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Our 2025 word-a-day calendar covers old-timey slang terms, fascinating phrase origins, and more.

Birds are a noisy bunch, and there's a lot of variation when it comes to avian vocalizations.

From Reynard to Robin Hood, these fictional foxes all left a lasting impression.

Some songs remain mysterious. Others, like "My Sharona," have a clear (albeit disturbing) origin.

The original manuscript is one of the few Holmes drafts to ever come up for sale.

Did 'Friends' actually take place in a psych ward? Was it just one long promotion for Starbucks? Here are all the wildest 'Friends' fan theories.

Michigan maintains one of the most successful bottle return programs in America.

People who grew up with smartphones probably never gotten their hair tangled in a coiled phone cord while holding the receiver with their shoulders. Here are some other aspects of old-school telephones that young people might find confusing.

Is your middle name Marie? You could've been born in 1900 or 2015.

The abbreviations are widely understood as “morning” and “afternoon,” but what do the Latin translations actually mean?

In the 2000s, the internet took over, as did social media, streaming, and cell phones that were also cameras and tiny computers. The slang of this era didn’t disappoint, either: From amazeballs to mukbang and beyond, here are some terms you might not have

Grab your tinfoil hats. It’s time to get paranoid about mind control, CIA agents in the media, and other conspiracy theories with small grains of truth behind them.