BIG QUESTIONS

He found out about the attack on Pearl Harbor while at lunch.

Blanks are intended to mimic actual gunfire, but they're not as different from real bullets as you might think.

Yes, it's another opportunity to blame your parents.

The regional quirk is due to the area’s particularly long history of highways.

The answer is very classy and luxurious.

Is there truth to the cartoon trope?

In 1991 the World Wide Web became open to the public and ushered in a new era of consumer Internet use.

California is the only state that offers both a regular public marriage license and a confidential marriage license. Here's why.

Radios, it turns out, are dimwits.

There's a lot of information crammed onto food packaging these days, and along with all of the helpful stuff (like nutritional data and ingredients), there's also the mysterious, multicolored row of circles or squares that serves a very important purpose

Or was Toucan Sam just faking it all these years?

Originally it stood for something else.