John Lennon likely never would have chosen to perform a Beatles song years after the band's breakup without the encouragement ...

U.S. mailboxes have been many different colors, but blue was adopted surprisingly recently. Here's the story behind the shade.

From opening for One Direction to going viral on Vine, and eventually selling out arenas across the globe, 5 Seconds of ...

Frida Kahlo was actually born 119 years ago today—though she often claimed to have been born slightly later, albeit for a very symbolic reason.

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From vibrant pop hits like “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” by Whitney Houston to electric hair metal anthems such as “Cherry Pie” by Warrant, that ‘80s energy shines through all the biggest songs. There ...

Tom Petty was the architect behind classic hits like “Don’t Do Me Like That” and “American Girl,” which he performed alongside his band The Heartbreakers, as well as solo classics like “Free Fallin’.” ...

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Smoking rates have drastically declined in the United States, but there are still smokers across the country who enjoy a cigarette, with some states seeing more users than others. But there are still ...

Famously, Paul McCartney awoke from a dream one day with the melody to “Yesterday” already in his head, and completed the tune (albeit with “scrambled eggs” use ...

The great Mexican artist Frida Kahlo once claimed to have suffered “two serious accidents” in her life. One was the notorious and near-fatal streetcar accident she was involved in 1925 at the age of ...

Real-life royal successions have a long history of becoming as bloody, brutal, and convoluted as anything found in HBO’s epic fantasy series House of the Dragon. Religion, politics, disputed claims, ...