Sweden is so efficient at waste management that only 1% of its garbage ends up in a landfill, with another […]
The prototype for the first-ever pair of Nike running shoes was made using a waffle iron.
In the 17th century, pineapples were so rare that they were seen as a status symbol. They cost $8,000 in
Static shocks often exceed 20,000 volts – over 100 times the voltage of a typical power outlet. They don’t harm
If you removed all the empty space from the atoms in every human, the entire population of Earth could fit
New Zealand leads the world in per capita ice cream consumption, with each person consuming an average of 28.4 liters
For the 36 years leading up to 1916, Ireland had its own time zone, known as Dublin Mean Time (DMT),
Wasps are the unsung heroes of global agriculture. They help protect $417 billion worth of crops from pests each year,
Saturday became part of the weekend in the early 19th century, when British factory owners gave workers Saturday afternoons off
There’s a species of jellyfish that can technically live forever. Turritopsis dohrnii can revert its cells to an earlier stage
