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Because a Wordle a day just isn't enough.

No matter what you’re a fan of—math, music, Star Wars—there’s probably a game like Wordle out there for you.

The reason why you don't always get a "decline call" button on your iPhone is pretty simple.

Sometimes you have to slide to answer, and sometimes you are offered "accept" and "decline" buttons. Why the difference?

'John Wick,' the 2014 revenge thriller starring Keanu Reeves, started a film franchise full of bullets, chases, and plenty of ice baths for its leading man.

You might want to check your basement, attic, and spare change drawer for some of these gems that are worth a fortune.

It all comes down to a little science and the shape of your drinking vessel.

We don't know this baby, but we bet they had an old-timey name.

Both Thelma and Louise made the list.

Ireland: Come for the Guinness, stay for the lack of snakes.

Legend tells of St. Patrick using the power of his faith to drive all of Ireland’s snakes into the sea. It’s an impressive image, but there’s no way it could have happened.

Do you think you have a photographic memory? Prove it! Take this interactive online test and see where you score.

This is counsel in multiple senses of the word.

It’s the Council of Elrond, not the Counsel of Elrond (though counsel was definitely given during proceedings).

Marie Curie, who was born in Warsaw, Poland, on November 7, 1867, is still the only person to receive Nobel Prizes in two different sciences.

This woman's shirt is green and blue, probably to symbolize the complicated history of colors associated with St. Patrick.

Wearing green on St. Patrick’s Day is a tradition that has been around for a few centuries, but it didn’t start with St. Patrick.

The phenomenon might look like a biblical plague, but the source is far more mundane.

For practicing Catholics, meat is off limits on Fridays during Lent. But they might be able to make an exception this March 17.

There are 73 in all.

Explore the complicated and controversial history of molecular gastronomy.

Once a simple patent clerk, Albert Einstein changed the world with his theories of special and general relativity.

Think incognito browsing hides everything? Think again.

Reminder: 'Incognito' doesn’t mean 'safe for work.'

Oscar-winning Michelle Yeah stars in the multiple Oscar-winning 'Everything Everywhere All at Once' (2022).

First Best Picture winner to feature hot dog fingers: check.

Despite the decades of public attention, there are some aspects of Camilla’s life that have been less well documented.

Identify whether you're feeling angst, ennui, or weltschmerz with this handy guide.

English never hesitates to borrow words that would lose certain subtleties in translation, and angst, ennui, and weltschmerz have made their way into English by offering a little something extra.

The circumstances surrounding the deaths of writes like Francis Bacon, Edgar Allan Poe, and Mark Twain were anything but ordinary.

Unusual deaths aren’t just found on the page. A number of authors have themselves died in bizarre ways—and sometimes, they seem even stranger than fiction.