Welcome to Kennections, a weekly quiz created by ‘Jeopardy!’ host and champion Ken Jennings. Welcome to Kennections, a weekly quiz created by Jeopardy! host and champion Ken Jennings. Here’s how to ...

The 18th president's descendant had a storied career in museum curation before turning his attention to an affable vampire.

A report [ PDF] prepared by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration notes that 850,318 cars manufactured by Ford ...

Next time you’re in New York or certain cities in Europe, pay attention to the curved shape of the window bars around you—they’re there for a reason.

Both the Amazing Facts calendar and the Word Nerd calendar measure 4.6 inches by 4.6 inches, featuring tear-off pages and an ...

This is another riddle taken from one of the very first modern anthologies of riddles published in the English language, The Riddles of Heraclitus and Democritus, from 1598.

Brownsville, Texas, (population 185,000) bucks the trend of the 10-year collision average; typical drivers there go 14 years ...

Per the Oxford English Dictionary, the phrase dead weight can be traced back to the 1600s and is defined as the “weight of something which does not move by itself; a heavy, inert weight.” A ...

“Kevin sure made a beeline for that buffet,” one might say. Or, “Sarah made a beeline for the ER after breaking her tibia.” Every day, millions of people use the idiom make a beeline when ...

Hand fans were the emojis of the Victorian era, able to signal lust, hate, and everything in between.

‘Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater’ may not be the most kid-friendly nursery rhyme, as several interpretations of it involve murder.

A British university has bestowed an honorary doctorate of science on 98-year-old Rosemary Fowler, 75 years after she made a discovery that helped revolutionize particle physics. In 1948, Fowler ...