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Journalist Owen Williams thinks he's found the right way to hang toilet paper. He tweeted a picture of the first TP patent. The drawings, from 1891, show the paper clearly hanging over the roll.

Phone spammers are working overtime in 2017. Complaints about spam phone calls to the do not call list nearly doubled over the last year.

Prize-winning cheeses at a U.K. competition were stolen. Thieves need to remember what cheese is yours, and what's nacho cheese.

People across the country will gather to call for stricter gun regulations March 24. Tell us why you're participating in the march or a counterprotest.

President Trump's objection to Amazon's deal with the Postal Service is based on dodgy data.

The military rescues a U.S. Army prisoner of war in Iraq. The Pentagon confirms that 19-year-old Army Private First Class Jessica Lynch of Palestine, W.Va., has been returned to an allied-controlled area. Lynch was a supply clerk with a convoy that was ambushed on March 23 near the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah. NPR's Nick Spicer reports.

Good Girlsstar Retta joins Ophira Eisenberg and Jonathan Coulton to discuss three NHL trivia questions, one for each period in a regulation game.

Get out those guitars: It's music parody time in a word game where the names of famous musical acts are mashed up with regular-people occupations.

Our panelists predict, now that we've found life on Venus, what will be the next thing we find in space.

Sarah McCammon looks ahead on the COVID-19 front with science writer David Quammen.