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If you want to make your money stretch this month, consider waiting for Memorial Days sales on big-ticket items like outdoor furniture and appliances.

Elephants demonstrate complex behaviors that researchers have associated with empathy and mourning, pointing to the animals’ high level of intelligence.

Legend has it that a heroic American commander at the Battle of Bunker Hill implored his men to hold their fire until their enemies were under their noses. But did the event actually happen?

Before the word was used to describe hit movies, ‘blockbusters’ was a nickname for a highly destructive bomb.

Learn a fun fact about each of the most popular languages in the world.

Before ‘The Sopranos’ or ‘The Wire,’ television’s golden age arguably began on HBO on July 12, 1997, when the premium network premiered Fontana’s prison drama ‘Oz.’

We have many games to while away long days, but where do words like 'poker' and 'hopscotch' come from? Here are the etymological origins of 11 popular games.

The average body temperature isn't actually 98.6°F, a fact scientists have known for at least three decades. So why does this myth persist?

Coyotes can sometimes look like wolves from a distance—but there are some key differences between the two species.

Picasso and his Blue Period have nothing on Yves Klein, who created art almost exclusively in a shade of his own invention.

Old English had a rich array of inventive and intriguing words, many of which have either long since dropped out of use or were replaced.

In the latest episode of Misconceptions, host Justin Dodd is investigating some enduring myths about journalism, from its alleged bias to premature reports of its death.

The Irei Project and Ancestry have teamed up to publish the most comprehensive list ever assembled of the more than 125,000 Japanese Americans who were incarcerated on American soil during WWII.

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured the sharpest images of the Horsehead Nebula ever taken.

Supplements that promise to restore your gut health are everywhere. But not everyone can stomach them.

The $295-per-plate dining experience includes seven courses but no costumed characters.

‘Coger’ and the other terms on this list mean something very different in Spain than they do in other hispanophone countries.

For better heart health—and even a longer lifespan—new research suggests one doing simple and accessible exercise regularly: Taking the stairs.

The Allied forces’ Normandy landings on June 6, 1944—an event better known as D-Day—became a pivotal moment in World War II .

The original Luddites were workers whose jobs were threatened by new technology—and who fought back.