With a glass of water and a windowsill, you can regrow avocado pits, green onion ends, and other vegetable scraps into new plants.

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A lot has changed between the 19th century and today, but one thing that hasn't is the plethora of available parenting advice—though the following tips would likely make today's parents scratch their chins.
Meryl Streep’s Oscars track record is impressive and perhaps impossible to beat, but Al Pacino might have the best chance of catching her.
'The People V. The Klan' is a four-part CNN Original Series about the courageous story of Beulah Mae Donald, a Black mother in Alabama who brought down the Ku Klux Klan for the brutal murder of her son.
Reese Witherspoon’s book club is a prime example of how book clubs can thrive online—here are eight more great ones.
From Abigail to William, these classic boys' and girls' baby names are expected to become unpopular in the coming years.
From alien encounters in England to elk abductions in Washington State, here are 11 eerie unexplained events.
The prolific director was once enamored with a biography of Thomas Crapper, one of the innovators behind the flush-system toilet.
Jack Kirby is known as one of the architects of the Marvel Universe. Find out more about his life and legacy.
Poems have helped to create some of the most poignant scenes in movies—think of W.H. Auden’s "Funeral Blues" in 'Four Weddings and a Funeral,' or Elizabeth Bishop’s "One Art" in 'In Her Shoes.' Movies, in turn, have inspired some spectacular poems.
For people in a swath of the country, Sheetz is an unwritten item on the itinerary of any journey of more than 40 miles.
Jeff Bezos’s net worth skyrocketed in the last year. Elon Musk’s net worth did, too. So did loads of other billionaires’.
Mary Astor and her 'Purple Diary' were the center of a Hollywood scandal so big, it knocked news of Hitler off the front page.
In the 1980s, shopping malls across America hosted everything from video game demonstrations to fans screaming for Patrick Duffy.
New York City’s population density has proven impossible to beat—but San Francisco tried its level best.
From ahead-of-the-curve furniture design to geeky scientific fact-check details, here’s what to zoom in on the next time you’re sitting awestruck watching Stanley Kubrick’s '2001: A Space Odyssey.'
Yes, J. Peterman is a real mail order catalog magnate. And yes, he's real-life friends with the not-so-real Peterman.
You know that Tom Hanks is an Oscar-winning actor, and that he recently played Fred Rogers on the big screen. But did you know that he's actually related to Mr. Rogers? (And to Abraham Lincoln, too.)
Why have one TV show when you can have two? And why just have a plain old TV crossover when you can have a really weird TV crossover?
From its humble beginnings on Logo TV to its current status as an awards show darling (19 Emmys and counting), 'RuPaul's Drag Race' has been on our TV screens for over a decade now.
'A Glitch in the Matrix,' the new documentary from Rodney Ascher ('Room 237') takes its cue from Philip K. Dick to explore just how real the "reality" we live in is.
“Girl Groups” is one of those musical genres that’s difficult to define, but that has been incredibly influential on pop music as a whole throughout the decades.