Who doesn't love a good holiday? But have you heard of these ones? Well you're about to! And yes, even it's not actually said, it's heavily implied that all of these celebrations involve alcohol in some way. Obviously.

1 La Tomatina (Spain)

This crazy festival is held on the last Wednesday of every August in Bunol near Valencia. Thousands of people pelt each other with tomatoes over the course of an afternoon. Sounds like a fun time.

2 Up Helly Aa (Scotland)

On this holiday people gather in Scotland to dress up in armor and carry weapons. That's not so bad right? They also run around with torches and drink, a lot. It takes place in the middle of winter to mark the end of yule season.

3 Straw Bear Day (England)

A a grown man dresses up in a costume made of straw and dances for beer and food. Yep! After he is finished, they burn the straw. Don't worry, they take him out of it first. This holiday is held every first Monday after Twelfth Night in a British town called Whittlesea.

4 The Battle of the Oranges (Italy)

Similar to La Tomatina, but this time they chuck oranges at each other. At the Carnival of Ivrea the competitors (up to 10,000) line up and throw oranges at other men on horse-pulled trucks who roll past. It takes place in February depending on when everyone is in the mood.

5 Tinku “Punch Your Neighbor” (Bolivia)

Here people dress up and beat each other up. It's usually the men who do the fighting, obviously. The origins date back to when the native population worshiped Pachamama, an incarnation of Mother Nature. It's held in the first few weeks of May.

6 Salon du Chocalat

It's freaking chocolate! And it's not so much a holiday as it is an October trade fair for the chocolate industry. I'm sorry but if there's chocolate underwear involved, then it's a holiday! It's been held usually in Paris, but lately it's moved around to countries like Japan, China and Russia.

7 Basler Fasnacht (Switzerland)

This festival on the Monday after Ash Wednesday precisely at 4:00 am. It lasts exactly 72 hours. The participants run around the city dressed in a variety of costumes to the rhythm of drums. It's very important to the tradition that the people remain anonymous.

8 Cockroach Race (Australia)

On January 26, the same day as Australia Day, people watch cockroaches scuttle around attempting to win races. Okay who are we kidding, it's just an excuse to drink and party. Nothing wrong with that.

9 Monkey Buffet Festival (Thailand)

On this day, the last Sunday of November, people pay homage to the monkey king Hanuman from the Indian epic Ramayana. They do this by feeding them tons of fresh vegetables and fruits. Sometimes it's good to be a monkey. Right George?

10 Peeing Day

This holiday could take place in only area of the world. New Jersey! It's okay I can joke about Jersey, my dad's from there. Which would make me half-New Jerseian right? But seriously, this holiday actually commemorates a victory during the Revolutionary War. American soldiers drove British troops out of Princeton and for some reason it involved them allegedly peeing all over the Redcoats. Who knows if this is true, but every second Saturday of March, people in Princeton engage in excessive urination to show off their patriotism. There was a lot wrong with that last sentence wasn't there?

 

 

Your brain. It's responsible for who you are as an individual and is without a doubt the most important part of your body. Without you would be nothing. And this wonderful bundle of nerves has some really cool things going for it. Here are ten of them:

1 The brain feels no pain.

There are no pain receptors in the brain. Which means that when they perform brain surgery on you, the doctors get to keep you awake. Why would they do this? They need to make sure that while they're tinkering around up there they don't accidently mess up your vision or some other important functions.

2 There are 100,000 miles of blood vessels in the brain

That's enough to wrap around the circumference of the Earth. 4 times.

3 Men's brains are 10% bigger

But don't worry ladies, your brains have more nerve cells and connections in them. And plus, size doesn't matter.

4 Size really doesn't matter. I'm super serious!

There is no evidence that a bigger brain is a smarter one. Albert Einstein's brain was actually smaller than the average person's and look what he did with it.

5 Your brain is the biggest hard drive in the world.

It's estimated your brain can store about 1,000 terrabytes of information. That's 1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes of data. So that does make your brain the best device for storing information. For now...

6 Your brain could power a light bulb

While awake, the 100 trillion synapses in your brain generate about 10-23 watts of electricty. Which in theory that could power a light bulb. I've never tried this personally. But if want to hook some electrodes up to your brain then go ahead. Wait! Please don't do that...

7 Your brain is more active while you're sleeping

While you sleep, your brain processes all the information that it collected over the day. It's theorized that this is what causes us to dream.

8 Lucid dreaming

And on that note, it is possible to control your dreams. People have been doing it for years and there are ways to train yourself to do this. Do a google search on "Lucid Dreaming" and check it out!

9 Some people live with only half of their brain

There are some people who are born with only half a brain or due to circumstances, need to have one hemisphere removed. This can be due to cases of severe epilepsy where the source of the problem is located in a broad area of a single hemisphere. However, this procedure is normally only performed on children. Why? Because their brains are still developing, the remaining half can actually pick up the slack and learn how to perform all the functions of the missing brain matter. Adults can recover as well but it takes them longer. Isn't this freaking amazing! How cool is the human brain!

10 Your brain is greedy

Your brain only accounts for 2% of your body mass but it uses up about 17% of your energy and consumes 20% of the oxygen you breathe in. This is a big deal, especially back in ancient times when you had to hunt and forage every day for food. Every bit of energy was vital. But our brains are the reason why we are the most successful life form on our planet. Now if only we could learn how to put it to good use...

 

 

In honor of Sawyer and Tyler's upcoming drunk collab I thought I would write about the influence that alcohol has had over the years. Remember, always read responsibly.

1  People have been making alcohol for at least 12,000 years. Meaning people have been getting drunk longer than civilization has been around.

2 In fact, many historians believe that farming wasn't started in order to make food. Rather it was to produce the needed ingredients for making alcohol. Yes, booze was a greater motivator than food for ancient humans.

3 And this means that alcohol is responsible for the creation of civilization. More specifically, beer...

4 The term honeymoon comes from ancient Babylon. It was tradition for the father of the bride provide the groom with a month's worth of mead. The month the alcohol lasted for was called the "honey month". This eventually turned into "honeymoon". 

5 Vikings drank too, of course. But instead of a mug or something as lame as that, they imbibed their booze from the skulls of their defeated enemies. Now that's bad ass.

6 Why did the Pilgrims decide to stop at Plymouth Rock? Simple, they were running low on booze.

7 Frederick the Great, king of Prussia, thought that alcohol was so awesome that he attempted to ban coffee so everyone would drink liquor instead. Talk about an enabler.

8 Winston Churchill’s mother actually invented the Manhattan cocktail. It's made with whiskey and sweet vermouth.

9 In 1964, bourbon was declared to be the official alcoholic drink of the United States. Who decided this? Congress.

10 And here is the most important fact. There are 13 minerals that are absolutely needed to sustain human life. They can all be found in alcohol.

And there you have it, alcohol has been a very important driving force in the history of humanity. So on that note I leave you with the immortal words of Homer Simpson. "To alcohol, the solution to and cause of all of life's problems."

 

 

So during my incredibly random surfing sessions on the web I came across a rather interesting tidbit of information. The famous surrealist painted Salvador Dali had a pet ocelot named Babou. Now Dali was a weird dude, but having a pet like an ocelot it turns out isn't that uncommon. So here are some animals that you wouldn't think to keep as pets, but there are people who do just that...

1  Ocelot

Ocelots are also known as dwarf leopards. You can find them in South America, Central America and Mexico. And if you happen to watch the awesome show "Archer" then you know these guys are freaking cool.

2 Tiger

I suppose Siegfried and Roy's Vegas show was just too popular and other people wanted to own these deadly animals. Oddly enough though, they are highly trainable and if you know what you're doing then you have nothing to worry about. Mostly...

3 Alligator

I relaly don't get why you'd want an alligator for a pet. They aren't exactly cuddly. But hey, whatever floats your boat.

4  Zebra

Zebras are actually similar to horses, you can even ride them. I suppose if you were a zebra rider that would make you a bad ass.

5  Skunk 

Now you're just asking for trouble. But it turns out they're actually really smart and demand a great deal of attention from their owners. Almost sounds like a dog, just a lot stinkier.

6  Wallaby

If you've even seen the cartoon "Rocko's Modern Life" then you are all too aware of how cool a wallaby can be. Just look at him! Look! 

7 Fennec Fox

They're technically related to dogs, have the temperament of a cat and are the most social of all the foxes. Meaning that of all the animals on this list, this is the one I would have as a pet.

 8  Squirrel Monkey

They only weight about two pounds on average, but they have really large brains for their size. But be careful, they spread their urine on their feet, hands and other parts of their body to help mark their path. If you have one of these as a pet, I would recommend hand soap, lots and lots of soap.

9  Hyacinth Macaw

This Macaw's beak is strong it can break apart cages. Sadly they are endangered because of dwindling lands and a lot die when they are captured for trading purposes.

10 Chimpanzee

Of all the pets on this list, this ape might just be the most dangerous. They are highly intelligent, very territorial and they have been known to strike without warning. After all, we share about 94% of our DNA with them. And even more dangerous is that they have upper-body strength of almost five times that of a human's. Let's not even talk about all those Planet of the Apes movie either... 

So are there any animals on this list that you'd like to have as pets? 

 

 

Well I suppose "insane" is really more a state of mind. In this these people were just really bored I think and wanted to do something unique.

1 Most milkshake dispense from the nose 

So Sawyer claims to make the world's best milkshakes. That was until we found about a guy by the name of Gary Bashaw Jr. who dumped mixed milk and chocolate power in his mouth and then proceeded to mix it around in there. He then poured out 1.82 ounces through his nose into a cup.  I wonder how it tasted afterward.

2 Most eggs cracked with one hand in one minute

Ross McCurdy was able to crack 32 eggs in one minute using only one hand. And he makes a mean scrambled egg. 

 3 Most Straws Stuff In Mouth

Simon Elmore decided to prove that he was awesome one and shoved 400 straws in his mouth which he held for 10 seconds.

4 Fastest sandwich made using only feet

Rob Williams made a bologna sandwich with lettuce, tomato, cheese and condiments using just his feet. It took a little less then two minutes.

5 Most Concrete Blocks Broken While Holding A Raw Egg

Joe Alexander broke 24 concrete blocks all while holding a raw egg in his hand. Why? Just cause he could!

6 Longest Time Spent Instant Messaging

For 96 hours straight (4 days) Norman Perez sat at his computer typing to set the first record in this category by messaging for 96 hours straight. I doubt anyone will break this record any time soon.

7 Most T-Shirts Worn At Once

 Jef Van Dijck was able to wear 227 t-shirts at once. I couldn't find out why he stopped there and didn't go for 228. Maybe he had already proved what he set out to do.

8 Most Ice Cream Scoops Balanced On A Cone

Now this is just freaking awesome. Dimitri Panciera stacked 71 scoops of ice cream on a single cone. That treat would have given a hell of a brain freeze.

9 Most beer bottle caps removed with teeth in one minute

Murali K.C popped off 68 beer bottle caps in a minute using only his teeth. He probably learned this in college.

10 Highest dinner party

Henry Shelford and his friends celebrated his 30th birthday by scaling a Tibetan mountain and had dinner at 6,805 m (22,326 ft). They ate caviar, duck, and birthday cake. Yum!

I hope these interesting feats of human ability inspired you!

 

 

Because everyone needs a bucket list. Here are ten places you should most definitely check out. Each one of them serves as a monument to human ingenuity and engineering.

1 Lincoln Memorial - Washington D.C.

He was arguably one of the greatest leaders of all time. He was immortalized by architect Henry Bacon in a monument that reminds of just how amazing he was.

2  Taj Mahal - Agra

It was built by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his third wife, Mumtaz Mahal.

3 Pyramids of Giza - Cairo

The only remaining ancient Wonder, whenever you think of ancient Egypt you think of this place first.

4 Stonehenge - Wiltshire

Archaeologists aren't sure why Stonehenge was built or even when. They estimate it was between 3,000 BC and 2,000 BC.

5  Parthenon - Athens

It was completed in 438 BC in honor of Athena, the Greek Goddess of Wisdom. Sadly, it was damaged in 1687 when an Ottoman ammunition dump was ignited.

6  Potala Palace - Lhasa

This was the chief residence of the Dalai Lama until the 14th Dalai Lama fled after China conquered Tibet.

7 Colosseum - Rome

This structure is considered to be the greatest work of Roman architecture. Today it is still the largest amphitheater in the world.

8  Angkor Wat - Angkor

Its name translates into Temple City. Originally A Hindu temple, it was later converted into a Buddhist temple.

9  Statue Of Liberty - New York

This was a gift from France. The robed female figure represents Libertas, the Roman Goddess of freedom.

10  World's Largest Ball Of Twine - Cawker City

Nothing is as awe-inspiring as this incredible work of art. Just look at this feat of engineering. Can I get a hug?

Okay, that last one may have been a joke... But regardless of my bizarre sense of humor, I hoped you learned something.

 

 

There are a lot of "facts" out there that aren't actually as true as you might think they are. Here are ten of them.

1 Antibiotics do not cure colds. This medicine only works against bacterial infections, colds are caused by viruses.

2 Napolean was not short. He was 5 feet 7 inches (170 cm) which was considered quite tall for the time. This myth was started by angry Europeans. Makes sense seeing as how he caused such a ruckus over there.

3 Vikings never wore horns on their helmets. Well their priests might have, but they never wore them into battle. This perception of them started when German operas adopted the look to make everything more "theatrical".

4  It was already a widely accepted fact that the world was round before Christopher Columbus came along. The issue during this time wasn't the shape of the Earth, but its size. Columbus was actually wrong in his calculations of the Earth's circumference. Which is why he was surprised to find the New World and not India.

5 The Declaration of Independence was actually signed on August 2, 1776. Not July 4th.

6 Sushi does not mean "raw fish". It actually translates to "a Japanese dish consisting of small balls or rolls of vinegary-flavored cold cooked rice served with a garnish of raw fish vegetables or egg." So while sushi can have raw fish with it, it doesn't have to in order to be considered sushi.

7  Twinkies do not have an infinite shelf life. They go bad after about 26 to 45 days.

8 The Great Wall of China is not visible from space. No man-made object is.

9 Hair and fingernails do not continue to grow after a person's death. Their just recedes giving the illusion of growth.

10 We do not use only 10% of our brain, we use all of it. There are numerous facts that prove this myth just plain wrong. For example, if we only used 10% then we could suffer damage to most of our brain and still function fine. But even the smallest bit of damage can severely impair our abilities acheter viagra en ligne canada. For more on this, check out this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_percent_of_brain_myth

 So did you learn something from this? I hope you did.

 

 

A lot of movies lose money. It's just something that happens in this business. But there are some movies that for one reason or another, become infamous for making so little money they are classified as a "bomb". Now the movies on this list I personally feel aren't that bad. In fact I even really enjoyed most of them. Sometimes it's not about the quality of the film, it all has to do with the timing of its release and how it's marketing. So take a gander at the 10 movies that lost the most money.

1. 47 Ronin (2013) Lost $150 million
I actually enjoyed this film. Yes it had its flaws,  but I was entertained by it and I guess I’m just a sucker for movies with Samurai, demons and Keanu Reeves. Yes, he's my man crush... Whoa!

2. Mars Needs Moms (2011) Lost $130 million
This is a film that ultimately fell victim to the uncanny valley? What’s that you ask? It’s when something that contains human features that looks and moves almost exactly like human beings but it’s just different enough to cause revulsion to people. In this case the characters looked so real that they didn’t look real enough. Wait, did that just make sense? I recommend reading up on this concept a bit, it's really interesting. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley

But regardless, I love Seth Green, he’s fricken’ Scott Evil!

3. The 13th Warrior (1999) Lost $129 million
Fun fact: this movie was directed by the same guy who directed Die Hard and based on a book written by the same guy who wrote Jurassic Park. It also has this really cool campfire scene where Antonio Banderas learns the language of the Vikings he's traveling with.

4. The Lone Ranger (2013) Lost $119 million
One of Johnny Depp’s rare box office bombs. It wasn’t really that bad. The train sequence was really cool in it!

5. R.I.P.D. (2013) Lost $114 million
The trailer didn't even mention that Kevin Bacon was in. KEVIN BACON! Studies show that if you show Kevin Bacon in a movie trailer, it will make money! Lots!

6. John Carter (2012) Lost $108 million
Okay, so confession. I loved this movie. I was a huge fan of the book it was based on which is one of the very first modern science fiction novels ever written. George Lucas even stole the name “Sith” from a giant bug monster briefly mentioned in the third novel in this series. This is also one of the inspirations for Avatar. There were some glaring flaws in the movies but I don’t think it was really given a chance. It had an awful marketing campaign which I place the blame on for it’s weak performance. But if you haven’t seen it, please give this a chance!

7. Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001) Lost $102 million
I loved this movie too. I grew up playing the Final Fantasy video games so I might be a little biased. But this movie was so ahead of its time that I don’t think the studio knew how to market it. It has amazing CGI in it and I always looked at it as a prototype for some of the effects used in Avatar. Give this particular film a watch (and no I don't mean buy the movie a watch for Christmas, I mean WATCH IT), you might be surprised.

8. Jack the Giant Slayer (2013) Lost $101 million
Amazing cast, just the wrong movie for the wrong time.

9. Sahara (2005) Lost $100 million
This is a classic example of an overbloated budget. It was a fun and entertaining movie, but it cost $160 million to make which is pretty difficult to make up at the box office unless you have an insane marketing campaign behind it.

10. Stealth (2005) Lost $96 million
Only one on the list I haven't seen. Guess no one saw it either...

But seriously look at these movies. None of them were really that bad. I've watched tons of movies and these aren't even close to be considered bad. You wanna see a bad movie? Then check out "The Room". That was so bad it gave me nightmares. There's also this British movie called "Death Bed: The Bed That Eats People". Well okay that movie was so bad it was kinda good.

But there are plenty of bad movies that are that make loads of money. Guess that's just the way of life. Anyway I hope you learned something.

 

 

The Earth is actually a pretty crazy place if you think about it. But how much do we really know about this place that we call home? Check out the list below and you may just learn something that'll surprise you.

10. The earth hurdles through Earth at 108,000 km per hour. Yet we don't feel like we're moving at all since these speeds are constant.

9. The hottest recorded temperature on the Earth's surface was 136 degrees F or 57.8 degrees C in El Azizia, Libya in 1922.

8. The coldest was the Vostok station in Antarctica  that recorded a temperature of minus 128.6 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 89.2 degrees C). Brrrrrr.

7. Gravity on our planet is not distributed equally. Areas like Hudson Bay in Canada actually have less gravity than other regions of the globe. This is because there is less land mass in that part of the planet due to retreating glaciers on the surface and swirling magma deep in the core. So you would actually weigh less there.

6. Earth's magnetic north pole is shifting northward at a rate of about ten miles per year. Eventually the north and south magnetic poles will switch position. But not for a very, very long time. At least from our perspective of time anyway.

5. The moon does have earthquakes, or moonquakes in this case. These events cause shifts in the ocean's tides.

4. The longest mountain range on Earth is underwater. It is the Mid Ocean Ridge System. It's about 80,000km, making it almost 20 times longer than the Andes Mountains. Oh yeah, every mountain in this range is volcanic.

3. 70 percent of the planet is covered in ocean but we have only explored 5 percent of it so far. You hear that James Cameron? You got some diving to do. Youtube link to James Cameron on Southpark.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67MRiMT9cnE

2. The deepest spot in the world is the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench. It's nearly 11 km below the surface of the ocean and only three people had ever ventured there before. That was until James Cameron went down there too. Yes, the James Cameron.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIC22gQfh6E

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1. The Earth is still the only planet we've found that has life on it. That trumps everything else.

I hope you learned something.