Tag: the more you know
What You Need To Know About the Different Types of Sugar
Registered dietitian Nishta Saxena breaks down six types of sugar and the best ways to use them.
What's The Difference Between Light And Dark Brown Sugar?
Test Kitchen Director Josh Cohen answers all your questions about brown sugar, including how it's made and the differences between light and dark brown sugar.
Why Do The British Drive On The Left?
One of the most disorienting things about being in England is watching people drive on the left since the majority of the rest of the world drives on the right. What is the reason behind this difference and when was driving on the left established?
Food Scientist Breaks Down Every Oreo Ingredient
Oreos are one of the most well-known cookies in the world, with around 40 billion produced each year. But consumers might not know what some of the ingredients like soy lecithin and alkali-processed cocoa really do.
How To Make A Mummy
As anyone who’s seen a mummy knows, ancient Egyptian priests went to a lot of trouble to evade decomposition. But how successful were they? Len Bloch details the mummification process and examines its results thousands of years later.
A "Butt" of wine?
The butt is an obsolete English measure of liquid volume equalling two hogsheads, being between 450 and 1,060 litres (99 and 233 imp gal; 120 and 280 US gal) by various definitions.
17 Amazing Reasons To Use Wood Ash In The Home And Garden
Watch what happens when you use ash in the garden and around the home! Whether you have a fireplace or a fire pit, burning a cord of firewood yields about 20 lbs of wood ash that can be used in different ways.
What is Wicca?
It was developed in England during the first half of the 20th century and was introduced to the public in 1954 by Gerald Gardner, a retired British civil servant. Wicca draws upon a diverse set of ancient pagan and 20th-century hermetic motifs for its the...
How Is Liquid Egg "Made"?
A look at how liquid eggs are processed at Willamette Egg Farm.
Is there life after death?
Death is inevitable for all known living things. However on the question of what, if anything, comes after life, the most honest answer is that no one knows.
Why do we cry? The three types of tears
Whether we cry during a sad movie, while chopping onions, or completely involuntarily, our eyes are constantly producing tears. Alex Gendler tracks a particularly watery day in the life of Iris (the iris) as she cycles through basal, reflex and emotional...
The Ages and Periods of English History
Do you know the difference between "Elizabethan" and "Victorian"? Have you noticed how many English or British kings were called Edward, or George, or Henry?
A Solid 15 Minutes of Useless Information
There is so much information here you just might have to watch it again.
What's the Longest Word?
Before we decide from a long list of contenders, we'll have to figure out what the word "word" really means...
The Screwed-Up History of English Spelling
The English spelling system is a MESS... arguably more than any other language. How did it get this way?