And this fascinating chart shows you the typical colors of clothes during the Middle Ages...and the natural dyes people used to create them!
Nuclear mushroom clouds can be so much more staggeringly large than you likely realized.
This ingenious image does a great job of explaining how genetics work...and making you crave gummy bears.
Speaking of a trillion...this fact is wild. Hyperinflation hit Zimbabwe so heavily in 2009 (inflation literally reached 230,000,000% that year!!!) that the country introduced a 100 TRILLION dollar bill...which was worth about 40 US cents.
This chart shows a trick for remembering how many days are in each month (the "knuckles" months are the ones with 31 days).
And being colorblind doesn't mean you see the world in black and white — it's that you have a narrower perception of color.
This incredible image shows just how much a cervix can dilate during childbirth.
This US map chart explains that the American Southwest's climate is like the Middle East's, and Washington's is like England's!
And, speaking of dogs, the asphalt your pup walks on is probably way hotter than you realized.
And, while things are pretty secretive in North Korea, it appears this wild fact is (or at least was) true — their professional basketball league has their own rules, including dunks being worth three points!
What you wear running or riding a bike at night makes a shockingly HUGE difference in how visible you are.
And this graphic explains how gerrymandering works in simple terms...so we can all understand how infuriating it is!
This is the differences between endemic, epidemic, and pandemic...explained in the simplest way possible.
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The Americano came about because Americans in Italy after WWII couldn't handle an espresso and it tastes like a watered down coffee.
In Australia, it is a "Long Black" - made in reverse order and with true coffee flavour.