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The Puritans banned alcohol? Invented happy hour rules? A look at what they actually did — and the 1781 hoax we still quote.

The Ivy League is an athletic conference, not an academic body — and that tells you everything about how university rankings actually work.

Two spouses, one passport line, two completely different rooms — and a 1980 study that upends what officers think they see.

Every strange thing about Teletubbies was a deliberate design choice — built around how two-year-olds actually perceive the world.

Nearly four million Americans say they've been abducted. Not one has produced a lab-verifiable artifact. What's going on?

Stomach bug recovery advice is being retired — and if you've had your gallbladder out, fasting hits differently.

Two centuries of the stethoscope — and why AI is now making it more useful than ever, not obsolete.