Ryan Menezes
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5 Misunderstandings We Got Thanks to Explorers Being Dumbasses
Hey, maybe ask a couple quick follow-ups about the place. That can clear a lot up → Read More
Someone Won a Tropical Resort in a Raffle, and Has Run the Place for Six Years
In 2016, the owners of a resort in Micronesia decided they were ready to retire. Doug and Sally Beitz had spent 20 years building up and running the Nautilus Resort on a tropical island. It had been a good life, but they were ready to return to their home of Australia to be closer to their grandchildren. The obvious choice was to sell the place to some big international chain. But they didn’t do… → Read More
The Story of the Worst Airline Food Ever
In 1975, Japan Airlines flew a special flight for salesmen from Coca-Cola. The men and their wives had won a company contest and were now bound for a fabulous vacation in Paris. Their plane took off from Tokyo and made a couple quick stops in Anchorage and Copenhagen. On the way, the crew served some basic meals: omelets for breakfast and sandwiches, all picked up during the Alaska stop. Then… → Read More
Banking Employees Have to Take Vacations, So Coworkers Can Spot Their Fraudulent Activity
This company is like a family! In that we suspect you will rob us → Read More
Fast Food Fries Taste Worse Because of One Angry Customer
He meant well, but he ended up ruining everything for the rest of us → Read More
The Pope Who Believed Drinking Breast Milk Would Save His Life
Hey, if the Pope said it’s true, who are we to question him → Read More
A Guy Ate A Pepper So Hot That It Ripped A Hole in His Throat
The ghost pepper, also known as bhut jolokia, is one of the hottest chilies in existence. It scores more than one million on the Scoville heat scale, which should tell you... well, not much of anything because spiciness can’t actually be measured using numerical units. So just picture the spiciest chili you can imagine, and we’ll say this is way hotter. All of which brings us to our story about… → Read More
A Whole Village Lost Power So One Guy Could See His Girlfriend
He turned down the power, so he could turn up the romance. → Read More
Jelly Belly Used To Be An Obscure Delicacy
Reagan liked high-class beans, the media told America. → Read More
Pearl Harbor Shipwrecks Are Still Leaking Oil 80 Years Later
The upside: pretty oil rainbows. → Read More
The CIA Hounded A Reporter Till He Died
He was the guy who wrote about how cocaine came to Los Angeles → Read More
Beekeeping Hasn’t Changed in Nearly 200 Years
Beekeeping existed for thousands of years before finally getting jumpstarted. The practice goes back to ancient Egypt — in general, if humans have been doing something seemingly advanced for longer than we've been keeping records, there’s a good chance it began in ancient Egypt. At first, people kept bees by cultivating hives in baskets. To avoid hundreds of angry stings, keepers scared the bugs… → Read More
The Stockholm Syndrome Kidnapper Turned Himself In Years Later, And No One Cared
A couple days ago, we were talking about Stockholm syndrome and the original hostage situation that gave birth to the term — 1973’s Norrmalmstorg robbery. Jan-Erik Olsson and his gang of bandits took control of a Stockholm bank and kept hostages in the vault for almost a week. By the end of it, the hostages refused to testify against their captors and even wanted to leave the bank with them… → Read More
A Thanksgiving Day Balloon Sent A Woman Into A Coma
Curse you, Cat in the Hat! → Read More
Stockholm Syndrome Kinda Isn’t A Thing
How will we diagnose movie characters now? → Read More
The Post Office Regretted Designing This Anti-Drinking Stamp
In 1981, alcoholics faced tremendous stigma, said the National Council on Alcoholism, even as alcohol itself remained as popular as ever. Call someone an alcoholic, and that was more of a moral condemnation than a statement of their condition. The NCA wanted to change people’s minds to make them think of it as a disease, a disease that can be treated and where no one’s tempted to assign blame.… → Read More
The CIA Hounded A Reporter To Death
He was the guy who wrote about how cocaine came to Los Angeles. → Read More
A College Photoshopped A Student Into A Football Game And Got Sued
So, that Scrubs joke was based on a real story. → Read More
Baby Koalas Eat Something Truly Disgusting
it comes out of their mother, and not out the nipples. → Read More
15 Electric Speckles Of Trivia We Learned This Week
Being a twin is a license to commit crimes, with Arnold. → Read More