You might be surprised about the extent that your brain is wired differently depending on whether you think thoughts in Japanese, English, or Swahili.

It's always weird to look at the pop culture symbols we just take for granted and realize how often the origins are somewhere between insulting and utterly horrifying.

It's never widely publicized who did the actual writing, and sometimes it's for good reason.

It turns out the package that some of history's most beloved artists were wrapped in when they first entered our collective consciousness is often the product of several aborted attempts to get their shtick down perfect.

Some inventors get so little credit that we completely forgot about them, and since we really don't like angering the ghosts of people who could probably invent a way to punch us from beyond the grave, here they are.

It turns out that many of the technologies we automatically peg as modern are actually way older than we think.

Some actors find themselves in the same oddly specific situations in different movies. Not because they're typecast, but seemingly by pure coincidence.

Somewhere in the neighborhood of 100 percent of the people reading this think music censorship is stupid.