Brains, animals, and whizzing on an electric fence. We asked the MythBusters for some help with your favorite myths. Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman have been co-hosts of MythBusters for 13 seasons. View this image › David J. Bertozzi / BuzzFeed They’ve filmed more than 200 episodes and tested 960 myths (with about just as […]
Muhammad and Afraa Bilan were afraid for their lives when they decided to flee Damascus, Syria, with their three-year-old son, Nael, and four-year-old daughter, Naya. Muhammad had already been detained by the Syrian army once before and he recently found out they were after him again, so he and his family felt that they had […]
One of the great joys of life has to be exploring other cultures and getting to know their culinary treats. But sometimes, you come across things so gross you just want to crawl up in a ball and weep. Around the world, people drink lizard wine, eat duck embryos, and tons of other weird items. […]
Everyone loves a story with a good transformation, it doesn’t matter what it is. Sick to healthy, sheepish bookworm to outgoing babe (that same bookworm, but without glasses), tractor trailer to Autobot. They’re all great! Transformations inspire us to make changes that matter. The following remodeled homes, regardless of whether they went through subtle or […]
What happens when you bolt together nearly a ton of scrap metal, a dozen cogs of various sizes, several chains, a bunch of springs, a couple of cannonballs, and a bell? Well, you get a contraption resembling something right out of Dr. Frankenstein’s laboratory…a machine with one purpose — to solve a problem that didn’t […]
Weddings are supposed to be amazing celebrations of a relationship shared with friends and family, but overbearing parents can ruin them with their selfish behavior. One woman recently learned this after getting engaged to her fiancé. When she chose her best friend — who walks with a limp due to a birth defect — as […]
There’s no evidence to suggest that pilot whales are more aggressive than other whales, but judging by this encounter, researchers might want to revisit that topic. This snorkeler was swimming with a pod of pilot whales off the coast of Hawaii when they suddenly started behaving aggressively. They shoved her a little bit at first, […]