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Jewish dietary law — kashrut, or, keeping kosher — prohibit the mixing of milk and meat. That [...]

Two fetuses, one womb. Twins? Usually — but not if they were conceived at different times. Possible? [...]

The late 1980s were a great time to collect baseball cards. In 1989, a company named Upper Deck debuted [...]

In an increasingly digital and mobile world, we’ve come more and more reliant on batteries to power our [...]

The image above is not of a squash. The yellow fruit (actually, an “accessory fruit”) is called a [...]

The second President of the United States, John Adams, died on July 4, 1826, fifty years to the day the [...]

Almost everyone has it. It — earwax, that is — is, mostly, gross, but it serves a few purposes: [...]

Guns. Arson. And, ice cream and superglue. Not a likely mix? In Glasgow’s East End in the 1980s, the [...]

The term “shotgun wedding” is, except in rare cases, no longer taken literally, at least [...]

Go to Vietnam and you’ll likely see the lizard, pictured right, on your dinner plate or on one of you [...]