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See if your favorite holiday treat is on the list.

Can you figure out what the song is, or who performed it?

Scientists don't have a concrete answer for why people experience hypnic jerks. Here's what you need to know about these annoying but harmless twitches.

Strawberry pâte de fruit are the fanciest gumdrops you'll ever taste.

The chain was taken down by a hepatitis A outbreak and financial troubles in the early 2000s.

'Yogi's First Christmas' is getting a new life on streaming.

For millennia, people have celebrated the longest night of the year with these Yule traditions.

People in the past had a way with words when it came to describing activity between the sheets.

The six-sided tool helped make IKEA a household name. But did anyone named Allen have anything to do with it?

Here's how Jesmyn Ward's award-winning novel about Hurricane Katrina came to be.