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Bottle Service: How Snapple Took Over the 1990s

The popular fruit-flavored beverage won over millions of consumers with its idiosyncratic advertising in the '90s. Then Howard Stern happened.

Mild Dehydration Could Mess Up Your Concentration

Even a mild case may cause foggy thinking.

Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease is Making a Comeback

Several states are reporting outbreaks of a virus that causes painful blisters on your extremities.

10 Surprising Facts About Stranger Things

2. They auditioned 906 boys and 307 girls for the main roles.

Beatles Fans Can Soon Visit the Liverpool Site That Inspired 'Strawberry Fields Forever'

John Lennon played there as a child.

Anxiety Could Be an Inherited Condition, and Scientists Think They Know Why

Thanks a lot, Mom.

'Lost' Monty Python and the Holy Grail Sketches Discovered in Michael Palin's Archives

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8 Seemingly Harmless Plants That Can Kill or Maim You

Coming in contact with one of them feels like “being burnt with hot acid and electrocuted at the same time.”

Turn Your Phone Into a Reusable Notepad With This Silicone Case

Write down reminders to yourself where you know you'll see them.

Do Big Cats Get Hairballs?

If they did, it would be a basketball-sized elimination.

Disney's New App Makes Waiting in Line for a Ride Part of the Fun

Make the worst part of your Disney experience a little more enjoyable.

10 Facts About Lyndon B. Johnson

LBJ worked his way from the bottom to become one of the most unique, colorful, and controversial presidents in history.

You Can Now See How Much Time You Spend on Facebook and Instagram

A new feature will clock your daily usage and send you an alert when you've Liked one cat photo too many.

Want to Make a Hit Movie? Show Tom Cruise Running On Screen

If anything is capable of changing critics' minds about action movies, it's the 'Mission: Impossible' star's limber legs.

15 Actors Who Hated Their Own Films

"If you ever want someone to confess to murder, just make him or her sit through that film. They will confess to anything after 15 minutes."

Buy Books and Never Read Them? There's a Japanese Word for That

It sounds a lot nicer than "hoarding."

A 'Shipwreck' Hotel Has Opened on Namibia's Skeleton Coast

Stay in a cabin modeled after the shipwrecks that litter the foreboding but beautiful Skeleton Coast.

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Sushruta, Ancient Indian Surgeon and Father of the Nose Job

He was practicing plastic surgery thousands of years before European surgeons were even washing their hands.

New Exhibition Spotlights the Hidden Histories of Diversity in the Circus

The circus was an early opportunity for women and people of color to buck off the restrictive roles assigned by Victorian society.

Slice of History: A Pizza Museum is Coming to Chicago

Now you can finally walk the hallowed halls of pizza history.

German Court Awards Farmer $1 Million for 2000-Year-Old Bronzed Horse Head Found in His Well

He was originally paid $55,946.

Tongue twisters have had people tripping over words for centuries.

The History Behind 8 Famous Tongue Twisters

Whether it's selling seashells by the seashore or buying Betty Botter's bitter butter, some of these difficult phrases go way back to when elocution was practiced as routinely as multiplication tables.

Salvador Dalí and 19th-Century San Franciscans Were Eating Avocado Toast Long Before It Was A 'Thing'

A recipe from 1885 called avocado toast "delicious for breakfast or lunch."

New Google Maps Feature Tells You If You're a 'Match' for That Restaurant You Looked Up

Making dinner plans just got a little simpler.

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