A stealth Starbucks is a Starbucks coffeehouse that does not advertise the Starbucks brand. These stores are operated in Metropolitan areas to do market research on how customers react to experiments in coffee service and coffeehouse design.

Have you heard the one about the bored Pharoah? It’s literally one of the oldest jokes in the book, or the papyrus scroll in this case. It goes:

reservoir on the Colorado River, Nevada and Arizona in the United States

On January 9, 1493, explorer Christopher Columbus, sailing near the Dominican Republic, sees three “mermaids”—in reality manatees—and describes them as “not

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A recent breakthrough in pseudoscience: the location of the Great Pyramid of
Giza encodes the speed of light to seven decimal places.

This is actually true. The speed of light in a vacuum is 299,792,458 meters per
second. The coordinates of of the Great…

The island off Africa's east coast had few human inhabitants prior to the Asian colonization.

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English singer and songwriter

Demographic trend in modern Japanese society

controversial claim that memory may be stored in the unconscious mind

Mulholland gave LA water and a motto to live by.

plant in the genus Brassica grown for use as a vegetable

“It's hard to explain, but there is something meaningful about getting together with people who willingly choose to do nothing.”

On July 12, 1968, 400 people, including sailors and officers in dress uniform, attended the funeral with full military honors at the Naval Home for its former four-legged resident.

The mid-19th century beard boom was motivated, in part, by health concerns

What a find! At a yard sale a good friend scored a copy of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Father Christmas Letters and she was good enough to give it to me. Published by his daughter-in-law in 1976 on …

table condiment usually made of tomatoes

How a fast-food marketing campaign turned into a widespread Yuletide tradition for millions

burst of electromagnetic radiation created by a nuclear explosion

USSR discloses that in '66 it detonated an underground nuclear charge 'of unprecedented force' to extinguish a fire raging out of control in a natural gas field in desert area of Uzbekistan; map; disclosure made by newspaper Pravda Vostoka of Tashkent

A welcome comfort for WWII soldiers…if they didn’t explode.