Our happy hour fact to amaze your drinking buddies with. Every study on the relationship between porn and sex crimes concludes that when the availability of pornography increases, the rate of sex crimes either stays static or decreases. For example, in the United States, there has been a consistent decline in forcible rape over the last two decades. At the same time, porn has flooded the ...

Last April, we ran a promotional video for a new kind of pizza box, called the GreenBox. The ingeniously simple design of this environmentally-friendly innovation allows for the effortless transformation of what appears to be a clunky old pizza box into four plates and an easy to store (and dispose of) half-sized box for the leftovers. The Digg community agreed that this uber-convenient ...

Our happy hour fact to amaze your drinking buddies with. The tongue recognizes fat, just as it does the five other basic tastes. The five "official" basic tastes that our tongues have receptors for are sweet, sour, salty, bitter and savory (which we just learned about). Australian researchers have now discovered that taste buds also process the flavor of fat as they do the previously ...

Who knew the big, good-looking quiet guy from all those spaghetti westerns-turned-vengeful, Magnum-carrying cop would eventually establish himself as one of the film industry's premiere directors? Well, it's all sitting right there in Clint Eastwood's résumé. Our friends at FilmDrunk report that Eastwood is likely to be at the helm of an upcoming J. Edgar Hoover biopic. Hoover, ...

While it might seem like the metrosexual phenomenon is a modern development, in fact American men have been obsessively grooming the hairs on their heads and their faces ever since the birth of our nation. Join us for a look back on the ways the well-groomed from different eras manscaped themselves from the neck up, in an unending attempt to use their various follicles to get the attention of ...

Our happy hour fact to amaze your drinking buddy with. When under stress, men find women who look dissimilar to them most attractive. Previous studies have shown that guys are typically attracted to ladies who look somewhat similar to themselves. To see if this preference held up under stressful conditions, German researchers had 50 men look at 30 photos of nude erotic models while dipping ...

Our happy hour fact to amaze your drinking buddies with. People who engage in idle chitchat are more unhappy than those who have profound conversations. Researchers bugged a group of volunteers with hidden recording devices and listened in on all the conversations they had over a four-day period. The study subjects also took personality and well-being assessments. Not surprisingly, the more a ...

The best ways to get a woman you've recently met in a bar to give you her undivided attention for a few minutes are either to fake an epileptic seizure or to buy her a drink. Needless to say, the drink-buying option is quite popular. But how popular? We want to know how quickly you go for your wallet when you spot a lady you fancy in a drinking establishment. Read on, for the pros and cons ...

Our happy hour fact to amaze your drinking buddy with. There is new evidence that gorillas occasionally feast on their primate cousins. Gorillas are herbivores in their natural habitat, yet will sometimes eat meat when in captivity. However, recent feces-testing of wild, African mountain gorillas has uncovered DNA from monkeys, suggesting that the behemoths may sometimes feast on their ...

According to our friends at With Leather, "Tecmo Bowl Throwback" is no longer just a rumor. The reboot of the much beloved video game football franchise is coming in the spring of this year. "Throwback" will feature the classic gameplay of 1991's "Tecmo Super Bowl," as well as the ability to compete in a spiffy new 3-D mode. (Because it's all about 3-D these days.) Tecmo ruled the pixelated ...