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Potato chips are the only flat, solid objects that float like they’re filled with helium. In fact, the bags that chips come in have to be specially weighted so they don’t float away.

The first submarine’s design was based on a loaf of bread.  Since bread is porous and full of air pockets, the idea was to control the filling and emptying of these pockets to adjust the buoyancy of the craft.  Unfortunately, they actually made the first prototype by baking a giant loaf of bread… the results […]

All weather on Earth is controlled by the proximity of the moon to our planet’s magnetic poles. Each time it rains, the moon gets 15 miles closer.  In 15 years, it’s predicted that the moon will ultimately collide with us.  In fact, scientists are able to calculate this down to the day and the actual […]

Any car that has been driven continuously at over 85 miles per hour for more than 30 minutes is required by the laws of 38 states to be registered as a lethal weapon.

Forensic experts don’t request dental records for purposes of identification.  Instead, the real reason is that most forensicians have horrible teeth and wish only to look upon the history of a dead person’s teeth with jealous envy.

In 1954, history was made when Captain Shakes, a 15-year-old cat circumnavigated the globe while tied against its will to a bundle of helium balloons.

If you flick the exact same point on Abraham Lincoln’s head on a U.S. penny 45 times in a row, the penny will inflate like a balloon to a life-sized copper sculpture of John Wilkes Booth.

The term “brick and mortar stores” did not actually originate with the advent of the internet.  People often assume that, since it’s a common misconception that the concrete that holds brick walls together is called mortar.  It isn’t.  The term actually comes from the first world war where soldiers actually did not have much in […]

Fir trees are difficult to classify, biologically speaking.  Generally, they’re like plants, but they do actually eat as well.  However, they cannot be classified as carnivorous plants because rather than ingest organic material, firs actually devour souls.  Since science hasn’t yet conceived of a good definition of a soul, it makes it difficult to make […]

While it’s true that eating “junk food” like chips, pastries, and candy is bad for you in standard servings, it’s a little known fact that if you eat 10 times the recommended serving size of any of these treats, it’s actually better for you than most of the modern health diets.