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Today is Texas Independence Day, which commemorates the March 2, 1836 signing of the Texas Declaration of independence, officially turning Mexican Texas into the Republic of Texas. Though that national experiment lasted only ten years, Texas Independence Day remains an official holiday in the state of Texas, which is pretty much what you’d expect of [...]

Exactly 140 years ago today, Cornelius Swarthout of Troy, New York patented the very first waffle iron. His was a simple model, which sat atop wood or gas ovens, and whose two cast iron plates were attached by a hinge. Though the mechanics of modern day waffle design are basically the same (except, you know, [...]

The manly men over at Asylum inform concerned readers and trashy food-eaters of some especially dangerous foods in this list of 15 Delicacies That Might Kill You. Strikingly, the list goes against the entrenched tradition of proving masculine superiority by vacuuming the most disgusting foods as though they were little more than baby carrots. Arnold Schwarzenegger [...]