The kid's meal is over 40 years old, but not even McDonald's is exactly sure who came up with the idea of packaging fast food in a cardboard box with a toy inside.

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Theodore Roosevelt has been in the news lately, thanks to a ship with a cargo of coronavirus and a leaked letter to the navy. But more than 100 years ago, TR—that ship's namesake—engaged in a controversial letter-writing campaign of his own, one that ince
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The all-in-one exercise machine used revolutionary marketing to convince consumers they could achieve physical perfection. Most people wound up using it as a clothes rack.
We have Mel Blanc to thank for many voices in our favorite Saturday morning cartoons, from ‘Looney Tunes’ to ‘The Flintstones.’
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From “Hey Food” to “Slimey to the Moon,” these ‘Sesame Street’ song parodies are bound to give you a good chuckle or two.
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Lower light and air pollution from recent lockdown orders means April 2020's Lyrid meteor shower could be the most visible in years.
Yosemite National Park in California has been closed to tourists for weeks, and the animals there are taking advantage of the new free space and privacy.
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With all our favorite childhood movies on Disney+ now, animated classics are back in vogue—here are the most popular ones.
McCartney wrote the song for John Lennon’s son Julian after Lennon began his relationship with Yoko Ono.
A century ago, Americans were warned that picking up the phone during the health crisis would be a very bad idea.
From liaising with Martians to living on the moon, here’s where Soviet magazines thought the Cold War’s space race would take us.
Hadley Hemingway thought it would be a “swell joke” if the three of them were cooped up together. A few months later, she was divorced.
April is National Grilled Cheese Month, and if you download the Airtime app, you can make the same Flamin' Hot Cheetos grilled cheese recipe with your friends while social distancing.
Mr. Mittens could inherit millions from a generous owner, but it takes some legal planning to make sure jealous humans don't come looking for the dough.
Face masks are the latest coronavirus couture, but warm exhaled air can obscure your lenses. Here's how to solve it.
To help make the COVID-19 pandemic less scary for kids, 'Sesame Street' will air a special episode in the format of a cozy video conference.
Don't always have time to catch live sports on television? No problem. Some of the most dramatic athletic moments in history are available to stream.
'May' and 'might' are two modal verbs that are often used interchangeably, but there are grammar rules governing which one is technically correct.
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