BIG QUESTIONS

While there are plenty of tricks that can be performed solo, having a partner increases both the number and scale of illusions a magician can pull off.

The regional quirk is due to the area’s particularly long history of highways.

The answer is very classy and luxurious.

In 1991 the World Wide Web became open to the public and ushered in a new era of consumer Internet use.

California is the only state that offers both a regular public marriage license and a confidential marriage license. Here's why.

Your ears aren't the only thing you have to worry about.

There's a lot of information crammed onto food packaging these days, and along with all of the helpful stuff (like nutritional data and ingredients), there's also the mysterious, multicolored row of circles or squares that serves a very important purpose

Or was Toucan Sam just faking it all these years?

We can thank the ancient Babylonians and Egyptians. Here's how people decided how long an hour, a minute, and a second are.

Venomous bites can paralyze and kill prey. But what happens when a snake is exposed to its own toxins?

Up to 35 percent of the population experience this sneezy reaction to bright light.