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Pop Culture

For 60 years, people have misheard the ‘pretend to pray’ lyric in ‘California Dreamin’.’ It totally changes the song.

Even Cass Elliot sang it wrong until bandmate Michelle Phillips corrected her.

Annie Reneau –
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Pop Culture

One of the Bee Gees’ most memorable songs began as a hit cover song by another group

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Pop Culture

Julia Stiles honors the late Heath Ledger with ’10 Things I Hate About You’ routine on ‘DWTS’

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Culture

9 common English words and phrases that take on entirely different meanings in England

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Family

Trendy ‘grandma showers’ get a lot of flack online, but when can they be a good thing?

Heather Wake – 9/30/2025
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Music

Legendary 2000s pop punk band fights the ticket monopoly with throwback ‘house party’ tour

Evan Porter – 5/27/2025
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Internet

Artist makes everyday spaces magical by cleverly adding pixelated, old-school pop-culture icons

Tod Perry & Upworthy Staff – 2/5/2025
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Humor

High school teacher gives his students a pop quiz on 90s slang words and it was ‘on fleek’

Heather Wake – 3/6/2025
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Culture

Dan Aykroyd’s great-grandfather wrote spooky seances in the early 1900s. They inspired the ‘Ghostbusters’ movie.

Emily Shiffer – 10/25/2026
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Culture

In 1933, Amelia Earhart revolutionized women’s fashion by creating aviator-themed activewear

Emily Shiffer – 10/25/2026
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Pop Culture

In 1966, Mike Nesmith played a goofy country song on The Monkees. Linda Ronstadt made it a hit.

Tod Perry – 10/25/2026
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Pop Culture

Kerri Strug vaulting with a severely injured ankle at the 1996 Olympics lands a bit differently now

Annie Reneau & Upworthy Staff – 10/24/2026
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Culture

Americans share 15 of the coolest things they’ve seen overseas that they want here. Like, now.

Tod Perry & Upworthy Staff – 10/23/2026

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