World’s Strangest

Kristina Postnikova / Shutterstock.com The largest country in Central Asia—it’s as big as all of Western Europe combined—turns 20 years old today, and to celebrate, here’s a list of ten random facts about everyone’s favorite Kazakh-speaking ‘Stan. 1. For Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan Borat, the fictional reporter invented by the English comedian Sasha Baron Cohen, [...]

Do the swoon-worthy gas rates companies are charging at the pump these days make you think, “Geez, if only it were 1918. Then, I’d only have to fork over a measly 25 cents per gallon to keep this sucker running”? While a quarter per gallon today would certainly be a sweet bargain, that wasn’t the [...]