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Here’s a myth you don’t want to test out, in part because you’ll have to commit a really [...]

As mobile phones have become increasingly common, collect calls (known as “reverse charge calls” [...]

In 1990, the BBC debuted a competitive cooking show called MasterChef. It aired for more than a decade, [...]

English is a funny language for many, many reasons. And a common way to make this point is via a jokey [...]

There’s a water treatment facility in Cádiz, Spain, which even if you knew of it, you probably didn’t [...]

In English, adjectives typically come before the nouns they modify — e.g. “large cat,” not [...]

If you grew up in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s, you know who the man pictured above is. [...]

Think about this for a moment: when was the last time you saw a president, a prime minister, or another chief [...]