Around 1835, ketchup was sold in pill form to cure diarrhea, jaundice, and indigestion.

Well, here’s one thing Denton and Austin have in common: home delivery of corn dogs.

A low resting heart rate in late-adolescent men is associated with increased risk for violent criminality later in life, according to a recent study at Karolinska Institutet and University of Helsinki, Finland.

Geckos don’t have any eyelids.

During her brief stint at Northwestern University, Cindy Crawford made a perfect score on a midterm calculus exam and her professor implied that she must have cheated because she was too pretty to know calculus. She was also valedictorian of her high school.

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