Did you know that the direction your dog faces when they poop might be as reliable as a compass? And that Doritos make a great firestarter?

Let’s be grateful that our Thanksgiving feast has evolved to include turkey and pie.

Few musicians are famous enough to have an entire theme park dedicated to them, and Dolly Parton has proven herself to be one of them. Her Dollywood theme park (and water park and resort) in Pigeon ...

Full House's perpetually neglected Stephanie Tanner, The Brady Bunch's embittered Jan Brady, Downton Abbey's tragedy-prone Lady Edith Crawley: For many people, these are the images that pop into their ...

While today we can get machines to write for us, for most of human history, writing was a manual endeavor. And there are people who are super passionate about keeping it that way. Some schools are ...

The human body is an amazing thing. For each one of us, it’s the most intimate object we know. And yet most of us don’t know enough about it: its features, functions, quirks, and mysteries. Our series ...

Whether reciting the alphabet or belting out opera, human sound-making requires a lot of action from a very small set of muscles and tissue in the mouth, throat, and diaphragm. Arguably most important ...

John Denver knew a thing or two about the Mountain State when he crooned about its country roads. But there’s a lot more to West Virginia than rural highways and byways—like the first Mother’s Day ...

Lemony Snicket’s 13 books about the Baudelaire orphans—Violet the inventor, Klaus the reader, and Sunny the baby with sharp teeth—have sold more than 60 million copies worldwide. Look back on the ...

Apatosaurus suffers from an identity crisis of epic proportions. Even today, many people only know this amazing animal as the Brontosaurus, a name that was discarded 111 years ago. Really, it’s a ...

Cracker Barrel has been offering hot food and old-timey merchandise to interstate travelers since 1969. Even if you’ve had your share of biscuits and played the ubiquitous peg solitaire game, you ...

Nearly 4000 years ago, and 1500 years before Pompeii was buried by volcanic ash, the Bronze Age city of Akrotiri was destroyed by one of the most powerful volcanic eruptions in history. The discovery ...