How Did Cranberries End Up on the Thanksgiving Table?
Cranberry sauce is a Thanksgiving tradition that probably wasn't at the first Thanksgiving. Today, it's hard to imagine…
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Cranberry sauce is a Thanksgiving tradition that probably wasn't at the first Thanksgiving. Today, it's hard to imagine…
Real ducks can be brown, white, gray, or black. But picture a rubber duck, and chances are it's yellow, with an orange beak a…
Crack open a walnut, and there it is: something that looks remarkably like a tiny brain. Two halves, countless wrinkles, all tuck…
The teeth on your house key don't actually grab anything. Instead, they position tiny pins inside the lock so its cylinder ca…
A goose flying behind another goose can benefit from air currents created by the bird ahead. But the best place to catch that ext…
An apple a day keeps the doctor away. But tucked inside this famously healthy fruit is a tiny surprise: seeds containing a compou…
Thanksgiving football didn't begin with the NFL. College teams were playing on the holiday decades before the league existed.…
Turn over a fine china plate. It might say Made in England, Germany, Japan, or somewhere else. Why is it still called “china”? …
A dentist helping create cotton candy sounds like the beginning of a joke. But in the late 1890s, dentist William Morrison teamed…
Words have histories, and the names of our months are no exception. September comes from the Latin word for 7, October from 8, an…
As a kid, you might have spent hours searching through patches of clover, hoping to find a lucky four-leaf clover. Maybe finding …
All summer, green leaves do the hard work of feeding a tree. Come fall, they steal the show. Yellow, orange, and red take cente…
A little laundry detergent can bring back a lot more than clean clothes. One whiff of freshly washed laundry, and suddenly, yea…
A performance ends, and a few hands begin to clap. Within seconds, the sound fills the room. We know exactly what it means: “Well…
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