Each Great Lake has unique shorelines and dangers, but Lake Michigan stands alone as the deadliest.

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We conducted a survey of over 2000 people to find out if people are afraid of the dark as adults and what about it makes them so uneasy. Check out what we uncovered!

Maasai Olympics is a biennial event for Maasai warriors to compete against other warriors, in Kenya's Amboseli ecosystem, as an alternative to lion hunting.

It's nine years since Freddie Mercury died and his place in rock's hall of fame is still secure. But not because of the music, says Ben Marshall.

Neil deGrasse Tyson (American English: /dəˈɡræs/, Commonwealth English: /dəˈɡrɑːs/; born October 5, 1958) is an American astrophysicist, planetary scientist, author, and science communicator.

Sallie Ann Jarrett was the canine mascot of the 11th Pennsylvania Infantry, accompanying the soldiers throughout nearly the entire American Civil War, until she was killed in action in February 1865. Sallie, as the men would come to call her, was born in…

Horse - Horse - Evolution of the horse: The evolutionary lineage of the horse is among the best-documented in all paleontology. The history of the horse family, Equidae, began during the Eocene Epoch, which lasted from about 56 million to 33.9 million years…

Pusha-T discusses co-writing the McDonald's ''I'm Lovin It'' jingle, and why he only received half a million dollars for it.

What measures are in place if there is a nuclear catastrophe?

Jenga is a game released by Irwin in 1987. It contains 54 blocks that you would pull out one at a time and stack up until the tower collapses.

‘I kept coming across scraps of denim, because jeans, especially Levi’s, were worn by the silver miners in the late 1800s’

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Music video by Port Isaac's Fisherman's Friends performing No Hopers, Jokers & Rogues. (C) 2010 IBC Representations Ltd exclusively licensed to Universal-Island Records Ltd.

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While constructing the material for Cowardly Lion's costume in The Wizard Of Oz, the designers weren't afraid to use the real thing.

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citadel and archaeological settlement hill in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan