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A military campaign to stop emus destroying crops became a national embarrassment when the birds outsmarted bullets, terrain, and government resolve in just weeks.
Talking to your dog might not be a sign of loneliness—it could mean you're unusually good at reading minds, even canine ones.
A comedy about delusional founders is finding massive success with the delusional founders it mercilessly mocks.
The man who bet his career on a radical new show didn't live to see it become television history.
The actor who almost became Walter White—and the myth that's followed him ever since—reveals how close television came to a very different kingpin.
Alpine runoff contributes far more to four major European river systems than the mountains’ small area suggests, especially during summer. The percentages vary sharply by basin and depend on the timing of rain, snow and melt.
The record label that passed on four Liverpool musicians in 1962 made a decision that would cost them hundreds of millions in lost revenue.
One executive's throwaway concession became the blueprint for a $20 billion empire—and the moment Hollywood stopped understanding what it was actually trading away.
A banned-before-it-existed song became a phenomenon when one DJ's act of rebellion proved the gatekeepers catastrophically wrong.
The album that defined a generation was born from five people trapped in a studio together, singing their divorces into existence night after night.
The world's most-played wedding song is actually a chilling portrait of obsession that Sting has spent four decades trying to convince us to hear.
A songwriter's refusal to surrender half her song's rights to Elvis Presley's manager cost her nothing and earned her everything.
