Brownsville, Texas, (population 185,000) bucks the trend of the 10-year collision average; typical drivers there go 14 years ...

Both the Amazing Facts calendar and the Word Nerd calendar measure 4.6 inches by 4.6 inches, featuring tear-off pages and an easel backer so you can easily prop it up on a shelf or desk. They’re ...

This is another riddle taken from one of the very first modern anthologies of riddles published in the English language, The Riddles of Heraclitus and Democritus, from 1598.

Unfortunately for the locals of Charlotte, North Carolina, they came out on top not only with the worst branch of the DMV in the country (with just over 30 percent of online reviews considered ...

Sequels don’t necessarily get the bad rap they once did. In addition to achieving success at the box office, many cinematic follow-ups are met with critical acclaim. Two out of the 10 Best ...

Roasted coffee beans. | Chee Siong Teh / 500px/GettyImages A method of roasting the coffee bean that results in a loss of floral flavors but isn’t as oily or robust as a dark or French roast ...

Walt Disney Animation Studios has been delighting audiences since 1937, when Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was first released. Since then, they’ve taken us on journeys far and wide, from tales ...

Hughes in 1951, not long before he withdrew from public view. | University of Southern California/GettyImages “He cleaned up the image of Las Vegas,” Hughes employee Robert A. Maheu told The ...

Space is inaccessible to the vast majority of us, but it’s not as far away as you might think. If you were somehow able to drive a car straight up at 50 miles per hour, you would reach space in ...

Per the Oxford English Dictionary, the phrase dead weight can be traced back to the 1600s and is defined as the “weight of something which does not move by itself; a heavy, inert weight.” A ...

There are many reasons why horses might need shoes. There’s pretty much only one reason why cows don’t.

“Kevin sure made a beeline for that buffet,” one might say. Or, “Sarah made a beeline for the ER after breaking her tibia.” Every day, millions of people use the idiom make a beeline when ...