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Feel like getting good and scared? Check out some of the best horror movies streaming on Hulu this month.

Cross a few more things off your to-do list this autumn.

Get your home and lawn ready for the season with these 13 must-have fall cleanup tools designed for outdoor chores.

Pigs could be the next step in organ transplantation.

Kidney transplants my one day get an assist from porcine vessels.

The milk has curdled? Must be a brownie. Someone drank all your wine? Your cellar might be infested with clurichauns.

David Naughton in ‘An American Werewolf in London.’

Director John Landis wrote the script for ‘An American Werewolf in London’ when he was just a teenager—but for years, no one wanted to make the movie.

These ramps serve a very important purpose.

When a truck’s brakes fail, a runaway ramp is sometimes the one thing preventing disaster.

The origins and history of the word ‘cakewalk’ may make you want to reconsider using it.

From ‘cakewalk’ to ‘no can do,’ the origins of these common idioms and sayings are surprisingly dark.

The words ‘fall’ and ‘autumn’ appeared around the same time in Great Britain, but only one of the seasonal names is still used there today.

Dolly the sheep created a media frenzy in 1997.

Dolly the sheep was the first animal cloned from a single adult cell—and raised a lot of questions about the future of human cloning.

Incorporate these words into your conversations this fall.

Try spicing your fall with a few of these rustic charmers, drawn from the pages of Washington Irving.

Jacques Barraband, ‘Carolina Parakeet’ (1801)

The North American parrots vanished mysteriously in the early 20th century. Now scientists are closer to solving their disappearance.

A galaxy cluster surrounded by blue-toned cosmic microwave background radiation left over from the Big Bang.

The birth of our universe happened at least 13 billion years ago—and you may have seen it on TV.

His Airness once lectured McDonald’s employees on good customer service: “They expect to be treated as a guest in your home.”

Essential components of any vampire repelling kits.

The idea that garlic repels vampire has been linked to some serious health problems.

RIP to these Hershey’s Kisses candy corns.

A lot of them had something to with candy corn.

Get into the fall spirit with this seasonal brainteaser.

Bruce Campbell stars in 'Evil Dead 2' (1987).

The 'splatstick' horror classic was shot inside of a junior high school and owes its very existence to Stephen King.

All five answers to the questions below have something in common. Can you figure it out?

Shorty the Chimpanzee rides the merry-go-round and climbs on the Ferris wheel in this lighthearted 1936 newsreel.

Thiess was a little too forthcoming in his testimony.

Thiess strolled into court in 1691 to testify in a theft trial. He wound up admitting he turned into a wolf and feasted on pigs. You know, that old story.

“The Drinkers Dictionary,” published by Franklin in the ‘Pennsylvania Gazette’ in January 1737, features terms like ‘nimptopsical’ and ‘cherubimical’ as synonyms for ‘drunk.’