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5 Animal Couples Who Got Married
Getting hitched isn't just for people. Here are a few animals that took the leap into holy matrimony.
8 Movies That Changed Movies
Here are some lesser-known but significant evolutions in the art and business of movies.
How Play-Doh Created its New Compound, Play-Doh Plus
This year, the classic Play-Doh compound in its yellow container got a new purple partner: Play-Doh Plus. Here's how the new compound was made.
6 Cool Insects You Can Raise at Home
Don't let Mother Nature have all the fun!
11 Museums Devoted to Musicians
Take a look at 11 of our favorite museums devoted to rock groups, classical composers, and more.
Al Fritz and the Schwinn Sting-Ray
They called it the "Corvette of bicycles": The Schwinn Sting-ray, which revolutionized the industry in the 1960s, was created by Al Fritz, who died on May 7, 2013, of complications from a stroke.
9 Facial Reconstructions of Famous Historical Figures
The results of these facial reconstructions may be somewhat subjective, but they're fascinating anyway.

8 Historically Terrifying Viruses
We know you’re just itching to know all about some of history’s nastiest viruses and the horrifying diseases they cause in humans.
Theodore Maiman, Inventor of the Laser
In our Retrobituaries series, we highlight interesting people who are no longer with us. Today let's explore the life of Theodore Maiman, who died at 79 in 2007.
Learn Klingon in 6 Steps
So you think you have the fortitude to learn Klingon? Let's find out.
Why Do Black Shirts Get Hot in the Sun?
No doubt most of us have heard that black and other dark objects are more absorbant and white and light objects are more reflective, but let’s start out by clarifying just what’s being absorbed and reflected.

The History (and FlimFlam) of Tarot
Even for those of us with no use for fortune-telling, there’s something different about Tarot cards. Those peculiar pictures. That association with ancient, mystical knowledge. The way in which the fortune-telling unfolds. But rejoice! Everything you thin
36 Unusual Units of Measurement
We have a lot of words that mean a bunch of stuff or a bit of something, but many of those terms have actual, specific meanings. Let's learn about a whole barrel full of them.
5 Extremely Emo Scientific Phenomena
Know someone who still thinks science is boring? Tell them to get a load of these five phenomena, which prove science can be as painfully poetic as a ghost falling in love with a cirrus cloud.
What is the Most Complex Chinese Character?
Chinese characters are made up of strokes. Learning to write them involves not only learning where all the strokes go, but also the order in which they are supposed to be written and the direction of each individual stroke (left to right, up to down, etc.
The Origins of 9 Great British Insults
For as long as people have been speaking the English language, they’ve been deploying it to poke fun at one another.