Only six football teams have been to more Superbowls than Up with People. The relentlessly upbeat performing group starred in five Superbowl halftime shows as well as the Indy 500, the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade, and even a presidential inaugur...

Sara Lee, Mr. Clean, and Mrs. Butterworth are not real people, but Ignacio Anaya, John Montagu, and Charles Boycott were. Who were they? Only the namesakes of two of the greatest foods ever invented and an oft-used kind of collective protest. O...

The emu is a national symbol of Australia. The large, flightless bird appears on Australia's coat of arms and its fifty-cent piece. So why did Australia declare war against emus in 1932? And how did the emus defeat them? On this week's show, we...

Quarks are the fundamental unit of matter and make up literally everything, including you, me, and the period at the end of this sentence. How did such an important idea get such a strange name? And why is Strange literally the name of a quark?...

The Feast of the Epiphany marks the twelfth and final day of Christmas, when the three wise men brought gifts for the baby Jesus. To celebrate this religious occasion, Shakespeare wrote a wild comedy with merriment, cross-dressing, and a love t...