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The FDA Food Code recommends food service employees wear “hair restraints,” but it might be more for appearance’s sake than safety.

A big yawn doesn't necessarily mean your pup is ready for a nap. If your dog yawns excessively, they could be signaling stress.

Despite rigorous quality control, eggs can sometimes arrive in stores with strange bumps or discolorations. Here's how to tell when it's cause for concern.

‘Vernal equinox’ isn’t just the technical term for the first day of spring, and 'summer solstice’ means something beyond ‘first day of summer.’

Some call it a 'furp,' or the passing of air and gas from both ends simultaneously. Can it happen, or has nature forbidden it?

Apart from being the feline equivalent of a fancy mustache, what are cat whiskers for? As it turns out, multiple things.

“Cut to the chase” is a slightly friendlier way of telling someone to get to the point, but old Hollywood filmmakers meant it literally.

If you're a human of average size, taking a bath isn't always as relaxing as it sounds—especially when your legs are sticking halfway out of the water. The problem? Bathtubs are too small. But why?

White collar jobs are purportedly better paying and more respectable than blue collar jobs—here’s how that came to be.

When you have a great idea, do you copyright, trademark, or patent it? Well, it all depends on what kind of idea it is.

Potholes are the bane of drivers everywhere. Unfortunately, not much can be done to prevent them from forming.

Your favorite ASMR playlist probably isn’t true white noise—or brown noise or pink noise, for that matter.