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You can pick up all kinds of new skills on YouTube.

60 Amazing Skills You Can Learn on YouTube

These YouTube tutorials will give you all the basics to learn something fun (like training your cat to give high fives or calligraphy) or practical (like CPR).

This Brat Pack drama features a riveting performance from a young Robert Downey Jr.

12 Surprising Facts About ‘Less Than Zero’

Bret Easton Ellis’s debut 1985 novel “Less Than Zero” was quickly adapted for the big screen, but here are some fun facts you probably didn’t know about the book (and the Brat Pack-led drama).

7 Ways People Woke Up Before Alarm Clocks

You couldn't hit the snooze button on these wake-up calls.

The Funniest Movie the Year You Were Born

Your parents were probably laughing at Eddie Murphy, Mel Brooks, or the guys from Monty Python.

This kitten is experiencing awe in the traditional sense of the word.

19 Words That Used to Mean Something Negative

Sometimes words move up in the world. Their meanings change with time, becoming more positive—a process linguists call amelioration.

From left: Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickson, Dolly Parton, Jimmy Buffett, and Gil Scott-Heron.

14 Musicians Who Are Also Novelists

Jimmy Buffett—yeah, the “Margaritaville” guy—is one of just a few authors to have books that topped both the fiction and non-fiction ‘New York Times’ bestsellers lists. Other authors that have that distinction include Hemingway and Steinbeck.

Elvis Presley, Josephine Baker, Joan Crawford, and James Brown.

65 People and Their Famous Last Words

Poignant, funny, sad, weird, or mean—last words can make quite the impact as we shuffle off the stage of life. Here are 65 notable examples.

10 Surprising Facts About Arnold Schwarzenegger

Bodybuilder-turned-actor-turned-politician Arnold Schwarzenegger was once thrown in a military prison for running away to pose in a competition.

They’re the only marsupials you're likely to find north of Mexico.

13 Facts About Opossums

Opossums have a bad reputation, but they’re smarter and more beneficial to people than other woodland denizens. Discover more about these unique marsupials here.

Patrick Henry delivers his famous "give me liberty" speech.

10 Facts About Patrick Henry

He’s best remembered for saying “Give me liberty or give me death,” but did Henry actually utter those words?

People have spent a long time coming up with interesting ways to beat the heat.

9 Creative Ways People Kept Cool Before Air Conditioning

People have come up with a range of ingenious, harebrained, and sometimes grim but often remarkable ways to stay cool during a summer scorcher.

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7 Facts About Willi Ninja, the Grandfather of Vogue

Famed choreographer Willi Ninja's pioneering dance moves and gender-fluid style had a lasting influence on music and fashion, which still persists to this day.

6 Fascinating Facts About Geoffrey Chaucer

'The Canterbury Tales' author Geoffrey Chaucer's work spanned poetry and prose and ranged from the humorous to the scientific—but there's so much more to know about the "father of English poetry."

Take your barbecue game to the next level this summer.

7 Tips for Better Barbecue, According to a BBQ Master

We asked Myron Mixon—a.k.a. the winningest man in barbeque—for some tips to help you nail it this barbecue season.

Visitors to the Louvre looking at the 'Mona Lisa.'

16 Things You Didn’t Know About the ‘Mona Lisa’

Her tricky smile and timeless allure have inspired academic study and artistic emulation for more than five centuries. But the story of this perplexing portrait of 'Mona Lisa' is even richer than it looks.

10 of History’s Most Amazing Survival Stories

Most of us never find ourselves in a battle for our lives. That makes these incredible survival stories all the more memorable.

Paying bills is a source of acute stress.

10 Facts About Stress You Should Know

How much do you really know about our biological and physiological responses to *waves hands around* all this? Grab a stress ball and find out.

2018 Nathan's Famous International Hot Dog Eating Contest

Chew on These 11 Impressive Competitive Eating Records

Pop a Tums and read about some of the most impressive competitive eating records ever broken.

The 20 Best Early Prime Day Deals on Amazon Basics Products To Shop Now

From Dutch ovens to luggage, Amazon Basics products are already affordable, but with these early Prime Day deals happening now, you stand to save even more.

Getting a song stuck in your head can be infuriating.

5 Ways to Get Rid of Earworms, According to Science

Got a song stuck in your head that you want to get out? For starters, try humming the theme to 'The A-Team.'

America’s 10 Most Beautiful—and Surprisingly Affordable—Places to Live

Great location doesn’t equal high real estate prices in these American cities.

You'll never look at time the same way again.

17 Facts That Will Warp Your Sense of Time

From prehistoric animals that lived much closer to us temporally than you might realize to the guillotine lasting way beyond the French Revolution, these facts are to mess with your perception of time.

The cover of James Baldwin’s novel ‘Giovanni’s Room.’

10 Facts About James Baldwin’s ‘Giovanni’s Room’

James Baldwin's novel 'Giovanni’s Room' was rejected by editors and publishers before it was eventually released in 1956.

This year, Prime Day kicks off on Tuesday, July 11.

Amazon Prime Day 2023 Is Coming Soon—and Here Are the Best Early Deals You Can Already Shop

Discover the best early Prime Day deals happening now for Amazon Prime Day 2023 on Apple products, robot vacuums, and more.

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