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At just under 750,000 km2 (288,000 square miles), Borneo is the third-largest island on the planet, after [...]

“Please listen carefully because our menu options have changed.” There are worse sentences in the English [...]

Hi! I’m going to ask you to do me a quick favor today: Forward this email to a friend. Tell them how much [...]

Pictured above is the artwork used for a puzzle titled “Holidays In New York.” The scene shows [...]

In the mid-1940s, an Australian teenager named James Harrison (above, much later in life) lost a lung to [...]

Weddings are a reason to celebrate — for many of us, we’ll only have one in our lifetimes. We invite our [...]

On February 20, 1992, one of the best episodes of The Simpsons made its debut. “Homer at the Bat” — the [...]

Hi! Over the years, I’ve used this Friday space to share a lot of things, including games I play during the [...]

A Classical Way to Save the Whales In 1986, a man from Iowa led a team of explorers in a desperate attempt to [...]

If you spend enough time on TikTok today, you’ll find a bunch of kids ages 13-24 covering their pets in [...]