Since it was founded in 2004, Facebook has spent over $22 billion on disclosed acquisitions. We’ve all heard about the $19B they spent on WhatsApp, $2B on Oculus, and $1B on Instagram, but there were some smaller purchases totaling $426 million as well. Last year the entire country of Honduras brought in a total of …

Planning a trip during the NHL playoffs and wondering where it is and is not safe to wear your jersey?

Since we always believe in safety first (ha!), check out this map from Facebook showing which teams rule the different parts of North America.

You know what you really need after falling off a raft into chilly water? A sauna, that’s what, and it turns out some clever Finns built one themselves, because awesomeness like this cannot be mass produced.

Scroll through a Facebook feed any day of the week, and you’re bound to find exhortations to live each day to the fullest, but few of us have gone to the lengths Peter Freuchen did to fulfill that goal. Here’s just a brief taste from Jason Kottke: Standing six feet seven inches, Freuchen was an …

Wondering whether your attempts to spread joy throughout the world via Twitter are working? The results of an interesting study from China’s Beihang University on how effective certain emotions are on social media have just been released, and while your warm fuzzies do show a tendency to spread, anger is far more likely to be …

“Many view their social media pages as a place where they can voice their opinions and show off pieces of their lives. However, there’s a fine line between being you and being annoying, especially on Facebook and Twitter, where it’s harder for someone to tell your tone.” Wondering what can cause people to unfriend, block, …

Having second thoughts about posting that 100th selfie taken in the bathroom? Looking for guidance? Look no farther than this helpful and humorous flowchart from Photoworld and post (or not) with confidence! Via Photoworld. So many decisions on Facebook.

Researchers at MIT wanted to learn how well brands perform marketing on FaceBook and set about coding more than 1000 wall posts from 98 global brands. They have learned 8 ways that brand managers can increase the number of “likes” that a post receives. Here are the first 3. For the other 5, check out …

The reigning wisdom says that everyone’s a little Irish on St. Patrick’s Day, but if you don’t happen to be an O’ Something, no worries thanks to this handy list floating around on Facebook on how to find your leprechaun name. Full story at Pride of the Irish @ Facebook via Girls Guide to Beta. …

Who doesn’t want to make the world a better place? While we may vaguely wish for world peace or flippantly post cliches about change on Facebook, Inc’s Jeff Haden has eight incredibly powerful yet simple phrases to put into action at work and in our everyday lives that can make an enormous difference where it …

In some countries of the world (the US, in this particular case), hospitals can range widely in terms of quality. And from a patient’s point of view, discovering facts such as how hospitals perform and how patients feel about their experience, can be problematic. From patient satisfaction to mortality rates, stats can be hard to …