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It is my birthday! This is the vanity post as promised. On the recent update, bassbait suggested a list of my favorite…

Have you ever listened to a song and realized you had never really paid attention to the lyrics? This goes beyond simply…

From ancient Greece, where small fried fish were peddled, to Aztec marketplaces, where tamales, insects, and stews were a delicacy, ready-to-eat street…

The race to colonize Mars is ongoing. However, it is not as easy as sending over people to live in igloo cities.…

Humans have been sailing for millennia, but submarines as we know them today are a more recent innovation. It takes a brave…

It isn’t often that Broadway and pop culture meet. How many regular people do you know who can name three musicals on…

Except for scientists who experiment on lab rats, many people scream at the sight of these creatures or try to kill them.…

We’ve heard about governments taking people to court. But what about the government taking nonliving things to court? As it turns out,…

We’ve all heard of messenger pigeons, or more technically, homing pigeons—birds that can carry messages to specific destinations across exceptionally long distances.…

In January 1920, Prohibition came into effect, outlawing the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcohol in the United States. The US government…