
A hippo’s jaw opens wide enough to fit a sports car inside.
A hippo’s jaw opens wide enough to fit a sports car inside.

A new rubber horseshoe from Australia offers comfort, grip, and flexibility—no nails required

Snow gum trees reveal colorful bark streaks as outer layers peel and oxidize at different stages.

A Nigerian fisherman unknowingly caught a rare blue marlin—worth millions—but shared it with his village instead.

Legend says the Chesterfield was designed to keep coats crisp and catch cigar ash in its folds.

A Congolese tradition forbids couples from smiling on their wedding day to show commitment and respect

These common veggies don’t grow in the wild—they were bred from wild cabbage.

Doha, Qatar is the first city to use blue roads to lower asphalt temperatures by up to 20°C.


Erika Eiffel symbolically married the Eiffel Tower, highlighting objectophilia and challenging norms about love and identity.


In 1873, Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis patented riveted jeans to reinforce stress points for hard-working miners.

Triton’s backward orbit hints it was captured, not born with Neptune.

Avocados contain persin, which is toxic to many animals.

Jupiter’s moon Ganymede may have more water than Earth—beneath its frozen surface.

A theory suggests a second moon once orbited Earth—until it crashed into the Moon we know today.

Superstition leads many skyscrapers to skip labeling the 13th floor—though it still exists physically.

Dr. Dre disliked his voice and was hesitant to rap until N.W.A pushed him into it.

Tom Hanks is Abraham Lincoln’s third cousin, four generations removed.

Daisugi is a 14th-century Japanese pruning method that produces straight lumber while keeping the parent tree alive and intact.

The arteries of a blue whale are so massive, a human could swim through the largest ones.

In 2018, a typo at Samsung Securities triggered a $100B stock error—causing chaos and a sharp price drop.

Ostriches have the largest eyes of any land animal—great for spotting danger on the savanna.

Geta sandals elevate feet from mud and once let geishas announce their presence through distinct, echoing clicks