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Cricket chirps can reach 100 decibels. So why do we use them as a byword for ‘silence’?

These early audition tapes show why these then-unknown actors—from Scarlett Johansson to Aaron Paul—became household names.

An anonymous note left on Richard Simmons’s car window changed the soon-to-be-superstar’s life forever.

The Black track star smoked the competition to win a record-setting four gold medals, making a mockery of Adolf Hitler’s belief in Aryan supremacy. 

While many of these hallowed halls have gone through changes over the years, they remain among the oldest universities still operating.

The study by Bored Panda analyzed 30 million geotagged posts on X (formerly Twitter), and counted the number of times the posts expressed laughter in either emoji or text form.

‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’ is a fairy tale with a long history. But Goldilocks as we know her didn‘t originally appear in the popular children‘s story.

If you thought the fluorescent marker balls had something to do with increasing visibility, you were right.

Jack London amassed more than 600 rejections and endured a frigid Yukon winter before he found success thanks to ‘The Call of the Wild’—which also got him accused of plagiarism.

The ultra-rare event puzzled scientists for more than a year—but a new study suggests that “polar rain” and a lack of solar wind caused the ginormous aurora.

The light-up sneakers were coveted by ’90s kids, but some adults considered them a public health hazard.