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The space agency now has an official division for investigating reports of flying objects.

Precursors to the story about the girl with the green ribbon were written by Washington Irving, Alexandre Dumas, and more famous authors.

A detail of Édouard Manet's ‘Le Déjeuner sur l’Herbe’

Today, ‘Luncheon on the Grass’ (or ‘Le Déjeuner sur l’Herbe’) is regarded as 19th century French painter Édouard Manet's greatest triumph.

If you want fast service from McDonald's, avoid going during the turn over from breakfast to lunch.

Cats and “Pspsps” go together like toddlers and the crinkling wrapper of a candy bar that you were trying to eat in secret. What gives?

There's no easy way to say it, but your Fitbit might have a little poop on it.

All five answers to the questions below have something in common. Can you figure it out?

The last half-century or so has given us some of the best musical movies of all time.

‘Fuksheet’ is another word for a sail on the foremast of a ship.

To paraphrase Krusty the Clown, comedy isn’t dirty words—it’s words that sound dirty. Here are 50 of them.

We debunk myths from the last decade of the 20th century, from fraudulent Furby fears to some misinformation around the era’s most famous trial.

The Castle of Magical Dreams in Hong Kong Disneyland.

Mystic Manor in Hong Kong Disneyland manages to honor the original Haunted Mansion ride while respecting cultural sensitivities at the same time.

Make your parking lot party even better with these tailgating must-haves.

You’ll have everything you need for the season with top-rated tailgating essentials like coolers, pop-up tents, and more.

It’s helpful to have a reliable appetizer recipe in your back pocket, and these corn fritters with chipotle aioli are hard to beat.

Tin foil and aluminum foil are not the same thing.

Kate Beckinsale stars in 'Underworld' (2003).

The movie, which hit theaters September 19, 2003, was a surprise hit: It was made for $22 million but grossed nearly $96 million, kicking off a film franchise that brought in nearly $550 million. Here’s what you should know.

Scoops Ahoy ice cream no longer just exists on TV.

Dee Snider defends artistic freedom during the 1985 PMRC Senate hearing on the perils of rock music.

Suggestive lyrics from bands like Twisted Sister led to the 1985 Parents Music Resource Center Senate hearing on whether musicians should be allowed to rock without parental supervision.

Georges Seurat. A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884, 1884/86. The Art Institute of Chicago. Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection.

A close look at Georges-Pierre Seurat's 'A Sunday on La Grande Jatte—1884' reveals much more than a warm portrait of a sunny day in a lovely park.

Union coal miners on strike, August 1, 1993.

By the late 1700s, laborers adopted the insult to refer to workers who wouldn’t join a strike, a union, or take part in organized labor and undermined their fellow workers.

Turtle mating makes for some funny sound effects.

From turtle mating to what really turns big cats on, animal sex can be a lot weirder (and funnier) than you probably expected.

Before John Polidori’s ‘The Vampyre,’ the creatures were far from suave, sexy aristocrats.

‘The Vampyre’ is largely forgotten today, but it upended centuries of vampiric lore 80 years before Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula’—and from its spooky beginnings to its scandalous misattribution, its history was as dramatic as fiction.