5 Ways the KGB Kept Tabs on Hotel Guests
Though the KGB denied having a presence at the Sokos Viru Hotel in Tallinn, Estonia, they actually closely monitored the activity of guests and employees. Here's how.
Though the KGB denied having a presence at the Sokos Viru Hotel in Tallinn, Estonia, they actually closely monitored the activity of guests and employees. Here's how.
These are names you’ve been wearing, eating, drinking and avoiding your whole life. Here are the faces and stories attached to them.
When we start singing along to these foreign language earworms, we're probably not singing what we think we're singing. Here are five hit songs in other languages and what the heck they actually mean once they’re translated.
Artificially added nutrients may not make a food “healthy,” but they do stave off several debilitating, and sometimes fatal, diseases of malnutrition. Here are a few of those maladies.
It’s easy to think of balloon twisters as nothing more than children’s entertainers ready to make hats, swords and animals at a moment’s notice, but balloon art can also be incredibly complex. Here are a few of the most impressive balloon sculptures ever
Slow TV? Don't we already watch enough TV? Perhaps, but do we really watch it?
To ensure a happy and prosperous future for a newborn, parents will do the darnedest things.
Sport's most storied trophy, the Stanley Cup, has seen its fair share of abuse—but even so, it's well ahead of these other major league trophies.
Careful where you put that hyphen—here are eight rules from the AP Stylebook that you might never know unless you looked them up.
An interview with Kim Jong Il's former sushi chef reveals wild parties, Beijing Big Mac runs, and an obsession with Iron Chef
Maybe you can help! Here are six appeals from the OED.
First reported in the 1700s, the mental disorder where people suffer the nihilistic delusion that they are dead or no longer exist, that's also called "Walking Corpse Syndrome" is still a mystery.
These commencement speakers said things a little differently this graduation season.
The list of new additions reliably provokes indignant complaints about the decline of standards and ruination of the language, but detractors need not worry. The list actually shows how French remains robust, alive, and in step with the times.
In the old days, all a kid needed to have a good time was imagination, some throwing knives, and a couple of belts tied round his neck.
Would a Great American Novel by any other name be as sweet? Based on the other titles F. Scott Fitzgerald considered for 'The Great Gatsby,' we’d have to say no.
Here are six commanders who were dealt bad hands, but bluffed and ended up flush.
We know what you’re thinking: You’d like to torch every one of those pesky bugs buzzing around your porch light and banging into your windows.
From pranks to unsolved mysteries, let's check out some hoaxes—Alien autopsies! Fairy bones! Left-handed Whoppers! And more!—that people actually believed.
One-of-a-kind accomplishments that are as impossible to believe as they are to fabricate.
Jim Henson’s cave-dwelling Fraggle Rock critters hit the big 3-0 this year. In celebration, here are a few fun pieces of fan art celebrating those who “let the music play down in Fraggle Rock.”
As long as TV networks continue to resurrect beloved shows, there’s a chance for your favorites to return.
Some might say that tree houses are just for kids, but the architects of these innovative homes might beg to differ.
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Right?