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Definitive proof that all publicity is not good publicity.

One joke was so funny, an audience member literally laughed himself to death.

Saving a million dollars isn’t as impossible as it sounds—as long as you’re willing to wait a few decades.

In the fall of 1979, a group of unknown actors, a director desperate for a hit, and a special effects visionary got together in the woods of New Jersey to create the stuff of legend.

Squeeze with caution.

It's a marvel of poop-related engineering.

Surveyors are taking advantage of the uncharacteristic weather.

It's made out of the same material as toilet paper.

The dome-shaped water reservoir poses a suffocation hazard if dogs manage to get their snouts stuck in it.

The beloved (and record-breaking) Masterpiece series is making a big-screen comeback. Again.

Today, people around the globe will feel uneasy about getting out of bed, leaving their homes, or going about their normal daily routines, all because of a superstition.

And it hasn't gone out of fashion yet.

Don't succumb to "pressure selling."

High temperatures really do make your brain feel fried.

The public service announcements were originally meant to boost teacher recruitment—and NBC wasn't all that crazy about airing them.

The invasive species likes to gang up on its prey, sometimes swarming animals by the thousands.

The 'Price is Right' host really doesn't need the glasses. He wears them just so you'll recognize him.

Believe it or not, we're all probably mispronouncing 'Walden' author Henry David Thoreau's name.

Fletcher Christian and the mutineers sent Lieutenant William Bligh and 18 others adrift in a 1790 painting by Robert Dodd.

On April 28, 1789, Fletcher Christian and 18 other sailors wrested control of the HMS Bounty from Lieutenant William Bligh. They then sent Bligh and his loyal crew members off in a lifeboat in the South Pacific. More than 230 years later, their actions ma