Japan’s geisha are experts in their field, but they’re often treated like tourist attractions. See why Kyoto officials have had to crack down on tourist photos.

The gas station doesn’t know how much fuel you’re going to buy when you pay at the pump. To make sure you have enough funds ...

Once you notice how many cartoon characters have four fingers, it‘s hard to ignore. The artistic choice originated with Disney and other early animation studios in the 1920s, and since then it ...

Lindsay Lohan at the Los Angeles premiere of 'Mean Girls.' | Kevin Winter/GettyImages While studying drama at the University of Virginia in the early ’90s, Tina Fey and her college buddy Cady ...

The line “You’re gonna need a bigger boat” from Jaws (1975) has gone down as one of the most iconic quotes in movie history. Spoken by Chief Brody (Roy Scheider) moments after the eponymous ...

When it comes to finding love, not all cities are created equal. WalletHub’s recent analysis put over 180 U.S. cities to the test to see just how friendly they are to single people. While some ...

The SAT and ACT are standardized tests that can help students get into colleges and earn scholarships. Although they have similar content, they’re ultimately different in other aspects. Most ...

Whether you believe a customer is always right probably depends on which side of the counter you’re on. For shoppers, having a merchant who’s quick to rectify mistakes and listen to concerns ...

There's a fancy term for forgetting a word—'lethologica.'The word is ‘soup.’ | (Silhouettes) Malte Mueller/fStop/Getty Images; (Soup) peanutpie/DigitalVision Vectors/Getty Images ...

Do you often mix up antiques, memorabilia, and collectibles? If so, it‘s about time you learned the difference.

Archaeologists used to think that the Clovis people were the first inhabitants of the Americas some 13,500 years ago. The evidence from these ancient sites says otherwise.

Within the last 200 years, we’ve discovered about two dozen species of hominins in Europe, Africa, and Asia—which you can see laid out in this map.