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Knowing how to make tasty cocktails will make you a hit at any party, but adding flair to the process can bring the house down.

While the modern versions of child-proof lids have been around for decades, their history may extend back thousands of years.

Women make up half the world's population, but they face serious challenges—for instance, one third of the world's girls are married before age 18 (with a shocking 1 in 9 married before age 15!).

A Shemp refers to the stand-in required to replace an absent actor onscreen. Here are 11 cases when real actors were replaced by Fake Shemps, with directors crossing their fingers that no one would notice.

Leaving aside for now the few foreign loanwords (e.g., Qatar, Iraq) where Q shows up without a U, an English Q is the only letter that can't go anywhere without a partner. Why does a Q always need a U? We can blame it on a whole bunch of our alphabetic an

Colleges are notoriously weird; celebrities are equally strange. Sometimes, when the two are combined, magic happens.

For all the talk of how politicians are getting too nasty these days, hammering your opponent is nothing new. Politicians have always been venomous, if some of these zingers are any indication.

Most people are probably more concerned with how much money is saved in their piggy bank rather than wondering why exactly we save our spare coins in pig-shaped containers. But how did those containers get that shape?

His answers to user questions are equal parts delightful and thoughtful.

Since 1978, the Sundance Film Festival has been a launching point for independent filmmakers and a staple of American cinema.