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Here are a few things you might not know about Main Street's main event.

The title page of this guide to the world's fauna rightly boasts "13 coloured plates and numerous illustrations in the text." The illustrations are the best part.

After George Parkman mysteriously disappeared on November 23, 1849, an unusual suspect emerged.

It was Anthony Pratt, in the sitting room, with the brilliant idea.

Registering an aural trademark with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is difficult, but these sounds made the cut.

Word Nerd: Dispatches from the Games, Grammar, and Geek Underground, by John D. Williams, is a merry exploration of the intriguing, eccentric, and sometimes brutal world of professional SCRABBLE play.

There might not be time to master a new language before your next trip, but you can at least nail these 12 vital phrases.

Bioengineered brains, limbs, and organs are being grown in the lab.

Here's how one company plans to prevent distracted texters from bumping into the rest of us.

These are the kinds of things the American military wanted its soldiers to be cognizant of as they worked their way into Nazi-occupied France.

Who knew a simple tuber could do so much damage?

Ni! Ni! Ni! 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail' turns the big 4-0.

Jellyfish don't regrow limbs—they simply work with what they've got.

Does handling money actually make you feel physically colder? New research claims it does.

Orwell never acknowledged that he borrowed from 'We,' but the uncanny similarities make it hard to conclude otherwise.

Plumbing codes require u-shaped toilets for hygienic reasons.