A new report on college grade inflation finds that about 43 percent of all letter grades given are A’s, an increase of 28 percentage points since 1960 and 12 percentage points since 1988.

Most of Scandinavia determines fines based on income. Could such a system work in the U.S.?

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There was nothing kind about this. A Florida man fighting with neighbors vowed to “kill ’em with kindness” and then attempted to do just that — with a machete bearing the name

The Federation of Quebec Maple Syrup Producers found empty barrels at the St-Louis-de-Blandford warehouse, where syrup is temporarily being held

Saving Private Ryan is a 1998 American epic war film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Robert Rodat. Set during the Invasion of Normandy in World War II, the film is notable for its graphic portrayal of war, and for the intensity of its opening…

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Chau Smith celebrated her 70th birthday by running seven marathons on seven continents in seven consecutive days - all while wearing a pink pussyhat.

Coconuts falling from their trees and striking individuals cause serious injury to the back, neck, shoulders and head. They can potentially be fatal.

More than a thousand people gathered at Westminster Abbey on 15 June to pay their final respects to Stephen Hawking, who died in March, and to witness his ashes being laid under a memorial stone between the graves of Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin.

The McDonald’s Menu Song was an instant-win promotion created as part of an advertising campaign for McDonalds. It ran from 1988 to early 1989. This is how the promotion worked. Listen to the album, and if it played all the way through, without the singers…

Sunanda Kumariratana (Thai: สุนันทากุมารีรัตน์; RTGS: Sunantha Kumarirat, 10 November 1860 – 31 May 1880) was a queen consort of Siam. She was a daughter of Siamese King Mongkut (Rama IV) and Princess Consort Piam. She was the half-sister and first wife of…

If your cold, cold heart doesn’t melt at some point during Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, the documentary about Fred “Mister” Rogers, well, I don’t...

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A microwave works by passing radio waves at a frequency of 2.45 gigahertz through any food. Radio waves at this frequency have an interesting property: they are absorbed by water and fats. When

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You think you know Steve Jobs? Think again, here are 50 interesting facts of the Apple founder and the company he helped create.

A declaration of war by Canada is a formal declaration issued by the Government of Canada (the federal Crown-in-Council) indicating that a state of war exists between Canada and another nation. It is an exercise of the Royal Prerogative on the constitutional…

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