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"The quality of people willing to serve has been declining rapidly," the U.S. Army Recruiting Command's commanding general says

Once Upon a Time in Shaolin is the seventh studio album by American hip hop group Wu-Tang Clan. It was limited to a single copy sold in 2015, and is the most expensive individual album ever sold.

In September 2006, the World Chess Championship devolved into a debate about bathrooms. One champion, Veselin Topalov, accused the other, Vladimir Kramnik, of excessive urination, hinting that Kramnik was retreating to the unmonitored bathroom to receive…

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Brace yourselves: That catchy dance craze by Los del Río from the '90s, best known as

Nathan "Nearest" Green was the first African American master distiller in the country

The history of braille started in the early 1800's and is a system of touch reading for the blind in which raised dots represent letters of the alphabet.

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theory about discrepancies between opinion polls and election results in the United States

list of bestsellers of high regard in the U.S.A.

A Chinese man is now bedridden for life after he sold his right kidney as a teenager to the black market to buy the latest Apple products.

A centipede bite is an injury resulting from the action of a centipede's forcipules, stinger-like appendages that pierce the skin and inject venom into the wound. Such a wound is not strictly speaking a bite, as the forcipules are a modified first pair of…

Playing video games like Super Mario for two months can improve brain capacity and help forestall dementia, say scientists.

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