Holidays & Events
National Hard Candy Day | December 19
Ancient Egyptians were the pioneers of hard candy, creating honey-based treats filled with nuts and fruit for extra flavor.
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Environment
31 Facts About Ice That Will Chill You to the Bone
Saturn's rings are mostly ice, with particles varying in size from as tiny as a grain of dust to as large as a house.
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Holidays & Events
Why Do We Celebrate Black Friday?
For Black Friday, some retailers inflate reference prices before applying discounts, making deals seem bigger than they are.
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People & Civilizations
Miraculous Facts About the Missionary Generation (1860-1882)
The Missionary Generation revolutionized science, with scientists like Albert Einstein with his theory of relativity and E=MC².
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Film & TV
21 Fun Facts About Star Trek You Might Not Know
Klingon, created for the Star Trek universe, is the most widely spoken fictional language in the world.
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Food & Drink
21 Fun Facts About Bread You Probably Didn’t Know
The French government passed a law in 1993 dictating how baguettes are made, forbidding pre-prepared dough.
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Holidays & Events
Why Do We Carve Pumpkins for Halloween?
Halloween traditions like carving lanterns and wearing masks were brought to America by Irish and Scottish immigrants.
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Animals
8 Surprising Facts About Spider Webs That You Didn’t Know
Spider silk is the toughest known biological material. It is strong enough that some spiders can catch and eat bats in their webs.
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Holidays & Events
13 Facts About Canadian Thanksgiving You Didn’t Know
The Butterball Turkey-Talk hotline in Canada answers over 100,000 turkey cooking questions every Thanksgiving season.
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Film & TV
33 Crazy Facts About the Joker You Did Not Know
The Joker made his comic book debut in 1940’s Batman #1, becoming one of Batman’s first and most iconic adversaries.
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Film & TV
15 Fun Facts About the Great British Baking Show
Every year, the Great British Baking Show selects its contestants from an application pool of over 12,000 people!
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Life & Love
19 Interesting Facts About Schools Around the World
In Australia, kids who live in areas too rural for normal schools can learn via radio and the Internet at the "School of the Air."
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