Big Questions Answered, How and Why

There probably isn't any brandy in there.

The barrels we see around St. Bernards' necks in paintings and cartoons is the invention of an artist named Edwin Henry Landseer.

Chicken fingers or chicken tenders? It's complicated.

All fried chicken tenders qualify as fingers, but not all chicken fingers are tenders.

Phone numbers with letters look like gibberish to most people making a phone call today.

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.

Turn left for endurance, right for enthusiasm.

You can’t spell ‘hearty’ without ‘heart,’ or ‘hardy’ without ‘hard.’

Vocal fry describes a specific sound quality caused by the movement of the vocal folds—and it’s nothing new.

The Mega Millions jackpot stands at approximately $1.55 billion in August 2023.

Here's what financial experts say.

It's no secret that most fast food "secret sauces" are a riff on Thousand Island dressing.

‘For Pete’s sake’ originated around the early 20th century, but the Pete in question may have lived long before that.

It's a wheel. Also a tire. With a rim. And a hubcap.

Get up to speed on your car lingo.

The position he's in could actually increase his chances of surviving a high fall.

How and where you land is one of the major factors in whether you get up from the ground or go 6 feet further into it

The answer is a bit complicated.

There are two main ways for getting a pimento inside an olive.

Until the early 1960s, pimentos were sliced and then stuffed into olives by hand.

Some string theorists predict at least 10 dimensions, most of which humans can’t perceive.

According to string theory, there are at least 10 dimensions of space, most of which are impossible for humans to perceive.

‘Of course’ is one of the most versatile ‘yes’ synonyms we have. But what does it actually mean?

Spoiler alert: This ladybug isn’t actually a bug.

The difference between bugs and insects comes down to more than just semantics. Both terms have scientific definitions.

A baby corn plant and a corn plant are one and the same.

You may have never noticed the extra holes on the sides of your Chuck Taylor All-Stars, but they serve a clever purpose.

When TVs became popular in the 20th century, some people started calling it ‘the tube.’ That nickname soon spawned an even catchier one: ‘the boob tube.’