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Sports journalist and former baseball player Josh Chetwynd has compiled what appears to be an exhaustive collection in his new book The Field Guide to Sports Metaphors: A Compendium of Competitive Words and Idioms. Here are the sports-related origins of j
Simon Davis|
You might want to check your attic.
Andrew LaSane|
Presented by Allstate.
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Bornean rock frogs use visual “foot flags” to ward off rivals in their noisy environment.
Kate Horowitz|
The study found that name mix-ups (calling one person by another’s name) usually occur within the same relationship category.
Anna Green|
All-female mole salamanders could grow back body parts 1.5 times faster than a related species that used sex to reproduce.
Kate Horowitz|
“SSRIs are a good thing, but they have an inhibitory effect on osteoblasts, bone cells, which we’ve only known about since 2010,” Sebastiano Andreana tells mental_floss.
Jordan Rosenfeld|
Climate change may seem like a fairly recent topic for scientific investigation, but a new study provides more evidence that it isn't.
Dan Falk|
Despite what you may have heard, you’re not doomed to be out of shape if you’re a night owl and can’t bear to work out when you roll out of bed.
Laurel Leicht|
The stone lines depict what's believed to be a mythological animal sticking its tongue out.
Kirstin Fawcett|
Civilian fashion has been borrowing from soldiers’ uniforms for centuries.
Maureen Monahan|
All the willpower in the world can’t change the way your body processes calories.
Kate Horowitz|
The true story behind the popular American murder ballad.
Miss Cellania|
When 'Dallas' debuted in 1978, the world wasn’t quite ready for the nighttime soap opera. The first season consisted of a five-hour mini-series, and the second season expanded into 24 episodes; both seasons had low ratings.
Garin Pirnia|
It's loud and sometimes messy, but it gets the job done.
Nick Greene|
It took Eva Gabor and Johnny Carson only a few minutes to sell 3 million boxes of the game.
Jake Rossen|
11. Author Roald Dahl didn't want it to be made into a movie, but in 1996, years after his death, it happened anyway.
Jeff Wells|
The Southdale Center in Minnesota was the world's first indoor, air-conditioned mall.
Shaunacy Ferro|
Veronica Osogo knows tennis as more than just a sport. For her, it’s a tool to teach kids about health, fitness, discipline, independence, and the value of a good education. The 39-year-old tennis champ and Kenyan native founded the Zion Zone Tennis Found
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"Listen, Robert Moses" protested the planned Lower Manhattan Expressway, which, thanks to Jacobs, was never built.
Shaunacy Ferro|
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