japanese Sewing Box, Requests Internet’s Help Tracing Them
• Garage Sale Jewelry Turns out to Be Worth $30,000