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Four weeks and 4,000 miles is a long time to get by on catnaps during a solo sailing race.

The words aren't arbitrary, so why do pilots and sailors call out 'Mayday!' rather than something else?

HowStuffWorks looks at the job categories with the highest suicide rates, according to the CDC.

Hedwig Kohn left Nazi Germany for the U.S. in 1940 and became a leading physicist. HowStuffWorks looks at her extraordinary life.

Should the U.S. add some states? HowStuffWorks asks the question.

Predictive programming is the idea that the media can predict and prepare us for the future. Stuff They Don't Want You to Know investigates.

If dinosaurs hadn't gone extinct, you wouldn't exist. Extinction may seem inherently bad, but sometimes the death of a species encourages new life.

A viral e-mail spread the idea that aspartame causes MS. Find out whether this claim is true at HowStuffWorks.

The dangers of food additives are many, and these chemicals are prevalent in today's foods. Learn about the potential dangers of food additives.

Fans of Dairy Queen's Blizzard might be shocked to know that frozen stuff isn't ice cream. HowStuffWorks finds out what it really is.

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