Surprising

The French Empire officially refers to the geopolitical entity set up by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1804, though the French colonial empire is…

One universal truth that we, as human beings, cannot escape is the fact that we’re all going to die. It might not…

Medicine is better than ever, thank goodness. And those of us lucky to be alive (and in the right countries and societies)…

Plastic surgery has existed in one form or another for hundreds of years. Of course, 16th century plastic surgery was by no…

If you ever watch life hack videos on YouTube, you know that people are constantly finding cool new ways to do things.…

Status symbols are some of the hardest to understand aspects of any culture or society. What makes any given thing a symbol…

Stand up comedy would be nothing today without comedians making observations about the differences between men and women. And it’s likely people…

How many of us know how the apple got its name, or the onion? We take these words for granted because they…

They say the human brain has a storage capacity that is in the range of 2.5 million gigabytes. That said, our memory…

In the origins of country names, we find all kinds of surprising hidden histories. America, for example, comes directly from the name…