When it comes to knowledge, we tend to specialize. Learning a lot about a small realm of information is the way to survive in the modern world. We go to school, we learn all there is to know about eng...
Attending high school and university aren't the only ways to learn things. Life, in its entirety, is its own kind of school. In our day to day experience, we may not learn about rocket science or mole...
For those of us who love movies, actors basically become their roles. Kevin Bacon doesn't exist in the public consciousness as a Hollywood actor from Philadelphia. He's the passionate high schooler wh...
For movie lovers, the '90s were one heck of a decade to be alive. It was during these years that dinosaurs first dominated theatres in Jurassic Park, that Buzz Lightyear zoomed into our lives in Toy S...
The 1980s was a great decade to be alive for moviegoers. Many of the classics that have gone on to define modern media premiered during these years, from Star Wars to Ferris Bueller's Day Off to Footl...
Few skills are quite as satisfying as that of knowing the answers to a series of random trivia questions. Even if none of the information is actually relevant in day-to-day life, there's just somethin...
Between its ridiculously entertaining characters and hilarious plot lines, it's hard not to be addicted to Shameless. It took us all of three episodes to get to full-on "TV addict" mode. In the world ...
There are a lot of IQ tests available on the Internet these days. Whether they're testing people's abilities to crunch hard numbers or their knowledge about how certain words are spelled, these kinds ...
We live in a consumerist society. Teenagers hang out at the mall, corporate giants line every strip mall and advertisements adorn most free wall space. Everywhere we look, we see company names, corpor...
If a person says they know everything there is to know about The Lord of the Rings, don't believe them (unless they're Stephen Colbert, because he actually does). J. R. R. Tolkien created a world so c...
Dwayne Johnson has been in no shortage of movies. Heck, he's starred in five films in the last two years alone. That basically means he was headlining a movie every couple of months. How he has time t...
There are three types of superhero fans. Amongst the more low-key nerds are the those who can name all the original Avengers. Then, there are the more hardcore fans who can describe the origin stories...
Most people can pick out a Toyota RAV4 if they see one in line at the McDonald's drive-through, and even those of us who find cars as interesting as math class can usually point out a Lamborghini if w...
There are no shortage of Marvel fans these days. Liking superheroes has become a cool thing to do. In the 1980s, playing Dungeons & Dragons or video games all weekend was something one did not wan...
Even with the aid of the detailed histories in the books and the many comprehensive flowcharts that fans have made available on the Internet, it can still be easy to mix up Game Of Thrones characters....
Almost everyone these days calls themselves a superhero fan. Like diners were all the rage in the '50s and like Bon Jovi was hip in the '80s, these days, superheroes are just in. It's cool to like the...
There are many different breeds of foodies. Some of us go out once a week to a new restaurant to get our foodie fix. Some of us try to sample a new type of cuisine at least once per month. Then there ...
In The Lord of the Rings, all of the characters are highly distinct. From the dwarves to the Elves, every individual in the story has their own background, a unique personality and their own personal ...
In the olden days, before the Internet and before Netflix, TV shows were a once-a-week thing. People would tune in on Tuesdays or Sundays to their favourite drama or comedy, but in the rest of their t...
If there's one thing that defines a weekend well spent, it's brunch. Sure, allotting plenty of time to binge the latest Netflix shows while snuggled up in bed is important, and yes, it's nice to sleep...
