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6 Deep Sea Creatures That Will Convince You Aliens Exist

6 Deep Sea Creatures That Will Convince You Aliens Exist Statistically speaking, aliens probably exist, right? Like there are an estimated 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 planets floating around–and...

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Why Do We “Go Postal?”

Why Do We “Go Postal?” You’ve probably heard this as some kind of weird threat before. That or we’ve heard it used when someone’s kind of lost their minds or had that final straw snap. [...]

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Are There Animals That Don’t Age? Do We Want That?

Are There Animals That Don’t Age? Do We Want to Be Them? Aging. It’s perhaps an uncomfortable thought; according to the American CDC some 75% of deaths in the US are attributed to those 65 [...]

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Who Was Hugh Glass? The Man too Angry to Die

Who Was Hugh Glass? Remember that time Leonardo DiCaprio was in that one movie about a guy who was literally too angry to die? The Revenant is based on a little more than “just give [...]

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Why Does Boxed Cake Mix Need Eggs?

Why Does Boxed Cake Mix Need Eggs? You’ve probably gone to the grocery for cake mix before. At least some of us have neglected to get the required eggs because we couldn’t afford them, didn’t [...]

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What Would Happen if You Were Born in Space?

What Would Happen if You Were Born in Space? As the human race takes smaller steps towards the stars, we’re probably going to be asking questions about living outside of Earth for extended periods of...

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How Do Lie Detectors Work?

How Do Lie Detectors Work? You’ve seen it in the movies. You’ve seen it on TV. To eschew an entire interrogation scene we just hook someone up to a bunch of machines that beep whenever [...]

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What Is the Biggest Star?

If you’ve ever looked up at the sky, you’ve definitely seen the Sun before. You’ve probably also seen the moon too–but that depends on whether it’s day or night. It’s also quite large in the [...]

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50 More Trivia Facts to Confuse Strangers With

Well last time we brought out a bunch of random trivia facts to impress strangers with. So we figured it was time to hit the opposite end and pull out some trivia facts to confuse [...]

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Where Did We Get Zombies from?

It’s spooky season, which means we get to pull out all the spooky trivia while everyone drills this song into the very core of your being. Let’s get started with a Halloween staple that isn’t [...]

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New Badges: Taking Your Medicine, UN-Believable, and Arizona Diamondbadge

We’ve got a fever — and the only prescription is more badges! Taking Your Medicine: This is the cure for boredom! Get at least 50% on a quiz from each Daily Dose type (Word Ladder, Missing [...]

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Are Vampires Real?

Alright, obviously you can’t go and find Dracula. Nor can you turn into a bat and sparkle with the power of super strength and super speed. While one can dream of turning into an immortal, [...]

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Why Do We Wear Halloween Costumes?

If you’ve ever been confused about people in Halloween costumes, you’re definitely not alone. Every year some of us invest time and maybe money into some festive, spooky scary Halloween outfits, but a...

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What Are Night Hags?

If you have never experienced a night hag before, count yourself in the lucky majority. About 5% of healthy people have suffered an episode of sleep paralysis before, episodes that often bring with...

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How Will the Sun Die?

Well it’s not time to get into the spooky spirit without a heaping of existential dread, right? Apparently it’s not a too uncommon experience for us to have had the existential dread of the Sun [...]

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Why Do We Have Daylight Saving Time?

If you’re a fan of feeling like you have extra time, the whole idea of daylight saving time is probably both the best and worst thing for you. Once per year you get to feel [...]

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What’s Up With Mercury in Retrograde?

About every four months people start talking about Mercury in retrograde–the last time being around October. For those keeping track in the year 2020, Mercury was in retrograde from February 17 to...

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Why Do We Say Goodbye?

It’s one of those things that you say all the time but maybe you’ve never sat to think about where it came from. Well, that’s us. The people who sit and think too hard about [...]

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Why Do We Cross Our Fingers?

Beyond just kind of saying “fingers crossed” to wish a friend luck or physically doing it just now to prove you still could, you probably haven’t crossed your fingers since you were in elementary...

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Does Shaving Make Your Hair Grow Thicker?

If you’ve decided not to shave this November, or it’s quarantine and you have no reason to shave or keep yourself presentable. Doesn’t really matter, we don’t judge. It’s a somewhat common sentiment...

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