A modernist home in Highland Park, Illinois, that was featured in Ferris Bueller's Day Off sold for $1.06 million. The house had been on the market since 2009.

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In the recent tradition of the other female comedians taking our screens big and small by storm, Amy Poehler will be releasing a sorta-kinda memoir with a suitably sassy cover.

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The late Dr. Maya Angelou wrote seven autobiographies, over a dozen volumes of poetry, cookbooks, children's books, plays, and more—and she was a proficient Twitter user as well.

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A 94-year-old woman in Massachusetts is proving that it's never too late to pick up that high school degree.

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There is nowhere in the continental United States more than 192 miles away from a Starbucks. Whether that's thrilling or terrifying information will depend on your personal affinity for brand-name iced lattes.

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People were faking photos long before Adobe Photoshop was invented, albeit with far more difficulty.

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When NASA indulges in arts and crafts, they do it on a grand scale: over 36,000 selfies combined, from 131 nations/regions, form an enormous self-portrait collage of sorts of the entire Planet Earth, as seen from space.

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There is a single best way to hold a hamburger for maximum efficiency and minimum mess. This is it.