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You might have bought a dress on its website, or paged longingly through its catalog, or rifled through its quirky offerings in store—but there’s probably still a lot you don’t know about Anthropologie.

Erin McCarthy














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Even if you're an avid fan of the Frosty or can't get enough of the Baconator, there are probably a few things you don't know about Wendy's, the third biggest burger chain in the U.S.

Stacy Conradt


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While you’d be forgiven for assuming that UPS tracking codes are generated randomly, those numbers (and letters) actually contain a lot of information.

Tiffany Luckey






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Everyone from New England Patriots’ coach Bill Belichick to Tupac Shakur has supposedly read the 2500-year-old text’s 13 chapters on the 13 aspects of warfare.

Linda Rodriguez McRobbie