The days of the arcade games may be just about over, but in their hay day, those enormous monsters were pretty big moneymakers. The stats for the highest-grossing games will blow your mind. Remember “Space Invaders?” By 1982, that sucker earned over eight billion quarters, which is two billion dollars. Billion with a B. That’s over five billion.

If you get stage fright or can’t sing, nothing gets the palms sweating and the bowels loosened like the word “karaoke.” Next time your friends suggest karaoke, don’t bail. Just pick one of these twenty-five songs. They either have about three words, like “Maps” by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, or will get everyone singing like The Proclaimers “500 Miles” and Meredith Brook’s “Bitch.”

Those of you who put celebrities up on a pedestal might want to check this article. It reminds us that celebrities are humans, too. In some cases, they’re humans from much more humble circumstances than us. For example, was your dad a contract killer? Woody Harrelson’s was.

When you hear “bayonet charge,” you probably think of tragic stories from the American Civil War or World War I, not the twenty-first century. But in 2004, a group of British soldiers were caught in an ambush so close and ferocious that they had no choice but to get off their vehicle and fix their bayonets.

Americans tend not to think about potential disaster. Instead, we like to be optimistic. But, with the way the economy is nowadays, you can’t afford to think things will always be rosy. Here are four things you need to be prepared for a tough economic or life situation.

We tend to think of the nerds and jocks as living in entirely different worlds. But these ten scientists prove that even geeks can be sporty. Ever heard of Edwin Hubble? You may know him by the telescoped named after him, but he was also a pretty good shot-putter and basketball player.

Some cultures intentionally and manually reshape babies’ heads into a conical shape to make them conform to that culture’s notion of beauty. Other cultures, like ours in the so-called West, use ugly medical helmets to reshape the babies’ heads to do the same thing. It’s ironic, in a way, that such an ugly medical device can create such a beautiful baby head shape. But not anymore! Look at these gorgeous baby helmets

Did you know that xanadu is a color? It is, and you can see it on the image at the top of this post. You may also be interested in knowing that eburnean is the color of ivory––white with a bit of yellow. If something is fulvous, it’s yellowish brown,

Here are four “magic” tricks you can use to win a few bar bets. They’re all simple, involving basic physics and physiology, but if you haven’t seen them before there is a certain wow factor. My personal favorite is holding a grown adult down with just one finger.

College isn’t for everyone. As a former educator, I feel very, very comfortable saying that. Some of my students weren’t ready for college straight out of high school––I sure wasn’t. Others don’t need college at all. But we’re getting to a point as a society in which college is simply expected. For everyone. This daring Art of Manliness post questions that assumption, and takes a look at eleven alternatives for a traditional four year eduction. Some aren’t as risky––like community college or a professional school––others are a bit more controversial––like becoming a full-time artist or selling real estate. There’s one tip I bet all of our readers will like: skip college, go straight to starting a business.

There’s a lot of myths about the birds and the bees. Let’s just start with that phrase. What the heck do birds and bees have to do with sex? Nothing! Maybe that’s why there are so many myths about sex, because we can’t even talk about it without making mistakes. For example, people tend to think that once they couple up they’ll, well, couple up every day. Actually, most couples only do it a couple times a week or even a month.

You know how they always say don’t tuck your shirt into your underwear? Forget that, it’s wrong. You should tuck your shirt into your underwear. Your undershirt, that is. Bam. Knowledge bomb. There’s actually a lot more to tucking in a shirt than you might think. Here’s a brief video summarizing the longer article from Art of Manliness. It’s worth it to both watch the video and read the article.