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People in 1920s Berlin Nightclubs Flirted via Pneumatic Tubes
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How to Feed 10,000 Rebel Fighters for 50 Years
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A Decade Later, the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Has Left an Abyssal Wasteland
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A Secret Forest Grew for Millennia in North America Without Anyone Noticing
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Revisiting a 1958 Map of Space Mysteries
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Pumpkin Pie is a symbol of Northern aggression
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The Weird, Dangerous, Isolated Life of the Saturation Diver
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rezzeJ
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The Illegal Ramen Vendors of Postwar Tokyo
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The Perfectly Preserved World War I Trench.
tacocat
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Mindwolf
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Investigating Pennsylvania’s Very Pecular Penchant for the Potato Chip
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Victorians' Christmas Parlor Games Will Leave You Burned, Bruised, And Puking
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The Intrepid Mother and Son Who Unraveled The Moose Boulder Hoax
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The Doomed Mouse Utopia That Inspired the 'Rats of NIMH'
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mk
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A Hacker From South Africa Just Rescued The First NASA Computer In Space
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rrrrr
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Journey Into the World’s First Underwater Farm
novoblade
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rezzeJ
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Documenting America’s Long, Venerable Tradition of Roadside Dinosaurs
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ButterflyEffect
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How the Commodore Amiga Powered Your Cable System in the '90s
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Blood Falls
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In 1562 Map-Makers Thought America Was Full of Mermaids, Giants, and Dragons
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The Worst Paid Freelance Gig in History Was Being the Village Sin Eater
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The Skeleton Lake of Roopkund, India | Atlas Obscura
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How movie titles get lost in translation
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What happens if you run an aritificial neural network in reverse? It makes art.
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The Chef Recreating 18th-Century Recipes From a Thrift-Shop Find
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The Remarkable Story of a Woman Who Preserved Over 30 Years of TV History
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What Happens When Sister Cities Break Up?
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rezzeJ
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The Doomed Mouse Utopia That Inspired the ‘Rats of NIMH
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The ABCs of WWI, a British Wartime Alphabet Primer
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The Forgotten 'China Girls' Hidden at the Beginning of Old Films
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The Totally Jinxed Map of Global Superstitions
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