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 ...

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.

However, there is a hack that can help you fold a fitted sheet as easily as the rest of your bedding set. Here’s how: First, hold the fitted sheet inside-out lengthwise with the bottom facing ...

Scanning the barcode on a loaf of ciabatta bread at a supermarket isn’t considered particularly revolutionary today, but before 1982, this wasn’t something you could cross off your to-do list ...

Remember Chuck E. Cheese? He’s back with arcades aimed at grown-ups featuring classic games, collectibles, and throwback ...

If city lights block the stars over your backyard, this map can help you hunt down the darkest skies for epic stargazing.

The term ball peen hammer first saw print in 1874, when a mechanic’s dictionary referred to it as a “metal worker’s hammer ...

When we say something “sticks out like a store thumb,” we mean it’s conspicuous, obvious, or unusual (and typically not in a good way).

Adult fennec foxes (Vulpes zerda), which live in the deserts of North Africa and the Arabian peninsula, are the smallest species of true fox with one of the animal kingdom’s largest ear-to-body ...

It’s been some 40,000 years since the last Homo neanderthalensis, or Neanderthals, disappeared from sight. Our closest human relative, the Neanderthal continues to fascinate scientists and the ...

Although most people don’t need to wash their hair daily, many keep up the habit anyway. But if daily shampooing is unnecessary for most, how often should it be done? There’s no one-size-fits ...

A Bitcoin-promoting console. | Joe Raedle/GettyImages One highly publicized report from Bloomberg back in November 2020 stated that researchers at Flipside Crypto found that 2 percent of accounts ...