What is the fastest car in the world today is a unique question with multiple answers. This title is quite relative as there is no authority to verify and qualify a production car as ‘the fastest’ except Guinness World Records. No matter what Google says, rules appear to be made by Guinness. Internet resources may…
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What Happens When you Die? Afterlife in Different Cultures
Even before man could form sentences and make fire, he’s been wondering about the afterlife, about what happens when you die. What does happen after your heart stops beating? We know that the body withers away, rots and disappears, leaving behind a bag of bones, but what about the soul? Is our soul immortal? Does…
Can You Learn How to Lucid Dream?
If you’ve heard about it (and you probably did since you’ve looked for this page), then the prospect sounded so good that there wouldn’t be any reason not to want to experience this yourself. To dream about almost anything you want to, to be able to stir your dreams into the right direction, to keep…
What Is The Ring Around The Rosie Meaning?
Many people can fondly remember a time in childhood where all the kids were gathered to enjoy the game “Ring Around the Rosie” named after the nursery rhyme by the same name. The fun always climaxed with all the kids happily collapsing to the ground as they sang the last line, “We All Fall Down.”…
Are Homophobes Secretly Attracted To The Same-Sex?
“The lady doth protest too much, methinks.” This famous quip from Shakespeare’s Hamlet draws attention to people who overact their opposition to a point of betraying their underlying sympathies. The idea is that some people hide who they are by flaunting the very opposite identity, as loudly and publicly as possible. The tactic is designed…
Can You Really Wreck an Engine by Putting Sugar in the Gas Tank?
Pouring a sack of sugar into someone’s gas tank is almost a revenge cliche. We have all heard stories of friends of friends doing it and seen it in fiction. However, most of us have probably never seen its effects in real life and many people have doubts that sugar can, in fact, damage an…
How Many Steps In A Mile?
Most measurements are absolute. How many inches in a yard? The answer is 36 inches. How long is a football field in feet? The answer is 300 feet. But how many steps are in a mile? The answer to that question is subjective. When trying to answer this question, it is clear that accuracy will…
Why Are Some People Left Handed?
Handedness is defined as the hand an individual normally uses to complete tasks. The world is a right-handed place to live. From a practical standpoint, many tasks are better suited for a person who writes with their right hand. Only about 10% of the world’s population is left-handed. This begs the question; Why are some…
Why Do Alarm Clocks Give You 9 Minutes of Snooze Instead of 10?
Are you a chronic snooze button pusher? If you are, then you’re certainly not sleeping alone. According to a report published in USA Today, more than one-third of the American adult population smacks the snooze button every morning – an average of 3 times. While only 10 percent of Americans over 65 years old regularly…
Has Anyone Actually Broken Out of Jail Using a File Baked in a Cake?
While using baked goods to escape from prison sounds like a hilarious joke only seen on the big screen or pages of an adventurous piece of fiction, there have actually been many recorded cases throughout history of inmates sneaking weapons into prison disguised within a cake. Along with the other cliché tactics of transforming bedding…