She needs to officially change her name to Mariah 'Christmas' Carey!

<p>Wild elephants can distinguish between human languages, and can tell whether a voice comes from a man, woman or boy, a new study says.</p>

Anni-Frid Lyngstad was born because of the notorious Lebensborn program

Which movies and characters have the most dialogue? Last April, Polygraph complied and analyzed 2,000 screenplays to study gender in film dialogue. This analysis uses their summary dataset (for each movie: its characters, the number of words they spoke,…

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James Cameron laughs off Matt Damon's decision to turn down "Avatar," which would've earned the actor over $250 million.

You probably never noticed that radio stations do this until now—but here's the history behind this surprising trend!

More than 170 million Americans -- or about half of U.S. adults -- were exposed to harmful levels of lead as children, according to a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Robert Beamon (born August 29, 1946) is an American former track and field athlete, best known for his world record in the long jump at the Mexico City Olympics in 1968. By jumping 8.90 m (29 ft. 2.5 in), he broke the existing record by a margin of 55 cm…

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For two months last fall, Eric Simons secretly took up residence inside the Internet giant's Palo Alto, Calif., campus, eating free food, enjoying gym access, and building a startup in the process.

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Moving Day in New York City

Psychologists often note that most people think they are above average in intelligence. We sought robust, contemporary evidence for this “smarter than average” effect by asking Americans in two independent samples (total N = 2,821) whether ...

Cops: Man Sideswipes Phone Pole Support Wire, Severs Friend's Head

The Christmas television special—the longest running in history—was groundbreaking in its use of stop-motion animation with puppets

Honey badgers are the subject of numerous stories. Like many children, they can be violent and fearless creatures that can cause a whole slew of issues. Finding them in the wild is exceptionally hard, but you will undoubtedly fall in love with these magnificent…