What does the United States export the most, and which commodities does it love to bring in? With this data on American imports and exports, we can take a closer look at which items are packed tightly into those huge metal shipping containers.

Pliny the Elder, Latin in full Gaius Plinius Secundus, (born 23 ce, Novum Comum, Transpadane Gaul [now in Italy]—died August 24, 79, Stabiae, near Mount Vesuvius), Roman savant and author of the celebrated Natural History, an encyclopaedic work of uneven…

There are all the obvious reasons why it's good to be Tiger Woods -- oodles of cash, 79 tour wins, free shoes from Nike. And then there are the less obvious ones.

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Let’s dive right in to the story of Joseph Kerwin, aka the Michigan Pirate, aka the Erie Strangler.

Less than a hundred years ago, Austria wasn’t a landlocked central European nation, but a large empire with a coastline stretching from Trieste in the north to modern day Montenegro in the so…

Mewing is an internet craze that promises to change the shape of your jawline and fix other problems by changing the placement of your tongue in your mouth. Learn about the possible benefits and risks of mewing.

Ten minutes might seem to make more sense than a nine-minute snooze time, but there are a few good reasons why snooze is nine minutes.

The first season of True Detective, an American anthology crime drama television series created by Nic Pizzolatto, premiered on January 12, 2014, on the premium cable network HBO. The principal cast consisted of Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson, Michelle…

Lt. Col. William Rankin Ejected From An F-8 Crusader in A Thunderstorm At 50,000 ft. The Next 40 Minutes is Legend. If you grew up in the United States

Brendan Kelbie (Australia) has reclaimed the record for the tallest stack of M&M's®, with six.

Abraham Lincoln briefly considered going with them.

A $5.99 bottle of booze ended up fetching $34,375 earlier this year.

A heritable phenotype resulting from the self-administration of cocaine in rats was delineated. We observed delayed acquisition and reduced maintenance of cocaine self-administration in male, but not female, offspring of sires that self-administered cocaine.…

The ballistics tests prove that the serial killer is "somewhere in the Bay Area," said the...

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Elena Danielson presentation slides (pdf) It all happened with the speed of a start-up. Right after being hired as Stanford University's founding president in March 1891, David Starr Jordan recruited energetic faculty like math professor Joseph Swain, who…