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Culture
8 Simple Rules for Using an Apostrophe to Idiot-Proof Your Grammar

Rule #1: Don’t put an apostrophe where it doesn’t belong.
Culture
20 Words Even Smart People Mispronounce

If you pronounce these words differently, don’t worry—many people do. But here’s how they were originally meant to be pronounced 50, 100, or 200 years ago—and, according to the dictionary, still should be.
Culture
How Presidents Met Their First Ladies: 10 True Love Stories to Make You Say ‘Awww’

We often think of presidents and First Ladies as stodgy old men and women. But they too were once young, and the stories of how these power couples first got together show a human side to the presidency.
Culture
These 13 Bizarre Facts About Dreams Might Keep You Up at Night

Your dreams can be affected by when you dream, whether you smoke, your mental health, and more. And, by the way, man is not the only animal that dreams.
Culture
6 Things Everyone Believes About Thanksgiving That Are Absolutely Untrue

Historian Samuel Eliot Morison says that “more bunk has been written about Pilgrims than any other subjects except Columbus and John Paul Jones.” After reading this, maybe you’ll agree.
Culture
6 Chilling UFO Stories From Famous People That Will Make You Believe

Two presidents, a Beatle, and multiple astronauts say UFOs are out there. Do you believe them?
Food Fun & News
10 Sickening Secrets of Processed Food Revealed

Have you eaten your fill of rubber today? How about cow bones?
Culture
The Big Difference Between Weather and Climate (And 10 Other Nature Words Everyone Gets Wrong)

Weather vs. climate. Lake vs. pond. Swamp vs. marsh. With these simple tricks, you’ll always know the difference between these nature words.
Funny Stuff
Strange Things You Won’t Believe the Government Spends Your Money On

During his time in the U.S. Senate, fiscal conservative Tom Coburn (R-OK) produced an annual ‘Wastebook’ that called out the ‘100 most blatant examples of unnecessary government grants.’ Here are a few of the oddest entries form recent years.
Funny Stuff
19 Serious Court Cases With Hilarious Names

‘Terrible v. Terrible.’ ‘Schmuck v. United States.’ Sometimes, nobody wins.
Culture
From Cabs to Bananas: Why Yellow Things Are Yellow

Yellow cabs, the Yellow Pages, and 9 more yellow things that owe their lovely hue to hard science or pure coincidence.
Funny Stuff
10 Common Sayings That Sound Way Funnier in Other Languages

‘Nice guys finish last’ means something very different in Spain.
Culture
15 Common Words That Used To Mean Completely Different Things

There was a time when ‘Girl’ meant ‘Boy,’ ‘Bully’ meant ‘Sweetheart,’ and ‘Fizzle’ meant ‘Fart.’ Let’s return there together.
Culture
7 Horror Films Inspired By True Stories

Norman Bates, Jaws, and Freddy Krueger may be the stuff of nightmares—but they were all real.
Culture
Possible Scientific Explanations for the 10 Plagues of Egypt

Were they divine intervention—or something more earthly?
Funny Stuff
Here Are 17 Ridiculous College Courses You Can Actually Take

“Let me through—I majored in Beyoncé studies!”
Culture
6 Classic Sesame Street Songs with Weird, Weird Backstories

For generations of kids, the songs on Sesame Street were the first pop songs they ever heard. Here are the stories behind some favorite ones.
Culture
Sneakily Similar Word Pairs Even Good Spellers Screw Up

You’ll never confuse ‘prescribe’ and ‘proscribe’ again.
Culture
These Classic Books Almost Had Disastrously Bad Titles

‘Gone With The Wind’ was almost very, very different…
Culture
5 St. Patrick’s Day ‘Facts’ That Are False

How much do you know about the history of St. Patrick’s Day traditions?

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