Five Minute Trivia
Bite-sized bursts of knowledge to make you smarter. Five minutes at a time.
Five Minute Trivia
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Mercury (the planet)
The name Mercury has gotten attached to a lot of things--an element, a car company, a WNBA team--but the OG is the planet closest to the sun, named after the Roman god. This hot, barren, lifeless (or so we think) world may not seem like it' has...
Five Minute Lit: The Odyssey
The Odyssey has been called the greatest work of literature ever written. Which is pretty remarkable because we know nothing about the guy who wrote it. Or even if he exists. Also, it's the rare sequel that's better remembered than the original...
Area 51
Area 51 is likely the most famous place in the world that you're not supposed to know about. It's part of countless alien movies, conspiracy theories, and often some combination of both. So what is it? Where is it? What really goes on there? An...
Einstein's General Relativity
In 1907, Albert Einstein had a thought experiment involving an unlucky window cleaner. It led to a scientific breakthrough that finally gave us an understanding of gravity, space, time, and the fabric that holds it all together. This was his th...
