A report [ PDF] prepared by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration notes that 850,318 cars manufactured by Ford ...

Next time you’re in New York or certain cities in Europe, pay attention to the curved shape of the window bars around you—they’re there for a reason.

Residents in certain states, like Hawaii, may end up feeling the strain on their wallets even more this summer when it comes to electricity costs.

Both the Amazing Facts calendar and the Word Nerd calendar measure 4.6 inches by 4.6 inches, featuring tear-off pages and an ...

Peggy isn’t the only seemingly random sobriquet for Margaret. There’s also Daisy, which, like Peggy, turns out to have a ...

Brownsville, Texas, (population 185,000) bucks the trend of the 10-year collision average; typical drivers there go 14 years ...

Though the 1975 original film is legendary, the ‘Jaws’ sequels actually get pretty weird—and here are the real reasons why.

Before the creation of synthetic plastics, patent leather was made by glazing animal hides with layers of resin-based varnish ...

A type of tick whose bite causes humans to develop alpha-gal syndrome, a bizarre, potentially fatal allergy to red meat, is spreading northward in the U.S. But experts say that a household item that ...

This is another riddle taken from one of the very first modern anthologies of riddles published in the English language, The Riddles of Heraclitus and Democritus, from 1598.

Sequels don’t necessarily get the bad rap they once did. In addition to achieving success at the box office, many cinematic follow-ups are met with critical acclaim. Two out of the 10 Best ...

Thanks to the proliferation of Starbucks, independently-owned coffeehouses, and expensive home machines, getting your hands on a “regular coffee” has become somewhat outdated. There’s a ...