J.K. Rowling invented Quidditch in a pub.
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This week, John Green goes around the country pointing out interesting things about all the state capitals.
Stanley Kubrick’s bleak Cold War satire 'Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb' belongs to a class and genre all its own.
Men with older sisters are less likely to be competitive, a new study finds.
Recordings released by NASA show just how noisy space can be if you know how to listen.
Whether because of inaction, rejection, or pure skullduggery, these 15 of New York City landmarks have been lost forever.
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