Weird Al Yankovic's 'Dare to Be Stupid' was released in June 1985.

Sixteenth-century Aztec codices preserve a record of at least 13 drought years in central Mexico during the prehispanic and early colonial period. Climate-sensitive tree-ring records recently developed for Mexico confirm 9 of the 13 Aztec drought dates, including…

'Rhythm' is the longest English word without a vowel. - Word and Language Fact

The Carter Center is commemorating the 40th anniversary of normalizing diplomatic relations with China with a symposium on Jan. 17-19 that will feature dozens of experts on U.S.-China relations. You can read more about this diplomatic feat on this page, which…

In his later years Joe Jackson, who died on Wednesday at 89, addressed his children's accusations, saying, "I'm glad I was tough because look what I came out with. I came out with some kids that everybody loved all over the world"

The discerning observer may infer women's experience of vaginal orgasm from a gait that comprises fluidity, energy, sensuality, freedom, and absence of both flaccid and locked muscles. Results are discussed with regard to previous research on gait, the effect…

Capone won the award for "Best in Snoring," before taking the American Rescue Dog Show's top honor and earning a $100,000 grant for the San Diego Humane Society

Brad Bird's The Iron Giant is a celebrated classic in part because of its anti-violence message, which a real-world tragedy helped inform.

Eating too much salt can kill you. Excessive salt intake will cause an estimated 1.6 million deaths worldwide this year. There's a way to reduce these deaths.

Leonard Ncube & Nqobile Tshili, Chronicle Reporters POLICE have arrested a suspected poacher for allegedly poisoning over 100 elephants using cyanide at Hwange National Park. Tony Maphosa, who has been on the run since 2013, allegedly poisoned water points…

The Science Gallery in Dublin has built a full-scale model of the Ig Nobel Prize-winning Blonsky birthing device, and placed it next to the window where passersby can admire and wonder at it: This …

Greek astronomer and mathematician (c.310–c.230 BC)

China was a vital, but often forgotten, member of the Allies battling Japan—two years before the official start of World War II.

turf war in Glasgow, Scotland, in the 1980s between criminal organisations selling drugs and stolen goods from ice cream vans

Martin Luther King Jr. was also outspoken against nuclear weapons.

Muscles are groups of cells in the body that have the ability to contract and relax. There are different types of muscle, and some are controlled automatically by the autonomic nervous system. Other muscles, like the skeletal muscle that moves the arm,…

Auditory and visual imagery were studied in a sample of 128 participants, including 34 self-reported aphantasics. Auditory imagery (Bucknell Auditory Imagery Scale-Vividness, BAIS-V) and visual imagery (Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire-Modified,…

German opponent of Nazism, planned and carried out an assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler on 8 November 1939

On 25 August 2010, a Let L-410 Turbolet passenger aircraft of Filair crashed on approach to Bandundu Airport in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing all but one of the 21 people on board.