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After billions of years of evolution, the animal kingdom has developed a few tactics for dealing with the Earth’s fluctuating seasons....

I Charlie Brown and his gang of lovable young’uns are bonafide stars when it comes to classic American comic strip characters. Peanuts ,...

NASA streamed a cat video to Earth from 19 million miles away On October 13, 2023, NASA launched a spacecraft on a six-year journey to...

Humans have long sought to control time. While it’s generally considered impossible to bend time to our will, there are two days of the...

As of 2022, there are 7.9 billion people living on Earth — an especially astounding fact when you consider that a little over two...

New York City’s subway system is one of the largest in the world, operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week, in a city of more than 8...

If seeing the northern lights is on your bucket list, you’re not alone. Catching a glimpse of what some call “nature’s fireworks” is an...

The internet may have made spoilers more common, but it certainly didn’t invent them. Back in 1940, for instance, the Los Angeles Times ...

Hollywood was on the cusp of some major changes by the late 1920s. The advent of the technology that produced "talkies" such as 1927's...

By the end of the 1970s, Hollywood screenwriter Robert Towne had reached the pinnacle of his profession by way of his celebrated work on...

Humans have been building structures pretty much since the evolution of our species. Every corner of the planet has seen houses, temples,...

Each November, millions of people around the world grow out their facial hair for Movember , an annual celebration that started in...

In an increasingly cashless society, all physical currency has become comparatively rare: It’s never been easier for most people to...

There’s a reason orcas are better known as killer whales. They’re fierce predators, and they don’t always keep to the water in search of...

Every state has an official bird or tree, but only one state’s governor has declared a state monster. Washington state is home to some...

In Greek mythology , a chimera is a part-lion, part-goat, part-snake, all-weird monstrosity, but in scientific circles, the name takes on...

Humankind’s many attempts to organize the Earth’s movements into calendars and time zones has created some weird anomalies. There are...

The Rorschach test is one of psychology’s most recognizable assessment tools. Created by Swiss psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach in 1921,...

Just after noon on August 30, 1914, about a month into World War I, a biplane marked with the German iron cross under its wings flew...

The culinary world is full of happy mistakes. Whether thanks to unusual weather or broken machinery, some foods that are now commonplace...