The Mercator projection, the world map we all know, is missing parts of the world because it is cropped at both ends. If you uncrop the bottom, here is the part you don't normally see.

Parkinson's law states: 'Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.' Which means that if you have an assignment due to next week, the assignment will only be finished next week.

My recent trip to Beijing saw me exposed to most of the common scams Beijing has to offer...

Some historians consider England’s Scilly conflict to be the longest war in known history, dragging on for a staggering 335 years.

In 1986, he wrote a leaflet for the Sandwell Health Authority entitled Measles: A Dangerous Illness, which tells Olivia’s story and provides a swift and well-supported argument for universal vaccination against the disease.

The last star in the universe will be a red dwarf. Red dwarfs in general might be great places to look for aliens – or planets for humans to find a new home after our solar system has died. Support us on Patreon so we can make more stuff (and get cool wallpapers): https://www.patreon.com/Kurzgesagt?ty=h

Many, many more Americans would qualify for income-driven repayment plans, if only they knew about them.

The Nine Nations of North America is a book written in 1981 by Joel Garreau. In it, Garreau suggests that North America can be divided into nine nations, which have distinctive economic and cultural features. He also argues that conventional national and state borders are largely artificial and irrelevant, and that his "nations" provide a more accurate way of understanding the true nature of North American society.

Flora Call Disney (April 22, 1868 – December 6, 1938) was the mother of Walt Disney and his brother Roy Disney.

Smash is the third studio album by American punk rock band The Offspring. After touring in support of their previous album, Ignition (1992), The Offspring began recording Smash in October 1993 at Track Record in North Hollywood, California. Recording and production were finished two months later, and the album was released on April 8, 1994 on Epitaph Records.

Check out a few of our favorites—and never look at a wedding ceremony the same way again!

Directed by Tom Steeber. With Tom Steeber. A novelty video. The most boring movie ever made. Ninety minutes of watching paint dry.

The Trevi Fountain (Italian: Fontana di Trevi) is a fountain in the Trevi district in Rome, Italy, designed by Italian architect Nicola Salvi and completed by Pietro Bracci. Standing 26.3 metres (86 ft) high and 49.15 metres (161.3 ft) wide,[1] it is the largest Baroque fountain in the city and one of the most famous fountains in the world. The fountain has appeared in several notable films, including Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita.

Sergei Konstantinovich Krikalev (Russian: Серге́й Константинович Крикалёв, also transliterated as Sergei Krikalyov; born August 27, 1958) is a Russian cosmonaut and mechanical engineer. As a prominent rocket scientist, he is a veteran of six space flights and ranks second for the amount of time in space: a total of 803 days, 9 hours, and 39 minutes. He retired from spaceflight in 2007 and is currently working as vice president of Space Corporation Energia.

Since the 1970s, doctors around the world have reported cases in which young kids regrow fingertips if an accident leaves some of the fingernail. Now scientists have figured out how this lizard-like regeneration happens in mice and suspect the same mechanism works in young humans.

I've used the term Yak Shaving for years. You're probably shaving yaks at work all the time and don't realize it. The ...

Michael John Douglas (born September 5, 1951), better known by his stage name Michael Keaton, is an American actor, producer, director and comedian. He is currently a visiting scholar at Carnegie Mellon University.[1]

... and he was rewarded for it.