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A basic rule throughout nature is that larger animals tend to live longer than smaller ones. Elephants saunter into their…

It’s not uncommon to hear something outside of your house, especially if it’s close to trash pick-up day. Raccoons and…

On this day 155 years ago, the world’s largest book was completed in the form of the entire Buddhist canon…

90 years ago today, the Godfather of Soul was born in South Carolina. James Brown, aka “Soul Brother No. 1”…

Happy 76th birthday to the great modern inventor, Sir James Dyson, who founded Dyson Ltd. and invented the cyclonic separation…

270 years ago today, publication of the Species Plantarum marked the formal beginning of the plant taxonomy, which would later be adopted by…

At Nura, in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, it’s two fresh rounds of butter-drenched naan, nestling a pair of warm Parker House rolls.…

30 years ago today, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) changed the world forever. Tim Berners-Lee, after creating the…

Happy 90th Birthday to Willie Nelson, the prolific American music icon who wrote his first song at age 7. He…

19 years ago, a famous fugitive was apprehended. Shrek the Sheep, a resident Merino “wether” (a castrated adult male sheep)…