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Cards Against Humanity Just Released Its First New Party Game in Over a Decade

'Head Trip' promises to be just as weird and raunchy as the original.

Vaunted House: The Most Expensive Home for Sale in Each State

If you've got $250 million, Bel Air has the home for you.

From the Pragmatic to the Cruel: 7 Ways King James VI and I Changed Society

From uniting the Crowns to whipping witch hunters into a frenzy, King James VI and I left his mark on history.

This Jack appreciates a good bargain or two.

These Last-Minute Halloween Deals From Amazon Are Your Chance to Save Big on Costumes, Horror Movies, and More

From top-rated costumes to horror movies from Shout Factory, these last-minute Halloween deals on Amazon can help you save—and keep things spooky.

What’s the Purpose of a Turkey’s Wattle?

The loose flesh that hangs from a turkey’s neck isn’t the most attractive part of the bird—to humans, at least.

"They want someone to spray the trees so the leaves stop falling."

New York City’s 20 Weirdest 311 Complaints From the Last 20 Years

NYC311 has fielded calls involving everything from goats to ghosts.

Sally and Jack Skellington in 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' (1993).

15 Great Family-Friendly Halloween Movies to Watch This Year

The best Halloween movies for kids are ones that also don't bore the adults.

These Sweet Potato Waffles Are the Ultimate Fall Breakfast

If you want a taste of fall first thing in the morning, make these sweet potato waffles from the Institute of Culinary Education.

Cleaning a porta potty is no walk in the park.

How Are Porta Potties Cleaned?

To keep porta potties (relatively) clean, sanitation workers require special equipment and a strong stomach.

Screenwriters and filmmakers made key changes to how these novels finished up.

15 Books Whose Endings Were Changed for the Movie

You might be surprised to see how these movies end, even if you’ve read the books.

The 25 Best Haunted House Movies of All Time

The haunted house is one of horror’s most time-honored tropes, a dark twisting of the place we call home into a maelstrom of terror and things that go bump in the night.

Don’t Know What to Read Next? This Comprehensive Book Map Can Help

TheLibraryMap organizes 100,000 book titles in a way that’s visually pleasing and easy to navigate.

Mantle Piece: You Can Own Shares of Mickey Mantle’s Boyhood Home for $7

The baseball icon’s modest Oklahoma home is getting the fractional ownership treatment.

A detail of the Chi Rho monogram in the Book of Kells, a priceless illustrated manuscript from the Middle Ages.

5 Misconceptions About the Middle Ages

The medieval era wasn’t just a bunch of flat Earthers feasting and jousting.

One Minute of Music: Remembering the HitClips Fad of the Early 2000s

The tiny chips held just 60 seconds of pop music, but kids still couldn’t get enough.

Sugar skulls are just one part of Día de los Muertos.

12 Facts About Día de los Muertos

In Latin America, el Día de los Muertos is a celebration of life and death, and an invitation for the deceased to return home once again to those who love them.

Why Is Opening an Umbrella Indoors Supposed to Be Bad Luck?

When it comes to superstitions about bad luck, indoor umbrellas are right up there with broken mirrors and black cats.

The fast food chain's much-loved Halloween pails are back for 2023.

McDonald’s Boo Buckets Are Back—and Here’s How to Get Them

Boo Buckets are back for 2023, and here’s how you can get your hands on the McDonald’s Halloween buckets that kids have been getting hyped up for since the 1980s.

*Insert Jaws theme here* / Alexyz3d via Shutterstock

Wild Misconceptions About Sharks

In this episode of Misconceptions, host Justin Dodd debunks some myths about these great beasts of the ocean, from whether punching them in the nose is a valid defense tactic to the events that inspired 'Jaws.'

Grandparent nicknames are different all over.

'Grandude': America's Most Common Grandparent Nicknames

Calling a grandparent 'Grandmother' or 'Grandfather' is so played out.

11 Surprising Facts About Vampire Bats

Only three bat species, out of some 1100 in the world, actually have a taste for blood.

Now you can trim your tree with the Sentinel Sphere from 'Phantasm'

Deck the Halls With Gore and ‘80s Throwbacks With These Horror-Themed Christmas Ornaments

Middle of Beyond offers holiday ornaments, ugly Christmas sweaters, and more inspired by your favorite '70s and '80s horror classics, including "Evil Dead 2," "Phantasm," and others.

Chadwick Boseman stars in 'Black Panther' (2018).

10 Surprising Facts About ‘Black Panther’

‘Black Panther,’ which stars the late Chadwick Boseman, was a major success for the Marvel Cinematic Universe when it hit theaters in 2018.

The Leonid meteor shower becomes a meteor storm every 33 years.

The Leonid Meteor Shower Explodes Across Skies This November

Known for producing the occasional meteor storm, the Leonid meteor shower is highly anticipated among astronomy fans.

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