Adam Savage is the former host of Mythbusters, a maker extraordinaire, and the person everyone wants to be friends with (if only because he seems to have unlimited access to explosives). But how much is this lovable ginger worth now?
Read MoreMeet the cassowary, considered to be "the world's most dangerous bird." Cassowaries are closely related to the extinct terror bird, which has a fairly self-explanatory name. They are second only to ostriches in terms of weight, but make them look like parakeets in terms of danger.
Read MoreCentipedes are actually venomous. Orkin tells us that they produce a toxin in a gland behind their fangs, and they're capable of delivering a painful bite.
Read MoreMost businesses, you'd think, would have a name that's meaningful to the titans of industry who created them. In the case of Amazon and founder Jeff Bezos, that's not the case. Let's take a look at how a company that got its start selling stacks of thinly sliced trees wound up being called Amazon.
Read MoreWhile no toxic fruit belongs in a dog's mouth, the American Kennel Club makes a point of saying that "dogs should never eat grapes." Grapes, and their wrinkly counterparts, raisins, appear to be universally lethal to dogs and are liable to cause "acute sudden kidney failure."
Read MoreFederal judge and former special narcotics prosecutor Sterling Johnson, Jr, said of Leroy "Nicky" Barnes, "He had charisma. Have you been in the presence of Bill Clinton when he walks down the street? That was Nicky Barnes." Not a great look for Bill, but Barnes was quite the drug dealer.
Read MoreThe Apollo program kept the American public captivated. It gave us some great film and some timeless soundbites. It also cost $28 billion. In today's dollars, that's around $288 billion. Now, NASA is finally planning to go back. How much would it cost to send humans to the moon in the 2020s?
Read MoreWhat would happen to life on Earth if plants suddenly disappeared? Well, no one would ever have to eat Brussels sprouts again, that's for sure. But for the most part, the outlook for planet Earth in the absence of plant life is pretty terrible. Worse yet, Nature tells us we're already halfway there.
Read MoreJeopardy's Alex Trebek has been handsomely rewarded over the years for helping other people win large amounts of money by answering trivia questions. (Or "questioning" trivia "answers," because that's the whole deal with Jeopardy! ) He gets e a nice salary, but how much is Alex Trebek really worth?
Read MoreThe Star Trek franchise was pretty over-the-top as far as its scandals were concerned. Here are the biggest scandals to hit the Star Trek universe.
Read MoreSome iconic names come to mind when thinking of fast fists. Mohammed Ali... Bruce Lee... Little Mac from the Punch-Out!! games... Amazingly, none of them hold the title of world's fastest puncher. Who does? The answer's about as straightforward as a right hook.
Read MoreIn 2014, Bruno Mars used some of his 24-karat magic to help Mark Ronson strike gold with the megahit "Uptown Funk."
Read MoreCats love to make biscuits. In case you don't happen to be a cat person and have no idea what we're talking about, "kneading" or "making biscuits" is when a cat steps on something soft and then alternately pushes on the soft surface with each foot (sometimes with, sometimes without claws). But why?
Read MoreAiring under the steady hand of host Alex Trebek since 1984, Jeopardy! is a smart game show for smart people. But every now and then, Jeopardy! lets its hair down — or submits to the chaotic nature of the universe — and the well-oiled game show machine collapses in on itself to hilarious effect.
Read MoreThe brilliant Stevie Wonder once described music as "a world within itself, with a language we all understand." In 2012, that language was Korean. That year, South Korean rapper and singer Psy released a K-Pop masterpiece that conquered the internet: "Gangnam Style." But what did it mean?
Read MoreDespite its status as a gassy old fart, the fifth planet from the sun seems like a lot of fun. Fun fact: as of 2018, Jupiter boasts 79 moons, the most of any planet in the solar system. So you could say that Jupiter moons the universe more than any of its planetary siblings.
Read MoreThe truth about the modern candy-filled Halloween is that it was once a religious celebration, and just because it wasn't an explicitly Christian religious celebration does not mean it's Satan's holiday.
Read MoreWho's got the fastest punch in the world? The Guinness Book of World Records seems to think it's Keith Liddell, whose fists were clocked at 45 miles per hour. But those are all wrong, because the world's fastest punch does not belong to a human being, it belongs to the mantis shrimp.
Read MoreAutumn is awesome, and fall colors happen because of chemical changes in the plant, triggered by the seasonal change in weather and sunlight.
Read MoreScience has finally cracked one of life's great mysteries. No, it's not the meaning of life (sorry). It's that profound question we've all spent time pondering: Why do zebras have those crazy stripes?
Read MoreAJ Lee is still doing all sorts of cool stuff. Let's take a look at what AJ Lee has been up to since you stopped hearing from her.
Read MoreSlipknot's history is full of odd events and deep-cutting tragedies, and most everyone in the group has a tragic tale to tell.
Read MoreThe opposite of gorgeous isn't hideous; it's hagfish. "Widely the most disgusting animals in the ocean, if not on earth," per Smithsonian, these appallingly jawless sea atrocities have tentacles surrounding their mouths and tooth-like keratin structures on whatever it is you call their non-jaws.
Read MoreNothing could be more Christmas-y than a Christmas tree. Except that Christmas trees actually have pagan origins, so there's that. "Wait, you mean Jesus didn't invent the Christmas tree?" 'Fraid not. So where did the idea for Christmas trees come from, and what do they mean?
Read MorePillars of flame, floods all across the land, zombies roaming the Earth — we've all considered these things when we think about the fate of our planet.
Read MoreThe Great Pyramid of Giza is awe inspiring, and for centuries we've been trying to solve its mysteries — with the biggest one being the mystery of how the heck anyone managed to build such a thing. We still aren't sure, but we have theories, and we also know how much it would cost to build it today.
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