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Before you fire up the grill, fire up your mind with over 60 trivia questions covering Labor Day history, long-weekend traditions, and cookout lore.

Nowadays, you can quite literally plan an entire trip with your phone, even after arriving at your destination. From booking hotels and train tickets in advance ...

Find out what Ancient Egyptians ate (and drank) to fuel a day of pyramid building.

Cookies rarely disappear because people stop liking them; they usually disappear because a bakery closes, a lawsuit lands, a private equity firm loads up the ba ...

Josephine Baker was one of the biggest stars of the 20th century. She used that status to collect information on the Nazis and fight for her chosen home.

Start a new month with a new batch of trivia questions.

From 24-hour pancake purveyors to underdog donut shops, these once-booming breakfast spots fueled generations of road-trippers and shift workers before falling ...

Find out whether your state is louder--or quieter--than most of the country.

For much of human history, people's nights may have been separated into two different sleeps.

Some were engineered out of existence. Others were banned outright.