Owing to boredom, spite, or just plain artistic growth, some recording artists won't give audiences what they want.

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For one, Toni Morrison's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel was based on a true story. She also didn't read it until 2014.
"Don't duel" is a given. Here are few other pearls of wisdom from one of America's most familiar Founding Fathers.
“Ireland” may be the most popular answer given when someone is asked about where leprechauns supposedly roam, but Portland, Oregon has its very own population of little green-clad Irishmen, too.
From contentious early history to modern science, these Christmas tree facts will help you see these holiday fixtures anew.
From "Gone with the Wind" to "Peter Pan," these famous books inspired sequels that weren't actually written by their original authors.
Throughout history, the chance to make an occasional fart joke has often proven irresistible, even to such influential authors as Aristophanes, Shakespeare, and Mark Twain.
Artists and writers can't always bring their works to grandiose completion. Here are a few that left us hanging.
We know that infant chickens are called chicks and baby ducks are called ducklings—but how should we refer to the newborn offspring of animals that don’t often get cooed over in their early developmental stages?
'Formication' may sound sexy, but it actually means "an abnormal sensation as of ants creeping over the skin."
From The Beatles to Lady Gaga, some of the music world's biggest names are responsible for some of the holiday season's biggest clunkers.