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Heading to the airport isn’t a pleasant experience for some passengers. Braving traffic, suffering through the TSA line, and ...

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What a captivating sight. / NASA/SwRI/MSSS/Jackie Branc © // CC BY 3.0 There’s still much to discover about Jupiter, but NASA’s Juno spacecraft has made the ...

Airports are notorious for being crowded around the holidays. / Erlon Silva - TRI Digital/GettyImages Thanksgiving is sneaking up on us. That means extended travel time for many people—with much of it ...

In 1907, an American writer named George Schorb published Riddles and Drawing Room Magic, an illustrated compendium of jokes, puzzles, card games, parlor games, sleight-of-hand tricks, and ...

The Wizard of Oz captivated audiences upon its release in 1939. People fell for the film’s loveable characters, whimsical ...

The woman faced a fine of 110,000 Australian dollars and as much as 10 years in jail. She pled guilty and was sentenced to ...

Before they were called “Mary Janes,” the strappy shoes were known as Buster Browns after the classic comic book character.

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In April 2024, animal control officers in Watertown, Connecticut, discovered two black vultures in bad shape. The befuddled ...

The Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius once said, “be like the cliffs against which the waves break and break.” Here are the ...