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Culture

Why David Lynch said eating the same meal every day helped spark his surreal creativity

"The purer the environment, the more fantastic the interior world can be"

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Money

77-year-old retired teacher moves onto a cruise ship because it's cheaper than a traditional home

Here's what it costs to live a life at sea.

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Wholesome

People are traveling over an hour to visit a 9-year-old's free compliment stand

He traded lemonade for kind words.

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Culture

These are the saddest songs ever recorded, according to researchers and listeners

They're not all sad in the same way.

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Animals

A sick cat in Morocco wandered up to a vet clinic and wound up with the perfect job

He became the clinic's "emotional support" animal.

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Science

Scientist 'disappointed' we have a 92 percent successful hiccup cure and nobody is talking about it

This one really flew under the radar.

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Money

Man in his 30s recycles nearly half a million cans to earn a down payment on a house

He had an epiphany after a music festival.

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Culture

Prince broke a borrowed guitar with a wild onstage toss in 2013. But the story ended well.

"I went through some complicated emotions," said The Roots' "Captain" Kirk Douglas

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Culture

John Lennon wrote a wise letter to an aspiring folk artist. It went undelivered for decades.

The story, including the Beatle's sage advice, wound up inspiring a film

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Culture

Airline backtracks after outrage for refusing to pay for working musician's broken guitar

They did the right thing.

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Culture

These 3 movies have the most brilliant opening-title sequences, according to critics

Overall, they're something of a lost art.

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Culture

Linguists found clues in Shakespeare's plays to find out what they originally sounded like

“We all come as strangers to Shakespeare’s sounds”

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Culture

Seth MacFarlane perfectly explains why there aren't any hopeful characters in TV and film anymore

"'The White Lotus' is brilliant, but no one [on the show] is someone you'd want to be."

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Animals

Drone pilot helps missing dog escape from coyote in dramatic video

The technology helped save the dog's life—in more ways than one.

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Animals

Brave pit bull saves unconscious owners by flagging down stranger

“This dog wanted me to follow him.”

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Culture

Brian Wilson was profoundly moved when Paul McCartney visited him and played a new Beatles song

The intimate encounter had a lasting impact: "[It] let me see my own songs more clearly."

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Culture

The Bee Gees' perfect harmonies and humor charmed Johnny Carson in acoustic performance

The Gibb brothers found a deeper level of emotion in "Massachusetts."

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