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Mortgage payments can feel like a burden that lasts forever. Did you know however, that it's possible to pay down...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1266t2ee7CY Heading to college is exciting, but figuring out how to fund it can be overwhelming. With "NavigatingFinancial Aid: Your...

If you're on Medicare, did you know there could be extra monthly money in your pocket? It's true! You may...

In a Nutshell The 1994 Crime Bill, authored by then-Senator Joe Biden and signed into law by President Bill Clinton,...

Since the late '70s, US prisons have provided corporations with cheap, plentiful labor in the form of incarcerated people, most...

Two mathematician brothers, David and Gregory Chudnovsky, have held numerous world records for computing pi to the most decimal places....

You can’t climb Mount Everest on a whim -- permits to travel to the world’s highest mountain cost thousands of...

Abraham Lincoln is famous for many things, chief among them being the 16th United States President and that whole slave...

During a peak of violent crime in New York City, ordinary guy Bernhard Goetz made international headlines when he defended...

In what has been dubbed “the greatest art theft of the 20th century," an Italian thief by the name of...

Girls as young as five years old are sent to fattening farms in Mauritania where they are forced to consume...

First-time visitors to Paris are occasionally stricken with a disorder characterized by acute delusions, anxiety, feelings of persecution, and various...

Believe it or not, there are currently more tigers in the United States than anywhere else in the world -...

During the occupation of China, the Japanese army set up the secretive Unit 731. Behind closed doors doctors infected civilians...

Off the coast of mainland Japan, a chain of islands called the Izu Islands sits beneath a cloud of sulphur....

Since the 1990s, the Anderlecht Veterinary School has stood derelict in Brussels. The site was abandoned with all of its...

Top predators possess a range of intimidating adaptations that place a wide range of species in their kill zone. However,...

Although schwenkel sounds like a Yiddish euphemism for a gentleman’s nether parts, in reality, it was just part of a...

The hills may not really have eyes, but the oceans have actual meadows, thanks to a twist of botany. While...

Rosalia Lombardo died at aged 2 and her distraught parents had her embalmed. She was the last so-called "mummy" to...

Nearly all owls species fly by night, but only very small percentage of species, if any, in most bird families...