"If you like my train set, and you think it's sexy, Come on, sugar, tell me so" -- Perhaps this is how Rod Stewart's hit song should have gone after he recently revealed he's been hard at work building a model train set for the past 26 years.
Read MoreFor many cat owners, there are three unavoidable constants in life: Death, taxes, and the fact that their feline friend will try to drink from the sink whenever it gets a chance. Let's find out why cats like to drink from a sink!
Read MoreIf whales didn't exist, Jonah might have had to spend three days in the belly of an obese goldfish, which sounds super cramped. If these gargantuan animals vanished from existence, the world -- and the ocean -- would be in much worse shape.
Read MoreBeck has been responsible for some of the most inventive and boundary-pushing music of the last 25 years. There's just nothing Beck can't do, it would seem.
Read MoreIt's natural to feel a calling to commune with all things green. But just how much green would you be willing to shell out to have a special plant for yourself? In terms of the most expensive plant in the world, it'll cost you seven figures.
Read MoreBruce Lee and Jet Li are two of the most legendary silver screen warriors in history. Which begs the obvious question: Who would win in a fight?
Read MoreLife for many people in the Western world has become increasingly devoid of meaning. But just when you might have called it quits at work, sold your car and bought a ticket to Timbuktu, something happened. A puppy... nay, a savior was born. Not just any puppy -- a unicorn puppy dog.
Read MoreThe domain of science fiction is shrinking into science fact -- the same week we learned you can make vodka from carbon dioxide, the company Air Protein has announced it can make a form of meat from thin air.
Read MoreAt different times in history, a variety of materials have held the featherweight crown, with one in particular largely determined to be the lightest. Now, understand ahead of time, you won't be able to make furniture out of this stuff, but the world's lightest material is amazing in its own right.
Read MoreSo the common knowledge goes like this: a dog ages seven years for every one year they're gracing us with their presence. Maybe it's our fault for being so difficult to live with, but who's to say? Are dog years real or full of balogna?
Read MoreTim Burton isn't immune to weird Hollywood drama. You don't make incredible movies like Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, and Mars Attacks! without a few weird things happening. Here are some bizarre things that happened on the set of Tim Burton movies
Read MorePerhaps the closest thing the modern world has to the Roman Colosseum is the NFL arena, which is way less extreme. But there's one respect in which the NFL is way more extreme than ancient Rome's meat grinder: stadium costs. Here's how much it would cost to build the Roman Colosseum today.
Read MoreIf you're itching for a chicken that you can comfortably smuggle through airport security in your fanny pack, boy, have we got great news for you. Look upon the Serama, a breed of Kentucky fried excellence coming to you from Malaysia. The Serama came here to do two things: be small and act big.
Read MoreWhether you're a Keno player chain smoking at your local casino or just someone who fell asleep watching Jeopardy, you're probably very much aware that Wheel of Fortune is still on the air. But you might be surprised at just how much Pat Sajak and Vanna White make per year.
Read MoreIn what's being hailed as a moment of triumph for those of us who were going to show up stoned anyway and a virtual guarantee that nobody will have to take home any leftover bean dip, workplaces around the U.S. are hiring marijuana dispensaries to cater their holiday parties.
Read MoreIn the Marshall Islands, the so-called "tomb" that America encapsulated its nuclear waste inside is threatening to crack because of rising sea levels.
Read MoreEgypt was a very cosmopolitan culture with a diverse mix of ethnicities. In fact, there was a time when Egypt's rulers were black, hailing from the kingdom of Kush, located in modern-day Sudan and Upper Egypt. Why don't more people know about Egypt's black pharaohs?
Read MoreAh, Chuck Norris! The bearded, roundhouse-kicking Texas Ranger who sparked a thousand memes. One of his main things has always been Karate, and how extremely good he's supposed to be at it. But Is he really a Karate champion at all?
Read MoreBill Gates is one of the richest people in the world. So you might wonder how much money he would have to spend each day to, say, go broke in a year.
Read MoreDinosaurs have been capturing the human imagination for centuries with their remarkable size, variety, and unceasing perseverance when determining whether or not someone is the mama. And as for the largest? Well, it's a funny story.
Read MoreHorses have always been cash cows for people who have a need for speed. Those people are called jockeys, they use horses as their wingmen, and they fly around the track like Pegasuses hopped-up on speed. Which horse breed is most likely to leave you riding high at the end of the race?
Read More"Mouth-fighting" sounds like one of the oddly violent sports metaphors people use in reference to French kissing. But here the term describes battles between tiny underwater worms that live off the coast of Japan which produce one of the loudest, least affectionate sounds in the ocean.
Read MoreHis net worth is estimated to be a very respectable amount for a person who pretends to wrap people into pretzels for a living.
Read MorePop culture paints a grim image of the medieval executioner. So naturally, all the bloodthirsty brutes of the Middle Ages were practically foaming at the mouth in excitement and leapt at the chance to kill for a living, right? Wrong -- dead wrong, in fact.
Read MoreThe world's biggest ocean jackpot is Spanish galleon San José. Sunk in 1708, the ship may contain the biggest sunken treasure on Earth.
Read MoreJackie Chan has dished out acrobatic beatdowns with punches, kicks and the occasional stepladder in over 140 movies, so it makes sense to assume that the man knows his way around a Kung Fu fight. Let's look at the ultimate tale of the tape: How many black belts does Jackie Chan have?
Read MoreCow tipping has been a mainstay of the rural coming-of-age hijinks experience for decades, which begs the questions "what?" and "seriously?" and "is life in the wide open spaces of America's heartland really so dull that forcibly rotating livestock 90 degrees passes for entertainment?"
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