List of All Articles with Tag 'big questions'

All fried chicken tenders qualify as fingers, but not all chicken fingers are tenders.

The unofficial—but widely known—fashion rule can be traced back more than 100 years to some snobby millionaires.

You may have noticed these weird phone numbers while watching reruns of your favorite ’50s-era TV show—and though they look like gibberish to modern phone-users, they were perfectly normal at the time.

Vocal fry describes a specific sound quality caused by the movement of the vocal folds—and it’s nothing new.

‘For Pete’s sake’ originated around the early 20th century, but the Pete in question may have lived long before that.

How and where you land is one of the major factors in whether you get up from the ground or go 6 feet further into it

The answer is a bit complicated.

Until the early 1960s, pimentos were sliced and then stuffed into olives by hand.

According to string theory, there are at least 10 dimensions of space, most of which are impossible for humans to perceive.

You may have never noticed the extra holes on the sides of your Chuck Taylor All-Stars, but they serve a clever purpose.

When TVs became popular in the 20th century, some people started calling it ‘the tube.’ That nickname soon spawned an even catchier one: ‘the boob tube.’

Technically, they really don't.