6 More Bizarre World Records
One-of-a-kind accomplishments that are as impossible to believe as they are to fabricate.
Amid all the awful news, there are amazing stories of how people stepped up to save lives and help victims through the devastation.
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The 66th annual Cannes Film Festival is in full swing. Although Cannes is an international film festival, flicks from the United States often win the festival’s grand prize. Here are 10 American movies that won the Palme d’Or Award.
Mabel Hyde Kittredge, activist and founder of the hot lunch program for public schools in New York, was the Martha Stewart of tenement living.
Who would've guessed Caddyshack would prove so prophetic?
Iris Scott’s oil paintings elevate the childhood practice of using fingers instead of brushes to a higher form of art. Her grown-up finger-painting technique results in vibrant, uniquely textured works that would do her inner child proud.
Here’s a look at some SNL ex-pats whose found new life both on the screen and off.
Here are some lesser-known but significant evolutions in the art and business of movies.
Welcome to Trailer Thursday, where we help you decide what to do with your Friday night. Here's what's coming out tomorrow.
They called it the "Corvette of bicycles": The Schwinn Sting-ray, which revolutionized the industry in the 1960s, was created by Al Fritz, who died on May 7, 2013, of complications from a stroke.
If you were a ‘90s kid, you know some of these faces as surely as if they ate rectangle pizza and lettuce salad next to you in the cafeteria every day. But would you recognize them today? Here’s what they’re up to these days—and what they look like.
TV theme songs are an endangered species, growing shorter and less creative each year. Commercial breaks are longer than they used to be—about eight minutes per half hour of broadcast programming. To make the most of every second of airtime, TV producers
What do you call a word that spells another word backwards or a word that looks the same upside down? When terms for these orthographic puzzlers didn’t exist, logolologists were happy to invent some. Here are a few.
Parisian twins Monette and Mady have spent their lives embracing their shared appearance, dressing exactly alike every day of their adulthood. The results are unsettling, to say the least.
Police say a group of hackers and street thieves in 27 countries nabbed a fortune without setting foot in a single bank.
While American TV shows like Friends, The Nanny, and Married With Children have been exported to foreign markets, Americans have seen their fair share of poorly adapted remakes of foreign TV shows. Here are 15 that just didn't translate.
How do you measure influence? What is notability? It might seem that before the social ranking site Klout came along to assign people numbers by cold, numerical, social media calculation, the only way to rank people's importance was by hunch and opinion.