50 Things To Not Know

The next time you're marveling at a painting by Picasso, a statue by Michelangelo, or a carving from ancient Egypt, don't be absolut...

In 1995, the San Jose Mercury News almost went under because of a boycott by all of its car company advertisers. Why were they so irate? The...

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It's widely believed that "squaw" is a crude word for the vagina. Whether people under this misapprehension believe that the w...

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The movie Black Hawk Down was one of the biggest box office draws of 2001, and it earned its director, Ridley Scott, an Oscar nomination. (H...

When you're talking about scientists who achieved rock-star status in the second half of the twentieth century, the late astronomer and ...