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Order out or dine in? Americans are often choosing the latter, and the restaurant industry is responding.

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Wind power in Texas consists of over 150 wind farms, which together have a total nameplate capacity of over 30,000 MW (as of 2020). If Texas were a country, it would rank fifth in the world: The installed wind capacity in Texas exceeds installed wind capacity…

Xenotransfusion (the transfusion of blood from another species) of canine blood to cats has been historically performed commonly and is still performed nowadays in some countries. Considering the current lack of commercial availability of haemoglobin-based…

Argentina is the home country in the world to be named an element. Argentina is named after silver.

Keith Roma personally saved the lives of over 200 people, making no less than four trips up Tower 1 in the process

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Author reveals Bill Wilson's acid theory, but his experiments upset other Alcoholics Anonymous members

Injuries to the penis from zipper entrapment are actually the most common cause of penile trauma in adults, with roughly 2,000 reported cases yearly. When they occur, the individual often presents to the emergency department with the prepuce caught in the…

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A mammoth is any species of the extinct elephantid genus Mammuthus, one of the many genera that make up the order of trunked mammals called proboscideans. The various species of mammoth were commonly equipped with long, curved tusks and, in northern species…

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“Waluigi for Smash!” the meme-lords cry. As fan-requested characters like Simon Belmont, Ridley, and King K.

Want to know where the original avocados came from? Avocados from Mexico shares more about the history of avocados and how they became a popular superfood.

Switzerland has raised the legal age of prostitution by two years, in a measure that brings it in line with an international convention it signed in 2010.

Scientists have found the flipside to being hangry

At the Arlanda airport in Stockholm, the bakery RC Chocolat runs a 24-hour hotel for sourdoughs. Anyone can store their dough there and be sure that it will be fed, massaged, and well taken care of.