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Some stores are refusing to let Black Friday overshadow Thanksgiving.

Don’t leave your Thanksgiving grocery shopping to the last minute this year. Aldi, Publix, and Trader Joe’s are among the businesses giving employees the day off on the fourth Thursday in November.

Alvin Ward
















Go ahead—belch.

We’ve used the term ‘rat’ to refer to an informer since approximately 1910. But criminals have had many more names for snitches over the years.

Erin McCarthy








The St. Augustine globster washed ashore in 1896.

Though these marine mysteries are often solved, globsters—unidentified organic masses that wash up on beaches—continue to capture the public’s imagination.

Michele Debczak