For 25 years, Colin Steer was bewildered by a sunken portion of the floor under the couch in his Plymouth, England, home. At one point, he dug about a foot under the floor, but his wife, Vanessa,

In 1976, NASA accidentally sold tapes of the moon landing to an intern. Now, Sotheby's will sell the footage at a starting bid of $700,000.

Coordinates: 32°07′15″S 29°07′13″E / 32.12093°S 29.12029°E / -32.12093; 29.12029 (Oceanos wreck)

Over the years, this mental literary fail has gone by many names: work decrement, extinction, reminiscence, verbal transformation. But the best known and recognized term is "semantic satiation."

convergent evolution in which a crustacean evolves into a crab-like form from a non-crab-like form

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The ghosts of Cheers’ most famous barflies haunted airport terminals for a full decade, offering questionably witty banter and a vision of our tech-obsessed, frequent flying futures. Learn where they came from, why they disappeared, and the legal battle that…

“Fallen Astronaut” honors those who died in the Space Race, with a few notable omissions.

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(1861-1922) United States Navy officer and 12th Naval Governor of American Samoa

Spanish artist (1904-1989)

The National Raisin Reserve was a raisin reserve of the United States. It was created after World War II by the government in order to control raisin prices. The reserve was run by the Raisin Administrative Committee. It was enforced by means of a "marketing…

Bluey (7 June 1910 – 14 November 1939) was an Australian cattle dog owned by Les and Esma Hall of Rochester, Victoria, Australia. According to Guinness World Records, Bluey lived 29 years, 5 months and is the oldest dog ever verified. Two owners have made…

Jean-Luc Picard's age will break new ground in the franchise.

Thurman told The New York Times that Quentin Tarantino coerced her into driving the car, even though she was worried it might be unsafe.

To protect themselves from unwanted advances, city women protected themselves with some sharp accessories

Holocaust survivor, author

steel produced prior to the detonation of the first atomic bombs in the 1940s and 1950s, and so not contaminated with radionuclides

English physician, scientist and pioneer of vaccination