Back in November, we took a look at the worst inventions from some of history's most famous inventors -- stuff like Leonardo Da Vinci's water-walking shoes, Thomas Edison's ghost-listening device and Alexander Graham Bell's obsessive quest to breed six-nippled sheep (how do you feel about your precious cell phone now?). Perhaps not to be outdone, contemporary inventors have also been up to some ...

Ben Franklin. Martin Luther King Jr. Bill Clinton. Bob Marley. All these great men took a mistress. Or several. And marital infidelity is still quite common, and practically state-sanctioned, among the ruling class of many European nations, especially France and Italy. Regardless of the reasons, mistresses have been all too common in history. So here we take a look at some of the hottest ones. ...

Despite Wikipedia, there are still many widespread false beliefs holding us humans back. Some are innocent idiocy, like that we only use 10 percent of our brains, or that the pinky toe is disappearing with evolution, or that Santa Claus isn't real. But sometimes, they take a malicious turn: Think of those Midwestern folks who refused to go to shopping malls in the late '80s over fears that gang ...

(Updated) Even our most beloved heroes and idols sometimes say things that surprise and disappoint us. (We're looking at you, Tiger Woods.) Occasionally someone might be present to record the deed and blab it all over the world. Other times our heroes pull a Joe Biden and incriminate themselves in official speeches or letters. With the proliferation of social media, expect that kind of thing ...

We got a kick out of our sister site Lemondrop's list of 15 literary characters they'd sleep with (Holden Caulfield? Yep, at least one of us has used that storied name on dating sites.), so we thought it'd be fun to put together our own list of fictional hotties from between the pages whom we'd like to see between the sheets. Read on for our picks for hottest literary ladies. 15. Ophelia Ah, ...

Our world is full of brothers who got famous doing the same thing -- just ask the Baldwins, Mannings, Bushes, Afflecks or Gallaghers (the musicians or the comedians). But once your older or, heaven forbid, younger brother is already famous, how hard can it be to follow in his footsteps? What's more interesting, and rare, are the brothers who make their notches in history on their own, in different ...

Without public access television the world might never have discovered Elvira, Bobby Flay or Tom Green. Robin Byrd would remain frozen in time as a minor character from Debbie Does Dallas, instead of a reliable, if unsatisfying, source of free, unscrambled T&A on NYC TV. What the world giveth the FCC has not always been able to take away, given a labyrinthine tangle of deregulation orders, ...