The Most Popular Exercise Fad the Year You Were Born
For decades, many Americans have been obsessed with the idea of getting the perfect body. Each year, people strive to make themselves look like models and actors, or just to ...Read Full Story »
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25 Hardest Teams to Root For
Watching a beloved sports team win a championship is one of the great joys in life, as years of cheering -- and suffering -- with the team finally pay off ...Read Full Story »
42 Most Outrageous Product Claims of All Time
It can be a daunting challenge for consumers to separate true advertising claims from false ones. That is especially difficult given the spending power merchants put behind advertising campaigns meant ...Read Full Story »
15 Commercial Products Invented by the Military
The U.S. military spent over $42 billion in research and development in 2018. Though much of this funding tends to go to weapons programs, a great deal of military R&D ...Read Full Story »
Richest Town in Every State
Home to just 4% of the world’s population and nearly 25% of global economic activity, the United States is one of the richest countries in the world. This wealth tends ...Read Full Story »
37 Most Successful Athletes of the 21st Century
Every professional athlete's ultimate goal each season is to bring home the championship. Some players work tirelessly every year of their career but are never able to raise a trophy. ...Read Full Story »
Best Athletes Drafted in the Last Round
In sports, every championship team can be traced back to smart drafting. Teams that can identify great players that others miss have a leg up on the competition. Anyone can ...Read Full Story »
12 Worst States for Lyme Disease
Though it is not one of the most feared infections in the United States, Lyme disease is a debilitating, sometimes fatal infection passed to humans by infected blacklegged ticks. There ...Read Full Story »
Most Famous Baby Births in History
Before the creation of modern nations and the advent of mass media, the most anticipated births in a given society were usually royalty births. That’s because in many countries the ...Read Full Story »
Longest Wars in History
For as long as humans have existed, they have been in conflict. The earliest evidence of two different factions fighting one another to the death dates back at least 4,700 ...Read Full Story »
30 Largest Worker Strikes in American History
American labor unions in recent years have made headlines by striking to demand better pay and working conditions. Teachers unions in at least seven states went on strike in 2018 ...Read Full Story »
30 Largest Worker Strikes in American History
American labor unions in recent years have made headlines by striking to demand better pay and working conditions. Teachers unions in at least seven states went on strike in 2018 ...Read Full Story »
Worst Trades in Sports History
Professional sports teams use trades to improve their roster and prepare for the future -- whether by trading a few key players to push an above-average squad to become a ...Read Full Story »
How Your State Was Founded
Since the United States of America declared its independence from the British Empire, every state has carved out its own individual identity, with a different cultural mix and a ...Read Full Story »
The 40 Most Disappointing Draft Picks of All Time
After the NFL season ends, teams turn their attention to the new crop of young players that will soon be joining the league via the NFL Draft. Franchises look for ...Read Full Story »
