Efforts to ban queer books have been on the rise, but these gripping reads by authors like Sonora Reyes and Stephen Chbosky ...

Lauren Cahn of Reader’s Digest covered a few possible reasons, and not all of them are benign. One popular theory holds that ...

The name Antonio crops up several times across Shakespeare’s plays, and it’s been theorized that rather than being separate ...

William Haines was sure he’d be fired one day. The twentysomething worked as an errand runner for a financial office in New ...

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The economy might be booming, but that’s not good news for renters. Year over year, the costs associated with leasing ...

Pills come in orange containers for a clever reason. / Tetra Images/Getty Images (bottles), Jon Mayer/Mental Floss (thought ...

Here’s a breakdown of these breeds, why they were selected, and what you should keep in mind the next time you em-‘bark’ on a ...

The portable forensics kits that modern investigators use were inspired by bare hands at the scene of a horrific murder.

Medical care has come a long way over the centuries. What once struck us down in the prime of our lives—infections, wounds, ...

There’s an Irish saying used to describe someone who has it easy: tá saol an mhadaidh bháin agat, or “the life of the white ...

No judgment here: We all forget things from time to time. Even movie stars—they’re just like us!—occasionally blank (or pretend they do) on having appeared in a movie, with the cameo-friendly MCU ...