7 Facts About Polka Dots
The pattern is named after the European dance craze, but what exactly the dots have to do with polka is a bit of a mystery.
The pattern is named after the European dance craze, but what exactly the dots have to do with polka is a bit of a mystery.
The father of French impressionism paid a gardener to dust his water lilies.
All fried chicken tenders qualify as fingers, but not all chicken fingers are tenders.
The fast talking, coffee-loving mother-daughter duo became a pop culture sensation when 'Gilmore Girls' premiered in the early 2000s.
Some cities are more cat-friendly than others. Here's the hard data to prove it.
The unofficial—but widely known—fashion rule can be traced back more than 100 years to some snobby millionaires.
Animatronic versions of bar patrons Norm and Cliff made two actors named George and John very unhappy.
Nicknamed Ötzi the Iceman, the mummified man was around 40–50 years old when he died in the Copper Age. Here are 13 surprising facts about him.
You may have noticed these weird phone numbers while watching reruns of your favorite ’50s-era TV show—and though they look like gibberish to modern phone-users, they were perfectly normal at the time.
A conlang is a constructed language, where someone has intentionally created its grammar, vocabulary, and phonology. Here are five you can learn.
You can’t spell ‘hearty’ without ‘heart,’ or ‘hardy’ without ‘hard.’
An exploding corpse, a 45-minute car chase, and a horse-related mishap that led to a century-long royal tradition. In this episode of The List Show, host Justin Dodd covers funerals gone wrong.
In 1937, "Doc" Noss found billions in gold in a New Mexico mountain peak. The only thing stopping his family from a windfall? The U.S. Army.
The mutiny on the 'Bounty' has inspired multiple movies, but the 'Hermione' revolt was way bloodier.
Are you thinking about naming your next baby ‘Barbie’? You’re not the only one.
Vocal fry describes a specific sound quality caused by the movement of the vocal folds—and it’s nothing new.
For at least 500 years—and maybe more—pigeon fanciers have bred wonderfully bizarre-looking pigeons.
First dance songs, wedding reception songs … This list has a little of everything.
Here's what financial experts say.
It was once socially acceptable for an unhappily married wife to stone her husband to death while he hid in a hole.
A decade after 'House of Cards' changed the way viewers and critics looked at streaming content, Netflix is still producing some of the most addictive TV shows around.
The felonious ursine has been linked to 21 break-ins in Lake Tahoe, California.
It's no secret that most fast food "secret sauces" are a riff on Thousand Island dressing.
The world is heating up, and things are often on fire—literally. As we do what we can to squelch the flames, check out some old and obscure words people of the past used when they wanted to talk about all things fire.