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2008 Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin had a concession speech written up for election night—but wasn’t allowed to deliver it.

For every speech, there are a bunch of versions that ended up on the writers' room floor. Here are 12 speeches that were written but, for a variety of reasons, never delivered.

The middle-aged Mr. D promoted Rax Roast Beef by complaining about his mid-life crisis and nursing a hangover.

A child witnessing the will-o’-the-wisps.

Although there are a few distinctive beasts that are place-specific, many ghosts, fairies, and goblins pop up in similar forms across the various Celtic mythologies.

We give you an obscure word with four definitions—one correct, three made up. Can you identify the correct one?

An old-timey fireman with some dead weight.

Why your drunk friend feels so much heavier than your sober buddies.

Here are the winners and runners-up from this year’s Customer Choice Awards, including snacks, sweet treats, and even body care products.

The results of the Trader Joe‘s Annual Customer Choice Awards are in. Here‘s the best the grocery store has to offer, according to customers.

The seven-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker behind M*A*S*H and Gosford Park, who would have turned 100 this year, changed how we watch—and hear—movies. He also tattooed Harry S. Truman’s dog.

It was about modernization—and also politics.

Sometimes the letter of the law has tough things to say about, well, letters.

Throw the grammar rulebook out the window.

We’re taking Strunk and White and grammarians everywhere to task in the latest episode of The List Show.

Slipping and falling on the ice is always a serious risk during winter, but this sock hack from TikTok could help.

Lyft has autonomous cars in store for 2026.

Your Lyft ride could arrive driver-free as soon as next year.

February 14 is often celebrates as a day of love—but it has also been marked as a day of tragedy.

From 'chickabiddy,' to 'tootsicums,' these terms of endearment are more evocative than any garden-variety 'babe.'

Spoiler alert: They’re still around.

Thomas Edison’s 146-question employment test was so difficult that the inventor’s own son—as well as Albert Einstein—reportedly flunked it.

Ashlee Simpson, Milli Vanilli, and Luciano Pavarotti.

From Milli Vanilli to Mariah Carey and beyond.

Pillows work tirelessly to hold your head up. Here's how to know when they've had enough.

These words are the language of love (literally).

Whether it's bacteria, a city name, or a day of the week, love can be found in unexpected places—including our vocabulary.

Several factors make people more susceptible to the flu in winter.

Like clockwork, flu viruses seem to strike more people in winter than in any other season—and there are several reasons for that.

There‘s a FasTrak toll scam running rampant.

Received a text about unpaid tolls? You may be the target of a new phishing scam.

Fossilized human footprints in New Mexico’s White Sands National Park are between 21,000 and 23,000 years old and pre-date the Clovis people in North America.

Archaeologists used to think that the Clovis people were the first inhabitants of the Americas some 13,500 years ago. The evidence from these ancient sites says otherwise.