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A skinny person tends to have less muscle mass than others, meaning their basal metabolic rate (BMR) is lower than those of…

And a number of people have died , typically due to intense laughter causing a heart attack or suffocation. Comedy shows should…

Love is what makes the world go round, after all. In a study, eight out of ten music genres reported the word…

About the same size as Pluto, the dwarf planet Haumea orbits the sun beyond Neptune and has rings that are similar to…

At 1.15 miles exactly, this whopping pizza was made in, you guessed it, Italy. But how? By the sweat of 250 chefs…

That’s the typical amount of time it takes to watch one episode of The Office. But in 2016, professional freediver Aleix Segura Vendrell…

The intuitive reason why humans blink so much, 15 to 20 times per minute, is for eye lubrication. But research suggests that…

When the iron heats up, the tower can be up to 15 centimeters (6 inches) taller due to thermal expansion.  

  The most popular, but likely wrong, theory is that yawning increases levels of oxygen to the brain. A more plausible theory:…

In about 20 years, the future could look eerily similar to Wall-E. Artificial intelligence expert Kai-Fu Lee said that 40 percent of human jobs…