McDonald’s is widely regarded as one of the world’s most successful fast food chains, but while the company has had many products that have been hits, such as the Quarter Pounder, Big Mac, Chicken McNuggets, and Egg McMuffin, it also had some duds. …

These three pools are so large that you can sail on them, scuba dive in them, and you may even get lost trying to navigate around them. Here are the three largest constructed pools, or more specifically lagoons, on Earth. 1. City Stars, Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt

Missing Apostrophes Geographical place names in the United States rarely have one piece of punctuation — the apostrophe. Since 1890, The U.S. …

How to Cool a Lot of Concrete The Hoover Dam is as tall as a 60-story building and was the highest dam in the world when it was completed in 1935. It spans the Colorado River on the border between Arizona and Nevada, weighs more than 6.6 million tons, and withstands pressures of 45,000 pounds per square…

Baseball is called America’s pastime, but a very different version is played in Finland. It’s called Pesäpallo or “nest ball,” and more popularly known as pesis or Finnish baseball. …

Pick An Ocean The Continental Divide of North America separates the major watersheds that flow to the Atlantic Ocean, Arctic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, and the Gulf of Mexico, and it runs from Alaska through the Rockies and into Mexico. …

What Were the Canary Islands Named After? The Canary Islands are off the northwest African mainland and are an autonomous community of Spain. It would seem that the Canary Islands were named after the bird of the same name, but this isn’t the case. …

The FIFA World Cup Trophy is one of the most coveted and expensive trophies in sports. It is made of 18-karat gold and valued at $250,000. But the winning team of the World Cup doesn’t get to keep the trophy, and players get medals instead for first, second, and third…

An Amazing Palace of Stone Ferdinand Cheval was a rural postman in south France who spent 33 years assembling stones into an impressive structure called Palais Ideal or Ideal Palace. Cheval’s postal route was 25 km long, which he completed entirely on foot. During one of his rounds in April 1879, he came across a…