Recently I came across a strange “fact” claiming that it’s illegal to die in the town of Longyearbyen located on one of the islands of Svalbard, Norway… except it’s not true. So where did this “fact” come from?

People get spam emails, messages, calls, spam everything. But why is it called spam? Does it have something to do with the food? Technically… kind of

Why are these melodramatic shows called Soap operas? Turns out the origin of the term ‘Soap opera’ has more to do with advertisements and singing cowboys than I ever expected.

There’s always stuff going on, why can’t we have a boring day where nothing really happens. When was the last boring day we had?

Botanically speaking tomatoes are fruits so why did the United States Supreme Court rule in 1893 that they are actually vegetables?

Spider-Man has plenty of superpowers but one of his most recognizable and unique is his spider sense, but is this spider sense based on an actual trait of spiders?

Are French Fries even French? Probably not and it turns out the origin of its name in the United States is a bit more complicated with a few different stories on how the name came to be.

You may have heard carrots help your eyesight or maybe you know it’s a myth, but do you know where it started? Put down that carrot cuz maybe there is some truth in that myth after all.

Probability can be a mind-blowing thing. Gather 23 people in a room and chances are two of them will share a birthday. Gather 60 and it's almost a guarantee. But with 365 days in a year, how does that work?

Autonomous cars are becoming a very real thing but if it came down to it and the car was put in a position where it had to kill either the driver or a pedestrian, who does it choose? That's the tunnel problem.

Have you ever wondered if robots scream at night? No? We did. Today's question leads us down a rabbit hole on screaming, sleep, robots and pain, and what that strange sound is that some devices make.

Why is it that a picture of yourself can look so different than what you see in the mirror? What happens in your phone or camera that forces a sort of uncanny valley effect on yourself?

Plenty of philosophers have long thought the idea of what reality is. How can we be so sure what we experience everyday is the true version of reality? What about dreams? Dreams have been studied for thousands of years and we still are not too sure what their purpose is.

Sometimes the smallest organisms can make the biggest changes, in this case, can mushrooms make it rain? What about rain? How does rain even... happen? Just how instrumental are mushrooms to rain all over the world?

One of the oldest thought experiments to exist is the Ship of Theseus, it questions whether an item stays the same even if every part is changed... sounds boring to some, but what if we weren't talking about a ship? What if we were talking about you? At what point are you no longer you?