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If you dread wrangling your pet into their winter booties, a swab of petroleum jelly can protect their paws from snow, ice, and salt in a pinch.

From ‘Midnight Cowboy’ to ‘The Cat from Outer Space,’ the former POTUS was an eclectic cinephile.

Many drivers think that giving your engine time to reach its normal operating temperature is easier on your car than hitting the gas as soon as you turn the ignition on. Many drivers are wrong.

The home-sharing app is opening its doors to people displaced by LA’s current crisis.

The Inca stronghold of Machu Picchu has astounded and confounded visitors since it was unveiled to the wider world more than 100 years ago by an ambitious Yale professor.

What are eggs, really? It's complicated.

King Edward VIII is far from the only monarch to reject their rule.

With a letter opener protruding from his chest, Martin Luther King Jr. reassured everyone that everything was ok. One sneeze later, it would not have been.

Dinosaurs roamed the UK millions of years ago, as evidenced by fossilized tracks recently uncovered in Oxfordshire.

The Oregon Trail had 4 to 10 percent death rate, which is lower than you might assume if you’ve played the computer game.

The mass production of silver coins in the Roman Empire had an unintended effect: spewing so much lead into the atmosphere that it may have lowered citizens’ IQs.

Where do residents of your home country dream of relocating to?

Are you sick of social media? You can get paid to walk away from it for 30 days.

Public health officials are concerned that we could move back into a situation like that of the early 20th century, before antibiotics were discovered.

The Girl Scouts of the USA bids farewell to Toast-Yay! and S‘mores.

The age ranges and birth years for Gen Z, Gen Alpha, and Gen Beta—along with Millennials—are getting clearer (so we can all quit fighting about it now).

The interior of an igloo can be 40 to 60 degrees warmer than its surrounding environment.

You can thank your butt for a number of physical actions you take every day: moving your hip and thigh during walking or running, rising from a sitting position, climbing, and even just standing upright.

Little kids loved them—but adults thought they were setting up girls to have no motherly instincts.

Find out which cities offer thrifters the best bang for their buck.