Ever since the revelation that Tyrannosaurus rex (T-rex) may have had feathers, most people seem to have built up a knee-jerk reaction to phrases like “scientifically accurate,” as though learning any more about the tyrant lizard king would ruin their childhood memories of big, scaly, tail-dragging monsters. A more accurate vision of T-rex, the logic

When the Columbine massacre happened 19 years ago, it was Earth-shattering. Teenagers carrying out a mass murder inside a high school was unheard-of; it was almost unimaginable. The news was filled with every detail possible for months afterward. Today, though, mass shootings like Columbine are nearly a daily occurrence. That’s not even an exaggeration. In

Today more than ever, we are hammered by information overload. The more facts thrown at us, the fewer we process and remember. Wouldn’t you love to find a way to cut through the clutter to get to the really good stuff? We believe that Listverse does that for you at least three times a day.

Ring-tailed bandit, masked bandit, night raider, dumpster panda, guardian of the galaxy, or whatever you choose to call them, raccoons can be quite the nuisance. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention considers the raccoon a major carrier of the rabies virus in the United States, second only to bats.[1] Raccoons, which can attack if

It may come as a surprise that the practice of a bail bondsman is almost exclusively found in the United States and the Philippines. If a defendant released on bond fails to appear in court, the bond agent is allowed by law to apprehend the runaway in order to bring them to the jurisdiction of

While nothing compares to the pressures of having a real job, life at college is extremely stressful. So it should be no surprise that our parents and grandparents spent much of their university lives blowing off steam and hiding from work. The need for a pressure valve and the fact that students have far too