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Meryl Streep with her Oscar for The Iron Lady in 2012.

Meryl Streep’s Oscars track record is impressive and perhaps impossible to beat, but Al Pacino might have the best chance of catching her.

Beulah Mae Donald in The People v. The Klan (2021).

'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.

Designer and researcher Marc Teyssier has built an unsettling human eye webcam that's impossible to ignore.

Cold brew and iced coffee are often lumped together, but there are major differences between the recipes that affect the taste and the price of the drink.

Butter and margarine are made from different ingredients, but that doesn't automatically make one product healthier than the other.

Because internet communities are important, too.

Reese Witherspoon’s book club is a prime example of how book clubs can thrive online—here are eight more great ones.

Many restaurants keep a basket full of carbs on the table. Why are so many eateries eager to serve up filling—and free—food?

A colorized image of sand dunes at Mars's northern polar cap.

NASA’s Mars Odyssey has been orbiting the Red Planet for literally 20 years—here’s a glimpse of what it’s been up to.

From Abigail to William, these classic boys' and girls' baby names are expected to become unpopular in the coming years.

Get in, loser, we're going planet-hopping.

From alien encounters in England to elk abductions in Washington State, here are 11 eerie unexplained events.

Steven Spielberg has a long list of unmade films.

The prolific director was once enamored with a biography of Thomas Crapper, one of the innovators behind the flush-system toilet.

"The best movies begin with an / encounter and end with someone setting someone free."

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.

The entrance to a Sheetz convenience store in Lebanon, Pennsylvania.

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, world's richest man for the fourth year running.

Jeff Bezos’s net worth skyrocketed in the last year. Elon Musk’s net worth did, too. So did loads of other billionaires’.

Dogs are fond of taste-testing windows in both cars and homes. Here's what they're really trying to do.

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The shingled, domed-shaped salt storage structures you see on the side of the highway are an example of clever design.

The mule’s name, Mettle, represented spirit, ardor, and stamina. “The way they play, they need all those things,” one Mets fan said.

Coats and jackets living together in harmony.

Though not everyone recognizes the technical difference between coats and jackets, Lands’ End definitely does.

It's actually less flashy than it looks.

Stainless steel rear doors are a pretty common sight on truck-heavy highways, but the surfaces are not all smooth.

The color of an egg's shell says nothing about its quality. The only difference between brown eggs and white eggs lies in the breed of the chicken that laid them.