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True Crime Facts That Will Keep You Up At Night

November 12, 2020

Can’t get enough of those true crime podcasts? Then you’re going to love Portable Press’s Strange Crime. But until it arrives, delve into these stories about the most notorious, mysterious — and unsolved — criminal acts in American hist...

Laughter Is (Almost as Good as) the Best Medicine

November 9, 2020

If it feels good, do it, right? Well, not everything that’s pleasurable is healthy — an all-pizza diet is going to allow anyone to live to 100. But it’s really true for laughter. Everyone loves to laugh, at movies, each other, themselves, or...

Star Wars: Return of the Rise of the Trivia

November 6, 2020

It’s probably the most popular and beloved movie franchise of all time… so we had to go to a galaxy far away to find some Star Wars facts we’re pretty sure you haven’t heard before. And after all, October is Star Wars Reads Month. Bef...

Famous Female Firsts (That Aren’t So Famous)

November 3, 2020

Here are the stories of some women who broke down barriers and literally changed the world. Hannah Slater received a patent in 1793 for a new type of cotton thread that made textile manufacture simpler and faster. That enabled her husband to ...

Star Wars…From an Alternate Universe

October 27, 2020

George Lucas’s Star Wars saga spans nine main movies, spinoffs like Rogue One and Solo, and The Mandalorian. That’s a lot of Star Wars, and it doesn’t even count all these other Star Wars projects that almost got made…but didn’t. Be...