As we have probably often experienced, memories are not always as exact as we remember them. They can be highly suggestible and influenced by others’ recollections, pictures, the passage of ...

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The song “Happy Birthday To You” is easily the most popular song in the world, but there is a strange and complicated history behind this song. You also might not ...

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Marcin Wichary/Flickr The hit TV show, The Office, ran from 2005–2013 and is now in syndication. The mockumentary about a paper company’s employees and their work lives won the Golden ...

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Play-Doh has been loved by kids for years as a way to make just about anything, but Play-Doh’s original purpose wasn’t as modeling clay as it is today. It was ...

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Do you know these famous slogans from the world of advertising? Test your slogan knowledge to see how well the ad companies have done their jobs. Start me up. Microsoft had ...

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We’re all probably familiar with the canned laughter that takes place on television sitcoms, but how and why did this laughter, known as a laugh track, get started? Added laughter ...

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Sometimes the best part about going to the movie theater is watching the previews of upcoming movies, but these previews are commonly referred to as “trailers.” Knowing the meaning of ...

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Cliffs Notes are the yellow and black study guide that helped us understand wondrous and complicated pieces of world literature. Want to know what the heck Shakespeare was talking about ...

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If you live in the United States, you’re probably familiar with the Energizer Bunny. It’s usually seen beating a drum with the tagline, “It keeps going, and going, and going.” ...

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Daytime dramas are known as soap operas, but where did the moniker come from, and when did it happen? The origin of the soap opera can be traced back to ...

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The Pacific island country of Tuvalu In 1995, the tiny Pacific island country of Tuvalu received news that it had been assigned “.tv” by the Internet Telecommunication Union as its ...

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