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The slang of WWI is still being used today.

Though it was more than 100 years ago—on April 6, 1917—that the United States entered the First World War, its effect on our language continues.

Paul Anthony Jones


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Cats are undeniably smart, but do they have an understanding of their own identity? Researchers in Tokyo may have found the answer.

Jake Rossen






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So that's what you call it! It turns out that thingy, that doohickey, that stuff, and that space between those two things probably all have names.

Jason English, Adrienne Crezo








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As a 17-year-old boy in South Africa, Hugh Masekela received a trumpet that had been donated by a jazz musician in America. That musician was Louis Armstrong.

Emily Petsko






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Here are eight things you wouldn't expect about your favorite canned-soup brand, which got its start selling imported Italian foods by horseback around New Orleans.

Suzanne Raga