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During the 1800s, roughly 100,000 enslaved people sought freedom on the Underground Railroad, which stretched from the American South to Canada.

For employees at Disneyland Paris’s Phantom Manor in 2016, the attraction’s harmless spookiness turned genuinely macabre.

'The Devil Wears Prada' proved that Anne Hathaway’s range extended beyond fairy tale princesses, established Meryl Streep as one of cinema's all-time greatest villains, and taught us all the difference between blue and cerulean.

From how long a "hoax" like the Apollo 11 moon landing could actually stay a secret to the conspiracy theory involving Queen Elizabeth I, here are the actual facts you need to know about conspiracy theories.

One state has banned consumer fireworks outright. And in 2012, San Diego accidentally set off all of theirs at once.

From Beyoncé to Baby Yoda, the past 20 years have been jam-packed with moments that will long live in the memory of pop culture enthusiasts.

Bette Greene’s 1973 debut novel, about a 12-year-old Jewish girl in rural Arkansas who befriends a German prisoner of war in the early 1940s, was embraced by critics and readers alike, and it’s still a mainstay on school reading lists.

Even devout bibliophiles might believe some of these misconceptions about Jane Austen, Ernest Hemingway, and William Shakespeare.

Even if you have millions of dollars to spend, you may have trouble getting your hands on one of 2021's most expensive cars.

Fifty years ago, Congress consolidated all of America's passenger train service into one entity: Amtrak. Here are a few facts about the nationwide rail network.

Victorians had many manuals and advice books that discuss sex with surprising frankness. Here are 11 bits of Victorian sex wisdom—good, bad, and otherwise—published between 1837 and 1901.

As if he wasn't already revered for being the world's best-known naturalist, Sir David Attenborough also gave us Monty Python.