As the new year approaches, many people have decided to embark on new adventures. Perhaps you’ve decided that this is finally the year you’ll learn Spanish or figure out how to start sewing your own ...

You could live for a thousand years and barely scratch the surface of all of the information there is out there. There’s ...

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There are plenty of common knowledge facts we don't realize we don’t know until someone points them out. For instance, ask most people which planet is closest to Earth, and they’ll probably say Mars.

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Hinted at for months, Google formally launched its “Knowledge Graph” today. The new technology is being used to provide popular facts about people, places and things alongside Google’s traditional ...

Test your science knowledge by taking the interactive quiz. The short quiz tests your knowledge of questions recently asked in a national poll. After completing the quiz, you can compare your score ...

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