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You know planes cover hundreds of miles per hour. So why doesn't it look like they do?

Some, like Harriet Beecher Stowe and Victor Hugo, believed they had communicated with spirits directly; others, like Nathaniel Hawthorne and Thomas Hardy, had ghostly encounters they couldn’t explain.

So many people are overindulging on brunch mimosas that restaurants now have a vomit surcharge.

From George Town to Tokyo, these world-class food cities won’t exhaust your travel budget.

If you were an 18th-century settler in Australia with no knowledge of marsupials, you just might decide to call a koala a ‘bear,’ right?

The rich history of the English language is full of similar directional words that are cool but uncommon, like ‘pancakewards,’ ‘couchward,’ and ‘pocketwards.’

The true facts surrounding the classic work are as mysterious and intriguing as the novel itself.

LEGO’s new bricks in honor of Blindness Awareness Month form braille symbols with the toy’s classic studs.

The theremin—a spooky instrument that scored the biggest sci-fi films of the 1950s—was invented by accident.

If you need to stock up on affordable essentials for the house, Amazon Basics products are great—and now they're on sale for October Prime Day.

Thousands of moviegoers rushed to theaters to experience ‘The Exorcist’ in 1973—and many left just as quickly when the scares proved too much to handle.

All five answers to the questions below have something in common. Can you figure it out?