Colossal Questions

Living on Earth, it can be easy to forget that we’re hurtling through space on a tiny rock at mind-boggling speeds. But what would happen if the Earth suddenly stopped spinning?

Diamonds might be forever, but it wasn’t forever ago that diamonds were so rare, they were mostly owned by royalty! So when and why did diamonds become available to everyone, and if there’s enough of them to go around, why are they SO freaking expensive?

We've all heard it before: “if you swallow your gum it’ll stay in your stomach for 7 years!!” Well it’s time we investigate this age-old urban legend once and for all: what REALLY happens when you swallow your gum?

Milllions of people in the US suffer from paraskavedekatriaphobia, or a fear of the unluckiest day on the calendar, Friday the 13th!! But when did a fear of this dreaded day start, and why did it catch on?

Nowadays you can’t walk into a kids store without seeing a clear divide: boys stuff is blue and girls stuff is pink! This is so ingrained in our culture that we hardly even notice it! But that wasn’t always true. In fact, it used to be the opposite! So when and why did pink and blue become “girl” and "boy" colors?