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How Hot Is the Sun? Colder, the Closer You Get!
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How hot is the sun, and why does this star's atmosphere hit higher temperatures than its core? Read on to learn about the weird physics.
How to Get the Gig as a Super Bowl Official
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Only the best of the best make it to the Super Bowl. And that includes the NFL officials. HowStuffWorks looks at what it takes to ref the Big Game.
Is This NFL Team In the AFC or NFC?
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The National Football League is divided into two conferences, the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC). Conference alignment can make the difference between making the playoffs or staying home knitting an homage to Bill Belichick while watching "Golden Girls." Can you match these teams to the correct NFL conference?
How Old Was Jesus When He Died?
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While 33 is often the "go-to" answer to the question of how old was Jesus when he died, many scholars doubt that age is accurate.
Vincent van Gogh Final Paintings
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Vincent van Gogh completed nearly 80 paintings in two months in Auvers-sur-Oise before committing suicide. Learn about the works of Vincent van Gogh.
The Top 10 Daytona 500s Ever
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We've sorted through five decades of thrills and spills and pinpointed the 10 best Daytona 500s ever. See the list -- and let the arguments begin.
10 Things That Went Missing Without a Trace
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What do George Washington's false teeth, a 42-ton steel sculpture and the crew of Flight 19 have in common? They all mysteriously vanished.
Did James Earl Ray Really Kill Martin Luther King Jr.?
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More than 50 years after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by a lone bullet while standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel, questions still remain. Was James Earl Ray the sole gunman, or was it a conspiracy?
How Police Dogs Work
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K-9 cops can sniff out drugs, bombs and suspects that would leave human cops ransacking entire cities. Learn all about the K-9 police force.
10 Famous Paranormal Hoaxes
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Crop circles. Alien autopsies. Time travelers. These are just some of the paranormal phenomena that people have believed in but were later found to be hoaxes. Often, even when someone admitted to making it up, that didn't stop the true believers.