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In 2006, Sacha Baron Cohen stirred a lot of controversy and confusion with his character in the movie Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. Baron Cohen’s character was the sexist and anti-Semitic Borat Sagdiyev, a Kazakh journalist who went around the United States testing the patience of its citizens….

As humans, we all have different traits with which we were born. The difference in our genetic makeup does have some benefits, but in other cases, when a genetic mutation occurs, it can have deleterious effects. There is another group of genes that do not cause harm nor offer any benefit to the carriers. People…

Award shows are the gift that keeps on giving. You can always bet that something crazy will go down. And why not? When honoring the very best in the music, film, and television industries, you bring together big personalities and egos. Surely, something is bound to go wrong somewhere along the way. There have been…

The Alcatraz Island, also known as The Rock, can be found in San Francisco Bay, California. The facility served as a federal prison between 1934 and 1963, and during that time, it was used for housing some of the most dangerous criminals in the U.S., including Robert Stroud and Al Capone. Due to the extensive…

Over its 4.5-billion-year history, Earth has experienced five major extinctions already. We are pretty sure you learned of the fifth and the most recent of them—the Crustaceous Extinction, when half of life on Earth got wiped out, including the dinosaurs. In the face of such biological turbulence, some have species remained unperturbed at what the…

Mistakes are inevitable in human endeavors, and as a result, we tend to look past them, make necessary corrections and move on. However, some errors are silly and very costly when made. Can you imagine that as little as a typing fault, communication error, or design slip-up can lead to a loss of billions of…

We are surrounded by colors every day of our lives. And right from the time we knew how to count our fingers, we have been gathering information about colors. However, there are still some people who don’t know colors. Of course, when mixed with blue, you may understand that red color gives purple and that…

Sesame Street is a household name, which forms sweet memories of some people’s childhood since it was first premiered in 1969. Such memories don’t go away; we know it because we were there too. With more than 4,000 episodes, the series have supported kids through ages, helping them learn about numbers and the alphabet. We…

If you are selling something, you must run a smart marketing campaign, which means coming up with a catchy slogan. It can be the difference between a good sales year and a terrible one, regardless of what you are selling. As such, some of the biggest companies have always come up with some memorable slogans,…

Being a cheerleader is a tough job with lots of insane rules instructing them what to eat and wear. They can’t even have a life of their own on social media. Some of these rules are so harsh you will be forgiven to think they are the same as the English royals follow. We got…

The English language has about a million words, which is quite a lot. That means we should be able to describe just about everything using a single word, right? Well, yes, but somehow we don’t know the names of everyday items like cat whiskers, illegible handwriting, or the pound sign. However, all these things and…

Nature blesses us all with amazing bodies. Your body is the vessel that takes you anywhere you want to go. In addition, this is the only home that can be called yours permanently. You may have mastered different tricks on how to use certain parts of your body. For example, you may know how to…

Professional athletes have always shown great physical strengths. They have also been able to display mental fortitude to perform under pressure to the admiration of thousands and even millions of spectators at times. However, these athletes are every bit humans, too, and there have been occasions when they contended with other fierce elements besides their…

If you take a close look at some things around you today, you will realize there is a lot to be thankful for. Can you imagine what life would be like if things like modern medicine, air conditioning, vehicles, and aircraft were not there? One area that has evolved through the years and requires special…

Cars come in different shapes and sizes. If you look at some, you can’t help but marvel at award-winning designs. But when you see others, you are simply curious what the people who designed it were thinking of. Whether it is their headlamps that make them stand out or the number of wheels they possess…

Life on Earth is surprisingly adaptable. You will be surprised to see some of these animals survive in water so hot it would scald any human. Others live in regions there is hardly a visible drop of water. In the Northern Hemisphere, the coming of winter throws wide open the door to terrible cold temperatures…

If you think Nostradamus is the only one who made predictions and got them right, then you are wrong. History has recorded several other people who have made predictions concerning what the future held with deadly accuracy. From science fiction novel writers to the stupendously rich business moguls in the tech industry, there have been…

Going for a swim in a lake in the heat of a summer evening is something everybody would love to have. It is unfortunate to learn that some of these water bodies hold many unpleasant surprises for us when we dive in. Some harbor giant anacondas. Others play host to sharks and deadly poisonous animals…

There are all sorts of bizarre things that nature itself provides us with. You may have thought you have seen them all, but we will show you how wrong you are. If you understand nature and feel blessed because of the things it gives us, then there is a whole lot more you can get…