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Long before Helen Gurley Brown, Oprah, or Dear Abby dished out a single bit of dating advice, Regency women had their own guidelines to follow.

Vintage illustration of Thomas Edison and the phonograph.

You may know that Thomas Edison was a prolific inventor who revolutionized the electric light bulb. But have you heard about his creepy talking dolls?

The official campaign portrait of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Most people know that Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the only U.S. President who served more than two terms. Here are some other FDR facts you may not have learned in your history classes.

There's no guarantee you'll get all of a performer's greatest hits at a concert.

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

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With the ability to control and even kill their hosts, each one of these parasites could star as the next terror of the silver screen.

7-Eleven sells more than 14 million Slurpees each month, but adults used to be so ashamed to be seen drinking one that they'd disguise it as a Big Gulp.

For one, Toni Morrison's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel was based on a true story. She also didn't read it until 2014.

The Founding Father has some sage advice.

"Don't duel" is a given. Here are few other pearls of wisdom from one of America's most familiar Founding Fathers.

A photograph of Portland, Oregon's Mill Ends Park—the world's smallest park.

“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.

Literature's greatest minds loved a good fart joke.

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.

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Artists and writers can't always bring their works to grandiose completion. Here are a few that left us hanging.

Never wonder what you should call a baby alpaca again.

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?