Fool's FAQ

February 1959. Nine experienced hikers cut their way out of their own tent in the middle of the night and walked into the snow without their boots. None of them came back alive.So what was inside that...

11 Sep 13min

Teeth the size of a grown man's hand keep turning up in cliffs and riverbeds around the world. Hollywood took those and built a monster still cruising somewhere in the dark.So what did those teeth rea...

8 Sep 12min

Everyone has heard it. Lightning never strikes twice in the same place, usually said to reassure someone that the worst has already happened and will not come back around.So where did that idea come f...

6 Sep 8min

You finish a normal meal, drink a glass of water, and somewhere in there you may have swallowed tiny pieces of plastic. They are turning up in blood, lungs, placentas, and brain tissue.So are we quiet...

4 Sep 13min

A cloud looks like nothing at all. It drifts, it changes shape, it disappears. So the question sounds like a joke right up until you remember that clouds are made of actual water, and actual water has...

2 Sep 6min

Something happens, and salt water starts leaking out of two holes in your head. It's so normal nobody stops to question it, and from a survival standpoint it makes almost no sense at all. So why do we...

1 Sep 12min

Ask a five year old why the sky is blue and you'll get a shrug. Ask an adult and you'll get a confident sentence with the word atmosphere in it, followed by a long pause when you ask the follow up.We ...

30 Aug 8min

There are something like 100 billion stars in our galaxy alone. Run the numbers and the universe should be crowded.But nothing has ever shown up. A physicist noticed that contradiction over lunch in 1...

28 Aug 11min