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It was fascinating for me to recently learn that ketchup was once sold as medicine. Long before this ubiquitous condiment was used in fast-food meals and backyard barbecues, it was part of an ancient Chinese recipe to ferment seafood into a salty savory sauce that physicians at the time believed to be medicinal. British sailors

We are all kids at heart. So it may not come as a surprise that scores of adults are buying toys – a fascinating consumer trend. An emerging category known as “kidults” accounts for one-fourth of about $9 billion spent each year on toys and represents 60% of the industry’s dollar growth, which is pretty

Even though Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir has been performing for 57 years, he admitted in a new Guitar World interview to still getting stage fright. He also revealed that bandmate Jerry Garcia had the same crippling fear, arguing that it could have led to his death after years of a stage-fright triggered heroin addiction.