http://youtu.be/XYzXqrChQ6A We can’t tell you how Iron Man’s suit works, or how the Hulk’s pants stay in shape, but we can tell you 10 little-known facts about Marvel. [Alltime10s]

I’m old enough to remember this commercial, but too young to understand at the time what D&D was, exactly. Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, both former Napoleonic wargamers, developed D&D in 1974. The game was based on one of Gygax’s earlier game developments, Chainmail, and incorporated rules and structure from the pair’s experience with wargaming. […]

Here is an infographic listing 50 things a geek should apparently know. The level of knowledge required to have a perfect score is a little broad, but I was able to score 37. What about you guys? [Source: Virtualhosting.com]

From Power Rangers to Pokemon, here are 10 things that make you a child of the 90s. [AllTime10s]

Time to put a few things into perspective: Did you know that Cleopatra was born closer to the date of the first lunar landing than the construction of the Great Pyramid? [BuzzFeedVideo]

All it takes is a simple S to make most English words plural. But it hasn’t always worked that way (and there are, of course, exceptions). John McWhorter looks back to the good old days when English was newly split from German — and books, names and eggs were beek, namen and eggru! [TEDeducation]