The Mongolian Death Worm

The Mongolian Death Worm, Mothman, the Jersey Devil, and seven more incredible urban legends that attack from the air.

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John Green hosts our YouTube series. Yesterday he and his wife welcomed a baby girl! Everybody is very excited about Alice. Even the White House.

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The quiz about nothing: Test your knowledge of Seinfeld in this 20-question quiz or no soup for you!

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Flashback to Paul McCartney's live "Abbey Road" medley at the Music for Montserrat benefit.

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The video game giant Atari has purchased somewhere between 10 and 20 semi-trucks' worth of their repertoire's E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial cartridge videogame, many of which were dumped in a New Mexico landfill nearly 20 years ago.

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So you wanna solve climate change? Here's a flowchart that'll single-handedly help you lead the way to a green revolution. (Fingers crossed.)

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Silver Dollar City's Outlaw Run, Six Flags Over Texas's Iron Rattler and three more of this summer's best roller coasters in which you can revel in sublime nausea.

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Did you happen to catch that NCAA baseball game where the Siberian husky ran onto the field and interrupted the whole thing? It's pretty cute.

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Disney's original title for The Lion King was King of the Jungle -- until they realized lions don't live in jungles! Check out 18 more pretty cool facts about the making of the 1994 iconic animated feature.

This ‘Outtake’ Video of the Royal Wedding is So Dumb—But So Very Enjoyable. As if it were like everyone else's wedding.

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A Lonely Avocado Searches for His Other Half in The Pits. This sweet short film, written by David Bizzaro, has been selected for more than 30 film festivals so far.

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We’ll First Find Aliens on Eyeball Planets. These are exoplanets that are tidally locked to their star, and carry a thin habitable zone in a ring shape.

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Vulture Ranks Every Star Wars Movie. Ten mini-reviews to justify the rankings include Solo without giving away too much.

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Han Solo was Almost in Revenge of the Sith. His part would have been too silly to believe.

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Deep in the Honduran Rain Forest, an Ecological SWAT Team Explores a Lost World. The diverse biology is a bigger treasure than the lost city that lured explorers there in the first place.

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Roxy, the Long Island Railroad Dog. He knew every train and its schedule, and how to get where he wanted to go.

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The Great Fertility Reversion. America's plummeting birth rate might not be as dire as it seems.

The X-Men Movies You Never Saw. Filmmakers have been pushing the comic book heroes for almost three decades.

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How The Gambia Learned to Grow Both Forests and Food. The trick is allowing communities to own, care for, and protect their pieces of the forest.

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Having Babies on Mars Is Going to Be a ‘Titanic Challenge.’ At least one scientist suggests that we start genetically modifying humans to withstand the rigors of reproduction beyond Earth.

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The Five Stages of Watching a Star Wars Movie. See them all play out this weekend as Solo opens in theaters.

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Josiah Henson, the Real Inspiration for Uncle Tom’s Cabin. He settled in Canada, where he was free to publish his life experiences.

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24 Things Princesses At Disney Parks Would Never Tell You. The job comes with strict rules and high standards, but doesn't pay well.

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Meet Gustaf Broman, the 19th Century Con Man Who Attempted to Cross the Atlantic in a Log Boat. He never expected to succeed, as he had other plans for the trip.

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19 Acclaimed Authors and Their Typewriters. Some of those machines are still around, and some are still in use.