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This riddle dates back to the 17th century—can you figure out the answer?
Rounding out the top three candies is Hershey’s Milk Chocolate Bar, which made its mark in South Carolina and North Carolina.
One of the potential benefits of the legs-up-the-wall pose is that it can improve blood circulation, particularly for ...
Some important commands are “heel,” “wait,” and “stay.” You also want to make sure your pup has been trained not to chase and is securely kept on a leash, as there are lots of wild creatures that may ...
The names of places were tough to pronounce for various states. Like Uranus, Massachusetts also appeared twice, generating the most search traffic in Oregon and—perhaps surprisingly—within the state ...
English is full of eggcorns: mistaken words or phrases that make almost as much sense as the correct versions. The term eggcorn was coined by linguist Geoff Pul ...
Expert skimmers focus more on their fingers to get the proper spin rather than flicking the wrist. High-level skimmers can far outmatch your typical adolescent rock-skippers: The current world record ...
We give you an obscure word with four definitions—one correct, three made up. Can you identify the correct one?
Melton turned, laughed, and kept her quick pace. Soon she disappeared over a crest in the gravel hiking trail that wound ...
Country music has dominated searches for decades. The genre took over all of the Midwest, Southwest, a significant portion of ...
Some believe that tuning our music to 432 Hz rather than 440 will make it sound better—and make us feel better. What gives?
Another theory posits that Little Miss Muffet was Mary, Queen of Scots. The spider is said to represent Protestant John Knox, ...