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Electric motors are inside all kinds of ordinary devices, using a power source to make motion. So what makes the motor go 'round?

Many Mexican traditions go back for hundreds of years. Read about Mexican traditional food, clothing, music and more at HowStuffWorks.

TV evolution has come a long way. See these pictures to go through the history of TV and TV evolution and learn about TV technologies.

There was a lot of beautiful stuff going on in the '80s. Then, there were the Garbage Pail Kids. Take a walk down memory lane with this icky quiz.

Controversy surrounds the removal of public monuments honoring the U.S. Confederacy. But who or what determines which monuments go up or come down?

As the world becomes more urbanized, the demand for sand, a key ingredient of concrete, keeps growing. But there's only so much sand to go around.

When that sandpaper tongue gets going on your face, does it mean your cat loves you, or simply likes the way you taste?

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.

Surely you've had the wind knocked out of you at some point in your life. But what's really going on inside your body?

Why is April 1 a day to play pranks on others? How did this tradition begin? And are you going to prank someone on April Fool's Day?

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