Dan Seitz

The heat of a pepper is measured in Scoville units. Your typical habanero, one of the hotter peppers currently widely available, runs 100,000 Scoville units. Also 100,000 Scoville units? Naga Chili Vodka. And these total suckers brave souls actually tried it.

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Eighty years is a long time to wait, but for Ann Colagiovanni, the wait was worth it. This 97-year-old grandma’s road to a diploma spans eight decades and is simultaneously incredibly sad and utterly heartwarming.

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Many parents insist their child is a genius. Emmelyn Roetteger, however, has the paperwork to prove it. She scored a 135 on an IQ test, and was thus accepted into MENSA.

She is, on the other hand, still a toddler, as this bit from the Today Show shows us.

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Sinking a ten-foot putt is tricky. Even professional golfers can’t land it 100% of the time. And they have to do it on steady ground, something this 59-year-old just can’t be bothered with.

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Parkour is, of course, people performing gymnastics in urban environments, and also a dead fad. How do we revive this dying fad? By doing it on a bicycle, of course!

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We could try and describe this, but it’s pretty much impossible. It’s a man, a harmonica, and two whips. And he makes music.

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There are many important questions in life. Why are we here? What’s life all about?

If the 1989 Batmobile and the 1966 Batmobile got in a race, who would win? Now, we have an answer.

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Shaving. All men have to shave and most are adults about the process. They have the scissors, the razor and the shaving creams and they get it done. But, just like everything else, there's been a sad, creepy effort to make shaving more expensive by convincing you there's crap you need to use to get “the perfect shave.” We understand p

You probably won’t be surprised about this, but Jeremy Lin would rather have control over his name. And following his astronomical rise to fame, there’s been a just as astronomical rise in pirate Linsanity merchandise. But can he trademark his own name?

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Plaid used to be tacky. Now it’s an acceptable pattern for people besides lumberjacks and people pretending to be lumberjacks in skits about lumberjacks.  Still, you can be too attached to something, as this video demonstrates.

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