Dubai's Burj Khalifa is twice as tall as the Empire State Building, making it the tallest building in the world. But it's about to have some competition for that title.

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Anne Frank wrote the letters to her grandmother up to 1941: the year before she and her family went into hiding and she started her famous diary.
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'Game of Thrones' may be over, but the epic HBO series' fans are still coming up with some wild theories about what really happened.
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'Game of Thrones: The Last Watch' took us behind the scenes of the epic HBO series to see what it was really like creating the last season. Here are 10 things we learned from the two-hour special.
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The clip, which shows Queen Victoria grinning and wearing sunglasses, was shot in Ireland a year before the monarch's death.
The health agency has better defined workplace-related stress known as burnout so physicians can make a more accurate diagnosis.
For a series—and season—full of powerful women, the men of 'Game of Thrones' apparently had a lot more to say.
David Milch's 'Deadwood' earned critical praise, launched careers, and won a devoted fan following over its three seasons—even if admirers of the dark Western crime drama have long lamented its too-short television run.
The U.S. National Tick Collection contains millions of tick specimens—from notorious species like the deer tick to more obscure examples of the parasite.
One Twitter user has created an alternate ending where Bran Stark’s true intentions are not as innocent as the real series conclusion made them out to be.
In the early morning hours of May 27, 2019, Bill Buckner—the former MLB first baseman for the Dodgers, Cubs, and Red Sox—passed away at the age of 69 after battling Lewy Body Dementia.
Michael Smith created a pain map of the worst places on the human body to get stung by a bee—and he used himself as his test subject.
Those little polka dots circling your windshield might be easy to miss, but they actually serve a few crucial functions.
Sally Ride—the first American woman in space—paved the way for female astronauts, and proved there is such thing as a stupid question.
The first and only X-rated movie to win a Best Picture Oscar, which made its premiere on May 25, 1969, could have looked a lot different.
Despite what the title might imply, Kenneth Branagh took some creative liberties with 'All Is True,' the William Shakespeare biopic he directed and stars in.
The bill would require people convicted of animal cruelty to be registered in a database that would prevent them from owning another animal for 15 years.
Decades after John W. Hayes died in World War II, his remains were discovered in a Belgian American military cemetery.