FACT CHECK

If shoppers have one complaint about Costco, it’s that the employees posted at the exits to take a marker to customers’ receipts seem vaguely insulting. Here’s the real reason behind why it happens.

When it comes to jellyfish stings, urine is often cited as an effective remedy. But does it really work as a first-aid treatment?

The movies make it look easy. But if the future of our world depended on it, could you successfully work to disarm a nuclear bomb?

It happens in movies—but can an average person actually be talked through landing a plane in an emergency?

Would a diet heavy on human brains provide a zombie with everything it needs to survive, nutrition-wise?

There are few children’s books more beloved than Eric Carle’s 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar,' even if it's real-life ending would be much more gruesome.

'The Crown' offers a glimpse of Anthony Blunt, the real-life art curator for Buckingham Palace found to be a Russian Spy in 1964. Incredibly, he stayed on for eight more years. Here's why.

For more than a century, a rumor has circulated that the William Seward statue in New York City's Madison Square Park is a composite—Seward's head plopped on Abraham Lincoln's body. Where did the rumor come from and ... is it true?

Our 26th president was a man larger than life—and is forever much larger than life, thanks to the fact that he's on the side of a mountain. But as with any such figure, myths and legends arise. So we’re here to explain the truth behind some popular storie

We asked a physics professor to explain how the loaded duck can swim in a pile of gold. After he was done laughing, he enlightened us.

Losing weight might be about when, not what, you eat.

When that jolly old elf shimmies down your chimney, is he actually breaking the law?