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Although seemingly unnatural and cannibalistic, feeding eggs and/or shells to chickens is an efficient way to recycle nutrients as oophagy (pronounced “oh-off-uh-jee”), meaning “egg consumption” in Greek, is a common practice for non-domesticated chickens. In the wild, hens instinctively consume broken egg shells, primarily for their calcium, and their contents within to recl...

William Shakespeare’s love of the English language propelled him to invent many new words and phrases including “bedroom”, “zany”, “gossip” (technically he was the first one to use it as a verb), “invulnerable”, “lustrous”, “fashionable”, “monumental”, “eyeball”, “savagery”, and “lonely”. Shakespeare also invented the English phrases “to wait with bated (abated) breath”, “to ...

The current U.S. White House is less than 85 years old as of 2026 as it was extensively remodeled, rebuilt, and retrofitted after the completion of World War II, primarily spearheaded by then U.S. President Harry Truman, who effectively had the entire complex gutted by replacing its wood frame substructure with concrete and steel, as …

The moon has a thin atmosphere, classified as an “exosphere”. It’s not an atmosphere like the Earth’s, it’s more of an ethereal cloud of individual atoms drifting above the lunar surface. The pressure upon the moon is so low, approximately 10⁻¹² (10^{-12} or 0.000000000001 or 1 trillionth) in comparison to that of the Earth’s at …

For the majority of the 20th century, news media was not designed to compete for viewer attention and/or network ratings. Throughout the mid 20th century, news media primarily aired during fixed time schedules, focused upon verified and evidence based narratives, and functioned more akin to a public service rather than a private business model designed …