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  A typical person blinks 15 to 20 times a minute, constituting as much as 10% of our waking [...]

The city of Shenzen, China, is home to more than 10 million people. Situated just north of Hong Kong, it’s [...]

  Pictured above are gas prices. If you’re in the United States, you probably barely notice the [...]

Superman: he’s faster than a speeding bullet. He’s more powerful than a locomotive. He’s [...]

Lal Bihari was born in the Indian province of Uttar Pradesh in 1955. He was pronounced dead sometime in 1975, [...]

The princess didn’t want to marry Prince Valium — he was a bore, she was looking for love, and she [...]

  Many advances in science or technology are named after their inventors. This is often true in warfare; [...]

You probably know the name Aesop, a Greek storyteller who is credited with writing hundreds of fables, many [...]

  The book pictured above, available here for about $10, is — as the cover suggests — [...]

  The Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh is the only hospital in southwestern [...]