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The 2013 movie Frozen (which you probably should watch if you haven’t) opens with an squadron of men, armed [...]

If you try to access the Internet from within China, you’ll find that it’s a much different experience [...]

  The image above is a screenshot from the iconic 1991 arcade game Street Fighter II. In the game, [...]

  Pictured above is a relatively recent map of Eastern Europe. To the north of Hungary, you’ll [...]

The town of Folsom, New Mexico isn’t named after the prison made famous by the Johnny Cash song. It isn’t [...]

In most places in the United States and, probably, the Western world, McDonald’s and other fast food joints [...]

The U-boat was a German submarine from World War II, one which at the time went unrivaled by the rest of the [...]

In 1949, Pope Pius XII honored a Brazilian philanthropist named Francisco Scarpa for his charitable [...]

There’s a 90% or so chance that you’re something called a “trichromat.” The rest of you are almost [...]

The term “coronal mass ejection” sounds like something best avoided, even if one has no idea what it [...]