WEIRD FACTS
By Ben Coxworth – The X tractor is being presented in commemoration of Kubota’s 130th year in business. Kubota. According to agricultural machinery manufacturer Kubota, there are now fewer farmers in Japan, trying to manage increasingly large amounts of land. With that problem …
By Nick Lavars – A new study has revealed not just how warm our ocean’s have gotten, but that they continue to do so at an accelerated pace. Alebloshka/Depositphotos. Where some consequences of climate change are plain to see, like the bushfires currently ravaging …
ICANN eliminated price protections for .org domain owners earlier this year. Timothy B. Lee – 11/23/2019, 8:30 AM – Enlarge / The word DOT ORG written in vintage wooden letterpress type in a wooden type drawer. elinedesignservices / Getty. – The Public Internet …
By Maarten Wensink – Ask your smartphone how to drive from Copenhagen to Berlin and it will give you an estimate of how long the trip will take, based on current traffic. If there is a traffic jam in Hamburg, say, the extra …
By Ben Coxworth – The Chukka-style skin, getting zipped onto one of the soles. Images: ACBC. – While it’s nice to own multiple styles of shoes, each one of the things has a big rubber sole that will ultimately end up in the …
By Loz Blain – The team’s mission was to install emergency radios at high altitude, but there was time for a little record-setting, too. Daimler. – Mercedes-Benz’s squat little Unimog trucks have proven their expeditionary prowess yet again with the announcement that a …
By Ben Coxworth – How old would you say this one is? jelen80/Depositphotos. – Finding a person’s fingerprints at a crime scene isn’t always enough to convict them, as they can claim that those prints were left before the crime took place. That …
By Mark Holmes – The most disgusting canned foods make Spam look like a well-aged filet mignon. These weird canned foods make fast food look like fine dining. These strange canned foods make Spaghetti-Os look like $100/plate Italian cuisine. From the weird …
How does your grocery shopping affect the planet? By Luca Panzone and Natasha Auch – How does your grocery shopping affect the planet? Well, think of it like this — consuming just one egg emits between 260 and 330g of CO₂ to the …
A separate study shows that binge drinkers are also ordering more rounds. By Stephen Johnson – From 1997 to 2017, alcohol-related deaths among Americans aged 16 and older doubled from 35,914 to 72,558. From 2011 to 2017, the average number of drinks consumed …
