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From Austen to Dickens and beyond, famous authors have had no problem with using the word 'literally' in a figurative sense.

You may hear an "Erin go bragh" or two, but even on the most Irish of holidays, we don't hear much of the Irish language—which is a shame.

No, 'Cocaine Bear' did not make the list.

Venus Williams took the sports world by storm when she first arrived on the international stage as a teenage tennis phenom. She hasn't slowed down since.

'John Wick,' the 2014 revenge thriller starring Keanu Reeves, started a film franchise full of bullets, chases, and plenty of ice baths for its leading man.

You might want to check your basement, attic, and spare change drawer for some of these gems that are worth a fortune.

Both Thelma and Louise made the list.

Booker T. Washington was one of the most influential Black leaders of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Here are a few facts about this innovative educator.

Unusual deaths aren’t just found on the page. A number of authors have themselves died in bizarre ways—and sometimes, they seem even stranger than fiction.

Think all there is to taxidermy is stuffing an animal? Think again. Since the days of William Hornaday and Carl Akeley, taxidermy has been a scientific art.

The next time you interrupt an important meeting with a ructus or a borborygmus, you’ll at least have the perfect word for it.

The internet is really just a spaghetti-work of really long wires found in the coldest depths of the ocean.