No doubt about it, we live in a world of rapid change. Whereas a century ago, our grandparents and great grandparents were still getting around in a horse and buggy, and reading newspapers as their only source of information and entertainment1, today we fly in supersonic transports and get our news and entertainment from the Internet-things that would have been inconceivable 100 years ago.

Pop quiz: what’s the grossest thing you can imagine? For many of us, the answer would involve biting into fast food and discovering that what we thought was a tasty piece of chicken was actually a not-so-tasty piece of sewer rat. But such stories are just urban legends, right?

As the old saying goes, “failure to prepare is preparing to fail” and nobody takes this adage more seriously than the elite Special Forces and police units of the world. Along with more traditional skills like shooting and martial arts, many special operations units learn and perfect things that are only really useful in the kind of exceptional circumstances they’ll uniquely be more predisposed to encountering. Things like…

Now, I love Chinese food. I mean, who doesn’t? Weird people who don’t like lots of soy sauce and yummy carbs like rice and rice noodles? But what have the Chinese given to us, really? Fortune cookies? Jokes about children working in sweatshops? I’d like to think that they have accomplished more than that in their long history, and sure enough, they have…

With 9-15 sets of twins among every 1000 live births, it’s not surprising that twins, especially the more common fraternal twins, are well-represented amongst the celebrity population. However, unlike stars like identical twins Tia and Tamara Mowry and fraternal twins Ashley and Mary Kate Olsen, whose twin status is a critical component of their fame, some celebs have twins who are off the public radar. Since right now, people with the astrological sign of Gemini – that’s the twins, remember – are celebrating their birthdays, let’s celebrate along with them with these 10 stars whose twin status may surprise you.

If you ask most fathers, without hesitation, they will say that they would die for their children. Unfortunately, some men have been put in that situation, and with Father’s Day coming up next weekend, we want to honor those men and their heroic actions by sharing their stories. So yeah, grabbing some tissues beforehand might not be the worst idea you have today.

Burger King has become an almost ubiquitous feature of the global landscape. With more than 13,000 locations across more than 70 countries, it’s hard to visit many cities, especially within the United States, which houses the majority of its outlets, without seeing at least one Burger King. However, despite its constant presence on roadsides worldwide, Burger King is still hiding some surprises, including the 10 shockers listed below.

The FBI are supposed to be the good guys, the ones protecting the public from evil. They’ve got none of the crazy skeletons in the closet that the CIA suffer from, and aren’t as generally mistrusted as the ATF. Yet we’re deluding ourselves if we think the FBI really has our best interests at heart. Over the decades, they’ve committed plenty of crimes that stretch all the way from ‘ordinary, everyday evil’ to ‘cartoon supervillain evil’.

If the people in the past knew there would come a time when the major religions would be monolithic, they would probably not see the need for senseless human sacrifices. Human sacrifices were widespread all over the globe and varied in magnitude. Furthermore, the manner in which they were carried out was chilling and not for the faint of heart.

With 9-15 sets of twins among every 1000 live births, it’s not surprising that twins, especially the more common fraternal twins, are well-represented amongst the celebrity population. However, unlike stars like identical twins Tia and Tamara Mowry and fraternal twins Ashley and Mary Kate Olsen, whose twin status is a critical component of their fame, some celebs have twins who are off the public radar. Since right now, people with the astrological sign of Gemini – that’s the twins, remember – are celebrating their birthdays, let’s celebrate along with them with these 10 stars whose twin status may surprise you.