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When your bread dough doubles in size overnight, you have a hard-working team of microorganisms to thank.

Reginald Hudlin's 'House Party' proved to Hollywood that the growing interest in Black cinema seen in the late 1980s was no mere fad.

Abraham Lincoln was up for reelection in 1864, and Republicans thought soldiers’ absentee ballots could help.

Getting a good deal on a car can come down to something as simple as the day of the week you visit the dealership.

Only certain people can submit nominations, and the Nobel Committee isn’t allowed to reveal nominees or nominators until 50 years later.

Two of Roald Dahl’s books are dedicated to his daughter, Olivia, who died from measles complications in 1962.

The majority of American teenagers once learned how to drive in driver's ed. Today, you won't find these staples of highway safety instruction in the classroom.

Planes sometimes need to dump fuel to keep their weight down for a safe emergency landing. Here's why it doesn't hit anything.

At the Citadel Museum in Germany, monuments to oppressive figures and regimes are displayed in a different context than what was originally intended.

Even Emily Post, the queen of table manners, sometimes graced the tabletop with her elbows. What gives?

According to a new survey, the very middle of America is chock-full of workaholics, from North Dakota to Texas.

States have spent the coronavirus pandemic picking up some pretty eclectic quarantine activities, to say the least.