Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson
By Brady Carlson
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Three minutes each weekday of cool facts, weird news and awesome discoveries with Brady Carlson. Back us at http://patreon.com/bradycarlson
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“O Holy Night” May Have Been The First Christmas Song Played On The Radio
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Dec 12, 2025 |
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Jakob Mierscheid, The Imaginary Member Of Germany’s Real Parliament
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Dec 11, 2025 |
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To Make A Cold War Documentary, NBC Funded An Escape Tunnel Under The Berlin Wall
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Dec 10, 2025 |
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How Donny Hathaway’s “This Christmas” Became A Song For Every Christmas
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Dec 09, 2025 |
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This Robot Could Plant Baby Trees To Reforest An Area After A Forest Fire
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Dec 08, 2025 |
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Bat Week: Libraries In Portugal Are Preserving Old Books With Help From Bats
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Dec 05, 2025 |
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Bat Week: Bats Who Randomly End Up Living Together Sometimes Become Friends
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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Bat Week: Bats Can Predict Where Their Prey Is Headed
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Dec 03, 2025 |
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Bat Week: Babies Babble, And So Do Baby Bats
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Dec 02, 2025 |
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Bat Week: Bats Can Remember Our Ringtones
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Dec 01, 2025 |
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Train Cars, A Trip To The Beach And Telegraphs Helped Inspire The Bar Code
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Nov 28, 2025 |
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Thanksgiving Without Cranberries? For Many Americans In 1959, It Happened
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Nov 27, 2025 |
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The Tan Hill Inn, Where Getting Snowed In With Strangers Can Actually Be Fun
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Nov 26, 2025 |
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Mr. Delicious, The Fast Food Mascot Who Sold Roast Beef With A Side Of Middle-Aged Angst
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Nov 25, 2025 |
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Bessie Blount Griffin Invented A Way For Veterans With Disabilities To Feed Themselves, And So Much More
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Nov 24, 2025 |
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PropType Turns Almost Any Surface Into An Augmented Reality Keyboard
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Nov 21, 2025 |
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Yo-Yos Work A Little Differently In Space Than Here On Earth
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Nov 20, 2025 |
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How Bullwinkle Once Managed To Honk Off A Lot Of TV-Owning Parents
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Nov 19, 2025 |
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Peel Off A Layer Of This Paper Plate For Earth’s Sake
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Nov 18, 2025 |
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Pedestrianism, The Enormously Popular 19th Century Sport Where People Went For Really Long Walks
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Nov 17, 2025 |
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“In A Pickle” Is A Phrase That Doesn’t Have Much To Do With Actual Pickles
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Nov 14, 2025 |
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We Can Drop Artificial Snow With Help From Airplanes, But Machines Are Probably Easier
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Nov 13, 2025 |
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Some Spiders May Add Extra Threads To Webs That Let Them Know When There’s Prey Nearby
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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During The Battle Of The Bulge, Vincent Speranza Made A Beer Run For The Ages
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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Before Hitting It Big With His Novels, Kurt Vonnegut Invented A Board Game
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Nov 10, 2025 |
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Telephone Week: 39 Years After Making The First Phone Call, Alexander Graham Bell Joined A Transcontinental Conference Call
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Nov 07, 2025 |
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Telephone Week: When Maasai Herders Call The Wrong Number, They May End Up Making A New Friend
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Nov 06, 2025 |
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Telephone Week: The Undertaker Who Developed Automatic Phone Dialing
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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Telephone Week: Indiana Bell Rotated And Moved Its Office Building – And Kept Working There During The Move
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Nov 04, 2025 |
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Telephone Week: In Rural America, Some People Turned Their Wire Fences Into Phone Lines
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Nov 03, 2025 |
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If You’re Out Guising On Halloween Night In Scotland, Have A Few Jokes Or Songs Handy
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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Halloween Hoaxes About World War III Don’t Work So Well, As A California High School Found Out
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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“Cat Man” Rex Shepherd Helped Put Some Of The British Museum’s Feral Cats To Work
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Oct 29, 2025 |
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KISS Made A TV Movie Where They Fought Their Evil Clones At An Amusement Park
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Oct 28, 2025 |
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There’s A Fake House In Brooklyn That Covers Up Real Subway Equipment
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Oct 27, 2025 |
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During The Great Depression, A Community In California Used Clamshells As Temporary Money
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Oct 24, 2025 |
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When It’s Sheep Shearing Time In Wales, It’s Time To Break Out The Special Shearing Cake
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Oct 23, 2025 |
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Jet Black Is Named For A Gemstone, Not Jet Planes
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Oct 22, 2025 |
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There’s A Forest In Indiana That Grows Wood For The USS Constitution
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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How Ford Put A Mustang High Up On The Empire State Building
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Oct 20, 2025 |
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Hockey Week: Some American Hockey Players Develop Canadian-Ish Accents
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Oct 17, 2025 |
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Hockey Week: Meet The Zamboni Who Invented The Zamboni
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Oct 16, 2025 |
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Hockey Week: What Does It Take To Be Great At Underwater Hockey?
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Oct 15, 2025 |
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Hockey Week: Eddie Shore, The Hockey Player Who Would Do Anything To Make The Game
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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Hockey Week: The Canadiens And Maple Leafs Had A Brawl, And A Hockey Game Broke Out
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Oct 13, 2025 |
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The Hearing Car Is Testing Whether Self-Driving Vehicles Need More Senses On The Road
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Oct 10, 2025 |
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A Radio Show In Tennessee Told Listeners They Had To Recycle Their Old-Style $20 Bills
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Oct 09, 2025 |
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Otto The Octopus Was Really Good At Getting Into Mischief
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Oct 08, 2025 |
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The Soviet Union Put Out An Official Cookbook Of “Tasty And Healthy Food”
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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The Benshi Were Japan’s Silent Movie Whisperers
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Oct 06, 2025 |
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Times New Roman, A 1930s Typeface, Is Still A Top Font In The 21st Century
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Oct 03, 2025 |
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The Furby Fad Of The 1990s Briefly Became A National Security Concern
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Oct 02, 2025 |
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Smith Island Cake Is Maryland’s Official State Dessert
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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How William Wrigley Went From Soap Guy To Baking Powder Guy To Chewing Gum Giant And Baseball Owner
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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Önneköp Is A Micronation In Sweden That Celebrates “Cuckoo-Coffee”
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Sep 29, 2025 |
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Pizza Week: The Pizza And Pipe Organ Connection
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Sep 26, 2025 |
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Pizza Week: Math Says You Get More Pizza With A Large Instead Of Two Mediums
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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Pizza Week: Detroit-Style Pizza Got Its Shape From Another Famous Detroit Industry
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Sep 24, 2025 |
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Pizza Week: Steve Jobs, The First Person To Order A Pizza Online
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Sep 23, 2025 |
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Pizza Week: How Chuck E. Cheese Became The World’s Top Animatronic Mouse Video Gamer And Pizza Restaurateur
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Sep 22, 2025 |
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Nadia Sparkes Started Picking Up Litter On The Way To School And Became “Trash Girl”
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Sep 19, 2025 |
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Muslims Pray Toward Mecca - Which Can Be A Challenge For Muslim Astronauts On A Space Station
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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The Who’s American TV Debut Really Blew Up, Especially Keith Moon’s Drums
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Sep 17, 2025 |
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Why 90s Screen Savers Were Full Of Flying Toasters And Endless Mazes
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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We’ll Miss Maru, The Box-Obsessed Celebrity Internet Cat
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Sep 15, 2025 |
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How Pink Floyd Got A Man On Fire Onto An Album Cover
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Sep 12, 2025 |
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Roselle The Guide Dog Helped Her Human Get To Safety During The 9/11 Attacks
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Sep 11, 2025 |
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Why Take A Bath Or A Shower When You Can Hop Into A “Human Washing Machine”?
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Sep 10, 2025 |
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Teddy Bears Were Once The Big Threat To American Youth
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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Robert Coates, The Stage Actor Who Was So Terrible He Became A Legend
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Sep 08, 2025 |
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Sports Get Wild Week: Maryland’s Official State Sport Is Jousting
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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Sports Get Wild Week: “Steady” Ed Headrick, the “Father of Disc Golf”
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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Sports Get Wild Week: The Time A Golfer Won The US Open While Suffering From Dysentery
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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Sports Get Wild Week: The Netherlands Turned Pole-Sitting Into A Competitive Sport
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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Sports Get Wild Week: In The 1920s There Was A Footrace From Los Angeles To New York
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Sep 01, 2025 |
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Most School Buses Are Bright Yellow For Exactly The Reasons You’d Probably Expect
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Aug 29, 2025 |
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Before Humans Ever Went To Space, A Mom In France Tried Training Her Son To Be An Astronaut
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Aug 28, 2025 |
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Inventor Becky Schroeder Had A Patent Before She Was A Teenager
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Aug 27, 2025 |
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Rip The Dog Helped Rescue Londoners From Bomb Damaged Buildings During The Blitz
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Aug 26, 2025 |
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The Great Moon Hoax Showed Misinformation Spread In The 19th Century Much Like It Does Today
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Aug 25, 2025 |
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A Formerly Enslaved Man Roasted His Former Master In A Classic Letter
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Aug 22, 2025 |
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A Restaurant In Wisconsin Keeps Goats On The Roof
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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Isabel Morgan Unlocked The Mysteries Of Polio On The Road To A Vaccine
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Aug 20, 2025 |
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Potatoes Have Made Their Contribution To World Peace
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Aug 19, 2025 |
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Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds” Was Partly Based On Real Bird Weirdness
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Aug 18, 2025 |
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When Eating With A Fork Was Scandalous
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Aug 15, 2025 |
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The Guy Who Officially Had The First Social Security Number
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Aug 14, 2025 |
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A Guy In Saudi Arabia Has Over 400 Video Game Consoles Connected To A Single TV
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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“Drop Kick Me Jesus” Is Country Music’s “Christian-Football Waltz”
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Aug 12, 2025 |
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A Fair In Washington State Is Famous For Its Spaceburgers
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Aug 11, 2025 |
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Here’s A Robot That’s Learning To Make Us Pizzas
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Aug 08, 2025 |
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The Winchester Mystery House Probably Wasn’t Built To Be Mysterious
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Aug 07, 2025 |
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Campbell’s Soup Grew To Love Andy Warhol’s Soup Can Paintings, Just Maybe Not Right Away
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Aug 06, 2025 |
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The “ManhattAnt” Is New York City’s Very Own Ant Species
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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Brad Lewis Kept His Son Safe As They Both Fell Off A Balcony
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Aug 04, 2025 |
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“Illustrated Songs” Were Proto-Music Videos Almost A Century Before MTV
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Aug 01, 2025 |
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One Of MGM’s Roaring Lions Lived A Life Even Stranger Than The Movies
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Jul 31, 2025 |
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Ford Once Tried To Replace The Steering Wheel With A “Wrist Twist” System
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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Bacteria Can Consume Used Plastic And Turn It Into Medicine
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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We’ve Tried Quite A Few Times To Send Mail By Rocket
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Jul 28, 2025 |
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Books And Authors Week: Meet Some Of The Oldest Books Ever Found
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Jul 25, 2025 |
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Books And Authors Week: Does A Book With 1,250 Endings Ever Really End?
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Jul 24, 2025 |
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Books And Authors Week: I Review The Body Electric
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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Books And Authors Week: A Big-Time Librarian Kept “Goodnight Moon” Off The Shelves For 25 Years
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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Books And Authors Week: Never Skip The Dedication Page Of A Book, They Can Get Wild
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Jul 21, 2025 |
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The North Pole Moved Three Feet Because Of Dams
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Jul 18, 2025 |
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Watergate Salad Is An Actual Sweet Dish Named For Our “Long National Nightmare”
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Jul 17, 2025 |
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A Blood Sample From A Late Composer Is Powering A Musical Experiment
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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Guitarist Cordell Jackson Was Rocking Out Before There Was Rock Music
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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A Burma-Shave Ad Offered A Trip To “Mars,” And A Guy Tried To Take That Trip
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Jul 14, 2025 |
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Quiet Riot’s Biggest Hit Came From A Recording Session They Tried To Tank
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Jul 11, 2025 |
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Which Horse Is On Wyoming’s License Plate? It's Complicated
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Jul 10, 2025 |
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The BBC Once Reported That Cows Might Have Accents
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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A Shop In Small-Town Nebraska Gave The World The Tin Roof Sundae
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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Tiny Swarms Of Robots Might Help Us Get Through Sinus Infections
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Jul 07, 2025 |
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How Fireworks Illuminate Independence Day, The Way John Adams Wanted
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Jul 04, 2025 |
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The Original Version Of The Michelin Man Was Kind Of Terrifying
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Jul 03, 2025 |
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Graham Island, The Mediterranean’s Disappearing Volcanic Island
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Jul 02, 2025 |
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How Canada’s Flag Ended Up With A Maple Leaf Instead Of Union Jacks, Beavers Or Mounties
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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June Robertson McCarroll, The Doctor Who Painted A Line Down The Middle Of The Road
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Jun 30, 2025 |
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Fashion Week: The Jumpsuit Century
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Jun 27, 2025 |
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Fashion Week: The Fabric With A Built-In Cooling System
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Jun 26, 2025 |
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Fashion Week: The Plastic Bags Of Today Could Be The Fashionable Fabric Of Tomorrow
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Jun 25, 2025 |
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Fashion Week: Bioprinting Clothes (And More) Out Of Algae
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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Fashion Week: The First Top Hat Got Its Inventor Arrested
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Jun 23, 2025 |
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Monkeys Follow Some Of The Same Economic Principles As Humans Do
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Jun 20, 2025 |
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How The Juneteenth Holiday Spread From Galveston, To Texas, To The Whole United States
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Jun 19, 2025 |
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The Vatican Once Sang The Praises Of The Blues Brothers
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Jun 18, 2025 |
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To Get Kids To Eat Their Veggies, A Company Sold A Line Called “I Hate Peas”
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Jun 17, 2025 |
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Cracker Jack Originally Came With More Peanuts And No Prizes
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Jun 16, 2025 |
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The Man Versus Horse Marathon Is Pretty Much What The Name Suggests
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Jun 13, 2025 |
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Easy Listening Emerged From When Radio Programmers Tried To Target Women
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Jun 12, 2025 |
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The Centuries-Long Quest To Choose A Punctuation Mark For Irony And Sarcasm
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Jun 11, 2025 |
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The US Once Had A National Raisin Reserve
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Jun 10, 2025 |
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Don Ritchie, “The Angel of the Gap”
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Jun 09, 2025 |
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As The Allies Stormed The Beaches On D-Day, Bill Millin Played The Bagpipes
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Jun 06, 2025 |
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When Teenager Michael Chang Beat The World’s Top Tennis Player At The French Open
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Jun 05, 2025 |
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Tyromancy Is The Practice Of Fortune Telling Through Cheese
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Jun 04, 2025 |
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Living Wall Coatings Could Make City Buildings Greener
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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The ReefRanger Is A Robot That Could Help Restore Coral Reefs
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Jun 02, 2025 |
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Home Sweet Home Week: There’s A House In The Middle Of France’s Loire River
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May 30, 2025 |
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Home Sweet Home Week: In The 60s, There Was A Plan To Make Houses Out Of Heineken Bottles
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May 29, 2025 |
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Home Sweet Home Week: The Spite House, An Elegant, Expensive Way To Get Back At Somebody
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May 28, 2025 |
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Home Sweet Home Week: A Guy In Massachusetts Made Pretty Much His Whole House Out Of Old Newspapers
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May 27, 2025 |
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Home Sweet Home Week: They Built A Real-Life Simpsons House In Nevada
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May 26, 2025 |
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Leonard Nimoy Once Drove The Bangles Around In A Music Video
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May 23, 2025 |
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When Mailman Floyd Martin Retired, The People On His Route Gave Him A Big Sendoff
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May 22, 2025 |
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Betty Crocker May Not Be A Real Person, But She’s Been A Real Help To Bakers For Years
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May 21, 2025 |
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How The Streisand Effect Makes The Information People Want Hidden More Popular
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May 20, 2025 |
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Ohio Was The 17th State, And Also Kind Of The 48th
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May 19, 2025 |
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Calvin Coolidge’s Family Kept Their Pet “William Johnson Hippopotamus” At The National Zoo
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May 16, 2025 |
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Williamina Fleming, The Onetime Maid Who Became A Legendary Astronomer
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May 15, 2025 |
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Stop Signs Used To Be Yellow
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May 14, 2025 |
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The Real-Life Kid Who Inspired Ezra Jack Keats’ “The Snowy Day”
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May 13, 2025 |
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The Strange Story Of Ireland’s Worst Driver Ever
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May 12, 2025 |
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“Pomp And Circumstance,” A Graduation Musical Tradition, Was Not Written For Graduations
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May 09, 2025 |
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Oatman, Arizona, The Gold Rush Town That’s Now Home To Wild Donkeys
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May 08, 2025 |
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We Could Run Our Smart Speakers By Writing Into The Air
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May 07, 2025 |
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The Only Guy Who Ever Broke Into The Bank Of England’s Vault Of Gold
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May 06, 2025 |
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Chimps Apparently Like To Get Together For Drinks
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May 05, 2025 |
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Map Week: Every Six Months This Island Switches Countries
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May 02, 2025 |
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Map Week: Canada Was Almost Named “Borealia”
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May 01, 2025 |
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Map Week: How To Find Where You Are In Just Three Words
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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Map Week: Earth Has Five Oceans Now, But Also Just One Ocean, It’s Complicated
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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Map Week: Point No Point And Other Amazing, Actual Places
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Apr 28, 2025 |
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Ella Fitzgerald And Marilyn Monroe Were Kind Of Besties For A While
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Apr 25, 2025 |
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A Political Dispute In Washington State Led To A Weird Race Between The Governor And Lieutenant Governor
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Apr 24, 2025 |
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When Key West Left The US To Become The Conch Republic
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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Planet Earth Got Its Name From The Earth Beneath Us
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Apr 22, 2025 |
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Queen Elizabeth II Wrote A Letter To Sydney, Australia That Won’t Be Opened Until 2085
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Apr 21, 2025 |
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A Town In Northern Japan Says It’s Home To The “Tomb Of Christ”
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Apr 18, 2025 |
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In Sweden And Finland, The Thursday Before Easter Is The Time For Trick-Or-Treating Witches
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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On The Micronesian Island Of Yap, Huge Stone Discs Are Used As Money
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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A Museum In Virginia Is Home To A Ham From 1902
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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Don Calhoun, The Fan Who Hit The Chicago Bulls’ “Million Dollar Shot”
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Apr 14, 2025 |
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America’s Oldest Board Game Was A Road Trip Through The Early US
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Apr 11, 2025 |
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Walter Hunt Invented The Modern Safety Pin To Pay Off A $15 Debt
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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Pennsylvania Once Tried To Make It A Crime To Mock The Governor In Editorial Cartoons
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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The Physiophone Turned Music Into Physical Sensations For Deaf People To Enjoy, And Dance To
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Apr 08, 2025 |
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Beavers Build Dams That Can Last Centuries, Maybe Even Millennia
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Apr 07, 2025 |
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Some Spiders In Loud Areas Soundproof Their Webs
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Apr 04, 2025 |
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To Protect Riders, This 3D Printed Bike Helmet Contracts During A Collision
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Apr 03, 2025 |
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Scientists Sent A Diaper-Wearing Ferret Named Felicia Through A Particle Accelerator
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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The BBC Once Ran An April Fools Day Story About Spaghetti Growing On Trees
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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An Engineer Wanted To Add Car Ramps To The Eiffel Tower
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Mar 31, 2025 |
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“Wing Walker” Gladys Ingle Could Change An Airplane’s Tire In The Middle Of The Sky
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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Eliza Scidmore Lobbied For Decades To Bring Cherry Blossoms To Washington DC
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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The Supremes Were Such A Popular Group, They Had Their Own Bread
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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How A “Sea-Worm” Inspired Marc Brunel To Dig London’s Thames Tunnel
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Mar 25, 2025 |
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A Teacher In Illinois Made The Washington DC Trip A Spring Break Tradition
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Mar 24, 2025 |
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Farm Week: When A Giant Safe Showed Up In His Yard, A New York Farmer Decided To Embrace The Mystery
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Mar 21, 2025 |
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Farm Week: Dogs Are Saving Citrus Orchards From Disease
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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Farm Week: Robots And Soap Bubbles Might Help Pollinate Crops
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Mar 19, 2025 |
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Farm Week: Laser Apple Robots
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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Farm Week: That Time More Than 300 Nebraskans Moved A Barn By Hand
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Mar 17, 2025 |
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Tim Wong Became The Best Friend A Rare Butterfly Ever Had
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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SS Baychimo, The “Ghost Ship” That Kept Reappearing In The Ocean
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Mar 13, 2025 |
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Mitchelville Was The First US Town Led By Formerly Enslaved People
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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The “Petticoat Rulers” Of Jackson, Wyoming
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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In The 1950s, Groups Of College Students Tried To Cram Themselves Into Phone Booths
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Mar 10, 2025 |
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For 18 Days, Lake Champlain Was A Great Lake
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Mar 07, 2025 |
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During World War II, The US Used Trampolines To Train Pilots
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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Edith Keating Let The World See What The World Looked Like From The Air
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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King Cakes: Two Holidays, Three Colors, Lots Of Little Plastic Babies
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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There’s An Official Spanish-Language Version Of “The Star-Spangled Banner”
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Mar 03, 2025 |
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The Most Interesting Story Out Of Boring, Oregon Involves A Boxing Champion And A “Town Pest”
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Feb 28, 2025 |
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The Philadelphia Phillies Were Also Sort Of The “Blue Jays” For A While
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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The Fight Of The 80s Was Johnny Cash Vs. Waldo The Ostrich
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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The Squeaky History of the Rubber Duck
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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The Keys To Rescuing One Dolphin? An NBA Player’s Long Arms
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Feb 24, 2025 |
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Paint Week: “Fordite” Is The Gem Made From Paint At Auto Factories
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Feb 21, 2025 |
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Paint Week: Really, Really White Paint Can Act Like A Coat Of Air Conditioning On A Building
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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Paint Week: The Race To Keep Day-Glo Paints Glo-ing
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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Paint Week: With Solar-Reflective Paint, School Playgrounds Are Getting Cooler
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Feb 18, 2025 |
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Paint Week: “Mummy Brown” Was A Paint Made From Actual Mummies
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Feb 17, 2025 |
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Elvis Once Bought A Yacht That Franklin Roosevelt Used As President
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Feb 14, 2025 |
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Walk On This High-Tech Goo And It’ll Make Electricity
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Feb 13, 2025 |
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Long Before He Was President, Abraham Lincoln Was A Tavern Owner
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Feb 12, 2025 |
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For One Supreme Court Nominee, The Nation’s Number One Question Was About His Mustache
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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Margaret Horton Hung Onto The Tail Of A British Warplane As It Took Off And Flew
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Feb 10, 2025 |
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What Football Was Like Before The Forward Pass
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Feb 07, 2025 |
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Classical Music Can Calm A Fetus’s Heart Rate
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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Turn-On, The TV Show That Got Pulled Off The Air During Its Premiere
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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How Wichita Falls, Texas Became Home To “The World’s Littlest Skyscraper”
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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Lennie Gwyther Made A 600 Mile Solo Trip On Horseback At Age Nine
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Feb 03, 2025 |
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Let’s Jump Into The History Of Parachutes
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Jan 31, 2025 |
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A Guy Used A Loophole In International Law To Put Himself “In Charge” Of Western Antarctica
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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The World Of Fighting Fires Is Getting More Robotic
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Jan 29, 2025 |
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Researchers Added QR Codes To Bees To Figure Out What They Did All Day
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Jan 28, 2025 |
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You Can Only Drive To Michigan’s “Lost Peninsula” Through Ohio
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Jan 27, 2025 |
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Tiger Woods Once Hit A Golf Ball Behind A Boulder, Then He Got People To Move The Boulder
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Jan 24, 2025 |
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Never Forget That There Are People With Nearly Perfect Memories
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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The Dogs That Made The Serum Run To Nome, Alaska Were Very, Very Good Dogs
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Jan 22, 2025 |
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Marysville, Kansas, The Town Where Black Squirrels Are Number One
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Jan 21, 2025 |
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Not All Of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Biggest Fans Are Fans Of The Biggest MLK Monuments
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Jan 20, 2025 |
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For Crops In The Desert, Try These Inflatable Container Farms
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Jan 17, 2025 |
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The Plan To Build A New US Highway With Nuclear Bombs
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Jan 16, 2025 |
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A Jury In An Illegal Liquor Case Deliberated By “Testing” The Evidence
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Jan 15, 2025 |
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Wausau, Wisconsin (Kind Of) Banned Snowball Fights For Over A Century
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Jan 14, 2025 |
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A County In Texas Officially Greeted People With “Heaven-o” Instead Of “Hello”
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Jan 13, 2025 |
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Mountain Week: The Race Up The World’s Longest Staircase
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Jan 10, 2025 |
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Mountain Week: The Dog That Climbed All Of New Hampshire’s 4,000 Foot Mountains
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Jan 09, 2025 |
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Mountain Week: The Guy Who Climbed Mount Hood To Drop Off A Morning Paper For His Friends
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Jan 08, 2025 |
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Mountain Week: The Mountain That’s Higher Than The Highest Mountain
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Jan 07, 2025 |
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Mountain Week: A 10 Month Old Kitten Once Climbed The Matterhorn… Somehow
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Jan 06, 2025 |
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Greenland Starts The New Year With Visits From Silent Masked Visitors
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Jan 03, 2025 |
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A Lawmaker Tried To Get Americans To Eat Hippo Meat, AKA “Lake Bacon”
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Jan 02, 2025 |
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The Oxford Electric Bell Has Been Ringing For Over 175 Years
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Jan 01, 2025 |
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The British Comedy Sketch That’s A New Year’s Eve Tradition In Germany
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Dec 31, 2024 |
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Albert Gunter Had To Jump London’s Tower Bridge While Driving A Double Decker Bus
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Dec 30, 2024 |
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In Wales, Mari Lwyd Brings A Costumed Horse Skull To Your Door For Some Winter Fun
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Dec 27, 2024 |
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Hanukkah Will Skip The Year 3031 And Go Straight To 3032
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Dec 26, 2024 |
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Black Cake Makes Christmas In The Caribbean Sweet And Delicious
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Dec 25, 2024 |
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At Christmas In Iceland, It’s All About The Books
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Dec 24, 2024 |
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There’s A Rooftop Sign That Reads “Welcome To Cleveland” But It’s Not In Cleveland
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Dec 23, 2024 |
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A 24/7 Diner Chain Gave Its Workers Christmas Day Off, Then It Had To Figure Out How To Close
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Dec 20, 2024 |
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Poinsettias Have Gone By A Whole Lot Of Names Over Time
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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Animation Legend Chuck Jones Made Dr. Seuss’s Grinch A Part Of TV History
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Dec 18, 2024 |
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Chas Newby, Beatle Bassist For Two Weeks
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Dec 17, 2024 |
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May Kaarlus Was A Trick Shot Billiard Prodigy Who Walked Away From It All
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Dec 16, 2024 |
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The Advent Calendar Turns The Month Of December Into A Christmas Countdown
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Dec 13, 2024 |
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Movie Critic Gene Siskel Helped Make A Popcorn Company A Chicago Icon
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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Apollo 17 Proved People Can Be Allergic To Moon Dust
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Dec 11, 2024 |
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For Over A Century, Kids Have Been Writing Amazing And Sometimes Bewildering Letters To Santa
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Dec 10, 2024 |
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Charlie Brown Is A Blockhead, But He Did Star In A Great Christmas Special
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Dec 09, 2024 |
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Troublemakers Beware, It’s Time For Austria’s Krampus Parades
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Dec 06, 2024 |
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Ernest Bazin Invented A Ship With Rolling "Wheels" And Named It After Himself
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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Joe Hickel Made Massive Gingerbread Villages At An Alaska Hotel For Decades
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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Pink Floyd’s Inflatable Pig Once Got Loose Over London
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Dec 03, 2024 |
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When Gas Was In Short Supply, Some Europeans Drove Firewood-Powered Cars
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Dec 02, 2024 |
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Thanksgiving Week: When “WKRP” Thought Turkeys Could Fly For Thanksgiving
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Nov 29, 2024 |
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Thanksgiving Week: Wanda And Jamal, The Best Accidental Thanksgiving Friends Ever
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Nov 28, 2024 |
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Thanksgiving Week: How Thanksgiving Leftovers Led To TV Dinners
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Nov 27, 2024 |
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Thanksgiving Week: We’re Grateful For Off The Wall Thanksgiving Sides
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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Thanksgiving Week: When The Macy’s Parade Rickrolled Thanksgiving
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Nov 25, 2024 |
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The “Butt Fumble” Made The New York Jets The Butt Of Endless Football Jokes
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Nov 22, 2024 |
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People Named A North Carolina Town ‘Whynot’ Because Why Not
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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Clyde Stubblefield, Music’s Original Funky Drummer
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Nov 20, 2024 |
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What Is The Deal With This Bathroom On The Cal Poly Campus
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Nov 19, 2024 |
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Touch Tone Phones Freed Callers From All That Rotary Dialing
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Nov 18, 2024 |
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Australia’s Navy Helped Save A Six Year Old’s Life By Enlisting Her
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Nov 15, 2024 |
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Movie Star Veronica Lake Gave Up Her Trademark Hairstyle For The War Effort
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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The Really (Expletive) Complicated History Of Swearing On TV
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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The Leonid Meteor Storm Of 1833 Was “The Night The Stars Fell”
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Nov 12, 2024 |
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Doug Hegdahl’s Razor-Sharp Memory Helped Hundreds Of American POWs In Vietnam
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Nov 11, 2024 |
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The Black Dog That Helped Inspire Led Zeppelin’s “Black Dog”
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Nov 08, 2024 |
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When Theodore Roosevelt Got A Full Term As President, He Also Got Two Ostriches
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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New York City Cabs Used To Have Celebrities Remind Passengers To Buckle Up
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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Hartford Election Cake Is An Old-School Way To Eat Your Way Through A Campaign
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Nov 05, 2024 |
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The Easy-Bake Oven Has Put Kids At The Forefront Of Lightbulb-Based Cooking For Decades
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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Pan de Muerto Is The Day of the Dead’s Signature Bread
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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Charlie Brown’s TV Neighbors Gave Him Rocks For Halloween, But Real People Sent Him Candy
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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John Adams And Ben Franklin Shared A Room Once And Spent The Night Arguing About The Window
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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Karolina Olsson, “The Sleeper of Oknö,” Woke Up After 32 Years In Bed
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Oct 29, 2024 |
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The “Logan Bar” Was Not-So-Sweet Chocolate And That’s Just How The US Military Wanted It
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Oct 28, 2024 |
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A Town In Colorado Holds Coffin Races
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Oct 25, 2024 |
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Norwood, Ontario Had A Water Tower That Looked Like A Crushed Can
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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William Lyttle, The “Mole Man” Who Dug Tunnels Around His London Home
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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Scientists Once Trained Rats To Drive Little Cars
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Oct 22, 2024 |
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William A. Mitchell, The King Of Space Age Snacks
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Oct 21, 2024 |
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Flag Week: It’s Not Just A Giant American Flag, It’s Superflag
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Oct 18, 2024 |
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Flag Week: Benny Benson, The 13 Year Old Who Designed Alaska’s Flag
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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Flag Week: Bob Heft Designed The 50-Star U.S. Flag In High School
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Oct 16, 2024 |
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Flag Week: The Star-Spangled Banner That Inspired “The Star-Spangled Banner”
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Oct 15, 2024 |
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Flag Week: Betsy Ross May Not Have Made The First Flag, But She Really Did Make Flags
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Oct 14, 2024 |
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Could Smart Tech And Music Playlists Help People Stay Sober?
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Oct 11, 2024 |
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Ed Wood, The Filmmaker Who Made The Best Worst Movies Ever
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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The Great Naha Tug of War Gets Thousands Of People Pulling And Partying
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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Somebody Put A Big Pumpkin Way Up On Top Of A Cornell University Tower
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Oct 08, 2024 |
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The New York Times Used To Have A Period In Its Logo
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Oct 07, 2024 |
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Sputnik Kicked Off The Space Age, And Also Gave Us The Word “Beatnik”
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Oct 04, 2024 |
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Even The Inventor Of Inline Skates Crashed Once In A While
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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The History Of Margarine Hasn’t Always Been Smooth
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Oct 02, 2024 |
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The New York Earth Room Is An Apartment Filled With Dirt, For Art’s Sake
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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Barry Marshall Pinpointed The Cause Of Most Ulcers By Giving Himself One
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Sep 30, 2024 |
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Rabbit Show Jumping Might Be The Most Adorable Sport
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Sep 27, 2024 |
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In Iceland, People Help Baby Puffins By Throwing Them Off Cliffs
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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Keeping Mold From Growing On Space Stations Takes Extra Effort, But It’s Worth It
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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Jimmy Doolittle Proved Pilots Can Fly Completely By Instruments
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Sep 24, 2024 |
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The “Space Capsule” On The Roadside Near Winganon, Oklahoma
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Sep 23, 2024 |
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Why Did The Fonz Jump The Shark In The First Place?
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Sep 20, 2024 |
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Dean Jones Put On A Cricket Clinic While He Was Sick And Extremely Dehydrated
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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Jim Delligatti, The Father Of The Big Mac
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Sep 18, 2024 |
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Sometimes Just A Five Second Break Is All It Takes To Get Along Better With A Spouse
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Sep 17, 2024 |
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In Post-War Yugoslavia, Mariachi Music Was A Huge Hit
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Sep 16, 2024 |
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Mister Rogers Made Friday The 13th A Fun Day In The Neighborhood Of Make-Believe
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Sep 13, 2024 |
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Even The Harlem Globetrotters Haven’t Won Every Game They’ve Played
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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When Planes Were Grounded On 9-11, People Came Together To Get A Donor Liver To A Baby For A Life-Saving Transplant
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Sep 11, 2024 |
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An NFL Team Drafted Norm Michael In College, But He Didn’t Find Out Until 55 Years Later
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Sep 10, 2024 |
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Colonel Sanders Was The Face Of KFC, And Occasionally Its Vocal Critic
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Sep 09, 2024 |
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Pacemaker Pioneer Wilson Greatbatch Helped Millions Of Hearts
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Sep 06, 2024 |
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A Group Of Teens Got Stranded On A Pacific Island For 15 Months, And Never Went All “Lord Of The Flies” On Each Other
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Sep 05, 2024 |
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Baby Food Giant Gerber Once Sold Jars Of Mushed Up Food For Adults
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Sep 04, 2024 |
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Charles Downing Lay, America’s Olympic Medalist In Town Planning
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Sep 03, 2024 |
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Did A Department Store Really Keep A Guy On Staff To Be “Fired” In Front Of Angry Customers?
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Sep 02, 2024 |
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Astronomy Week: The Hubble Telescope’s First Space Photo Was Kind Of Blurry
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Aug 30, 2024 |
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Astronomy Week: What Was July 4th Like Before The Fourth Of July?
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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Astronomy Week: Cincinnati Built An Observatory Any Stargazer Could Use
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Aug 28, 2024 |
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Astronomy Week: Caroline Herschel Discovered Comets And Became A Star
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Aug 27, 2024 |
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Astronomy Week: Guillaume Le Gentil, The 18th Century Astronomer With the Worst Luck
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Aug 26, 2024 |
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A Churchgoer In Spain Did “The Worst Art Restoration Project Of All Time”
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Aug 23, 2024 |
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The Sun Would Be Very Loud If You Could Hear In Space
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Aug 22, 2024 |
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After His Legendary Basketball Career, Wilt Chamberlain Became A Pro Volleyball Player
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Aug 21, 2024 |
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In Delaware, Drivers Can Auction Off Their License Plates For Big Bucks
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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Long Before Photoshop, Photographers Knew How To “Photoshop” Photos
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Aug 19, 2024 |
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The Iowa State Fair Has A Husband Calling Contest
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Aug 16, 2024 |
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Ignacio Anaya García, The Inventor Of Nachos
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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In The Early 20th Century, Some Americans Thought Tipping Was Horrible
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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The Grateful Dead Once Jammed With Live Crickets
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Aug 13, 2024 |
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Scientists Are Teaching Batteries To Put Themselves Out If They Catch On Fire
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Aug 12, 2024 |
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George Sutton Made His Name Playing Billiards After Losing His Hands
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Aug 09, 2024 |
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Two Countries Showed Up At The 1936 Olympics Flying Identical Flags
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Aug 08, 2024 |
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Lynne Cox Made A Cold Swim From The US To The USSR During The Cold War
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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Gertrude Ederle Set A Record For Swimming The English Channel, And She Did It In A Thunderstorm
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Aug 06, 2024 |
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There’s A Far-Off Planet Sometimes Called Earth’s Evil Twin
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Aug 05, 2024 |
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Olympians Week: The Original Olympic Flag Went Missing For Over 70 Years
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Aug 02, 2024 |
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Olympians Week: Two Olympians Turned A Silver And A Bronze Into “Medals Of Friendship”
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Aug 01, 2024 |
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Olympians Week: Margaret Abbott Won Olympic Gold Even Though She Didn’t Know She Was In The Olympics
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Jul 31, 2024 |
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Olympians Week: “Eric The Eel” Won An Olympic Heat With The Slowest Time In The Field
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Jul 30, 2024 |
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Olympians Week: The 1904 Men’s Marathon Was The Weirdest Olympic Race Ever
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Jul 29, 2024 |
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William Rankin Fell Through A Thundercloud And Lived
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Jul 26, 2024 |
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Tom Stuker Used His Lifetime Airline Ticket To Travel More Than 24 Million Miles
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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The Bee Gees And Peter Frampton Starred In A Sgt. Pepper Movie That Was A Glorious 70s Trainwreck
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Jul 24, 2024 |
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The Ice Cream Cone Got The Spotlight At The 1904 World’s Fair, But That Isn’t When It Was Invented
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Jul 23, 2024 |
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Michigan’s Official State Vehicle Fleet Includes A Vintage Model T
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Jul 22, 2024 |
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It Took Researchers Twenty Years To Figure Out The Rosetta Stone
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Jul 19, 2024 |
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New York Once Built Artificial Reefs Out Of Old Ice Cream Trucks
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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There Was Almost A Scary Sequel To “E.T.”
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Jul 17, 2024 |
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Embo, Scotland, Declared Itself Independent For A Day
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Jul 16, 2024 |
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William Walker, The Diver Who Saved Winchester Cathedral
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Jul 15, 2024 |
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Buckminster Fuller Proposed Putting A Big Dome Over Manhattan
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Jul 12, 2024 |
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Ina Koenig Saved A Kid Who Fell Into A Mine Shaft By Keeping His Head Above Water
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Jul 11, 2024 |
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Bir Tawil Is Land Between Egypt And Sudan That Neither Country Wants
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Jul 10, 2024 |
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In A Letter From Ancient Babylon, A Teenager Complains To His Mom About Clothes
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Jul 09, 2024 |
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Taco Bell Once Trolled America By Claiming It Had Bought The Liberty Bell
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Jul 08, 2024 |
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Alvin Straight Couldn’t Drive To See His Ailing Brother, So He Took A Road Trip On A Lawn Mower
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Jul 05, 2024 |
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The Washington Monument That Was Built Before The Washington Monument
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Jul 04, 2024 |
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Ford Once Tried To Turn A Station Wagon Into A “Pushbutton Camper”
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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Utah Restocks Its Remote Lakes By Dropping Fish Out Of Airplanes
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Jul 02, 2024 |
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Every July 1 Is A Million Dollar Day For Baseball’s Bobby Bonilla
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Jul 01, 2024 |
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The Treaty That Ended World War I Also Set The International Standard For Musical Pitch
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Jun 28, 2024 |
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A Town In Japan Built An Anne Of Green Gables-Themed Park
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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Medieval Europeans Really Could Have Banged Coconuts Together, Like In Monty Python
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Jun 26, 2024 |
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Sallie Gardner Was The Galloping Horse In The First Proto-Movie
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Jun 25, 2024 |
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Volcanic Ash Shut Down All Of British Airways Flight 009’s Engines - But It Still Landed Safely
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Jun 24, 2024 |
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Dessert Week: If You’re Making Cookies In Space, Be Patient
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Jun 21, 2024 |
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Dessert Week: The Great Banana Split Rivalry
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Jun 20, 2024 |
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Dessert Week: Even For Meringue This Meringue Is Light
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Jun 19, 2024 |
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Dessert Week: Queen Elizabeth I Had Her Guests Eat Gingerbread Men That Looked Like Themselves
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Jun 18, 2024 |
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Dessert Week: Agnes B. Marshall, The First “Queen” Of Ice Cream
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Jun 17, 2024 |
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Every Year Readlyn, Iowa Elects An Official Town Grump
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Jun 14, 2024 |
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Tying Cans To A Wedding Car Has Roots In Protesting A Marriage
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Jun 13, 2024 |
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The Baseball Game Lou Gehrig Played After He Stopped Playing Baseball
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Jun 12, 2024 |
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How Jophery Brown Became One Of Hollywood’s Most Iconic Stuntmen
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Jun 11, 2024 |
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Legend Says Instead of Fighting A War, Two Armies In Switzerland Sat Down For Some Soup
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Jun 10, 2024 |
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In 1520, Two Kings Spent Millions To Throw Themselves A Party For Over Two Weeks
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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A Teen Got To The “End” Of NES Tetris, And People Figured Out How To Hack The Software And Keep Playing
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Jun 06, 2024 |
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A Handful Of VIPs Can Travel To Other Countries Without Passports
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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American Cheese Got Its Start With A Guy From Canada
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Jun 04, 2024 |
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Alexander Graham Bell Invented A “Photophone” That Sent Sound On Beams Of Light
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Jun 03, 2024 |
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Some American Hockey Players Develop Canadian-Ish Accents
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May 31, 2024 |
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Dr. Kate Pelham Newcomb’s “Penny Parade” Helped Build A Northern Wisconsin Hospital
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May 30, 2024 |
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There Was More Than One “Real” Rosie the Riveter
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May 29, 2024 |
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The Cherry Sisters Baffled Vaudeville But Guaranteed Newspapers The Right To Criticize Bad Shows
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May 28, 2024 |
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Memorial Day Special: The Many One True Birthplaces Of Memorial Day
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May 27, 2024 |
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Planet Week: Uranus Was Originally Going To Be Named “George”
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May 24, 2024 |
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Planet Week: Venus: If You Lived Here, You’d Have Melted By Now
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May 23, 2024 |
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Planet Week: Selfies On Mars
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May 22, 2024 |
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Planet Week: At Age 11, Venetia Burney Named Pluto
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May 21, 2024 |
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Planet Week: Could Jokes About Uranus Prevent A Mission To Uranus?
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May 20, 2024 |
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The Pillsbury Doughboy Has A Name And A Family
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May 17, 2024 |
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Maria Beasley Invented A Life Raft And Lots Of Other Hugely Useful Things
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May 16, 2024 |
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When France And Spain Had A “War Of The Stop Signs”
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May 15, 2024 |
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Didier Delsalle Landed His Helicopter On Top Of Mount Everest
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May 14, 2024 |
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Baltimore’s Mr. Trash Wheel Cleans Up The Waterfront With Technology And Googly Eyes
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May 13, 2024 |
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Did A Finnish Skier Actually Spit Out His Dentures On His Way To A Gold Medal?
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May 10, 2024 |
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Some People Are Sweet On Kool-Aid Pickles, But Others Have Soured On The Idea
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May 09, 2024 |
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In The 90s, Coca Cola Wanted Us To Drink OK Soda
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May 08, 2024 |
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El Reno, Oklahoma Is The Home Of The Fried Onion Burger
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May 07, 2024 |
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The Outtakes From Orson Welles’ Wine Commercial Might Be His Most Legendary Work
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May 06, 2024 |
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Ancient Romans Once Threatened To Exile Anyone Wearing Pants
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May 03, 2024 |
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The Distress Call Mayday Doesn’t Have Anything To Do With May
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May 02, 2024 |
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Bonnie Richardson Won A State Track Team Championship By Herself - Twice
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May 01, 2024 |
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When News Companies Tried To Deliver Newspapers Through Radio Transmissions
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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Willie Nelson Once Recorded An Album To Pay Back Taxes To The IRS
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Apr 29, 2024 |
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A Single Tree In New York Grows 40 Different Fruits
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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Absorbing An Oil Spill With Cork And Lasers
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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The “Electronic Tongue” That Can Tell When Wine Starts To Spoil
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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"English As She Is Spoke," A Guide To English Written By A Guy Who Didn't Really Speak English
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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This Smart Glove Could Help Divers Warn Each Other When There’s Danger Nearby
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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Two US Cities Each Insist Their Cuban Sandwich Is The Authentic One
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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The Minor League Baseball Game That Took Three Days To Play
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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Kansas City’s Subtropolis Is A Huge Business Complex That’s 100 Feet Underground
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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A “Lunar Olympics” Almost Ended In Disaster For The Apollo 16 Astronauts
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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Leonardo da Vinci, Inventor of the Resume
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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Murphy, The Eagle Who Became Dad To A Rock
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Apr 12, 2024 |
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Glowing Orbs In The Netherlands Could Light The Way Toward Clean Water
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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The Tempest Prognosticator Used Leeches To Predict Stormy Weather
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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Florence Price Finally Takes Her Place On The List Of Great Composers
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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A Study Says Everyone In Japan Could Have The Same Last Name Five Centuries From Now
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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A Dog In The UK Saved Lives During The Blitz, Thanks To A Full Bladder
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Apr 05, 2024 |
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A Guy In Melbourne Walks Around With A Giant Carrot Just For Fun
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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Baseball Player Ping Bodie Once Won An Eating Contest Against An Ostrich
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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Communist Countries Thought The TV Show “Dallas” Would Scare Citizens Away From Capitalism, But It Backfired
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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In 1906, Chicago’s Newspapers Told Everybody The City Was Being Attacked By Dinosaurs
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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Fine Art Week: Some Art Looks Great Even When Accidentally Hung Upside Down
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Mar 29, 2024 |
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Fine Art Week: Edmonia Lewis, A Sculptor Who Brought Her Subjects To Life
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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Fine Art Week: Why Is It So Hard To Tell A Real Rembrandt Painting From A Copy?
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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Fine Art Week: Sarah Biffin, A 19th Century Painter “Without Hands” Who’s Getting 21st Century Recognition
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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Fine Art Week: Pigeons Would Make Pretty Good Art Critics
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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If This TV Show Hadn’t Been Canceled, We Might Not Have Had The Original Versions of “Star Trek” and TV’s “Batman”
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Mar 22, 2024 |
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For Our Fifth Birthday, The Story Of The Song “Happy Birthday To You”
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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Taco Bell Once Sold A Burger Called The “Bell Beefer”
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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Shizo Kanakuri Finished A Marathon He’d Started 54 Years Earlier
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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The Nutty Narrows Bridge Was Built For Squirrels In Washington State
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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Wilson Pickett’s “Mustang Sally” Became A Hit, After A Tape Machine Cut It To Pieces
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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Before Alarm Clocks, Some People Awoke With Help From A “Knocker-Up”
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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Legendary Physicists Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard Once Teamed Up To Design A Refrigerator
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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Here’s A Tiny Fish That Can Make Sounds As Loud As A Jet Engine
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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A Boycott Against Charles Boycott Gave Us The Word “Boycott”
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Mar 12, 2024 |
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New York City’s 311 System Has Gotten Some Wild Calls Over The Years
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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Musical Alarms Could Help Save Lives In Hospitals
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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Cap’n Crunch Once Got Sued Because There Weren’t Actual Berries In Crunch Berries Cereal
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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Whey Protein Could Help Stop E-Waste
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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Ruth Belville, The Last “Time Carrier” In London
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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Police Squad, The TV Comedy That Got Canceled For Being Too Funny
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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When Danish Farmers Started Breeding “Protest Pigs”
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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La Bougie du sapeur, The Newspaper That Only Comes Out On February 29
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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If Humans Start Living On Other Worlds, They Might End Up Creating New Accents
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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Charles Strite, The Inventor Who Made Toasters Pop
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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Whitney Smith Flew The Flag For Studying Flags
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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Mail Week: How Ethel Merman Helped Get America To Use ZIP Codes
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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Mail Week: Henry Brown Escaped From Slavery By Mailing Himself To Philadelphia
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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Mail Week: Meet Owney, The Legendary Postal Dog
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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Mail Week: “Stagecoach” Mary Fields, Montana’s One-Of-A-Kind Mail Carrier
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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Mail Week: When Americans Could Mail Their Children From Place To Place
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Feb 19, 2024 |
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When Missouri Banned Schools For Black Students, John Berry Meachum Started A School On A Riverboat
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Feb 16, 2024 |
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The Blackwell Family Tree Traces Black History Through Centuries
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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Haters Used To Give Out “Vinegar Valentines” To Push People’s Button
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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How Ski Ballet Ended Up At The Olympics In The 80s And 90s
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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The “Hairy Eagle” Is A Decoration Made Partly With Abraham Lincoln’s Hair
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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Snowflake Bentley Showed The World Just How Amazing Snow Can Be
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Feb 09, 2024 |
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ELIZA Was An AI Chatbot Decades Before ChatGPT
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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The US Rationed Shoes During World War II, So People Made Footwear Out Of Old Firehoses
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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February Is The Shortest Month For Literally Odd Reasons
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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Indiana Almost Set The Value Of Pi At 3.2, Even Though That Isn’t Pi’s Value
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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When Indiana Tried To Get “Louie, Louie” Off The Radio
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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This Smart Glove Can Help People Recover From A Stroke
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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Jean Carroll, TV's First Female Standup Comedy Star
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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Holland, Michigan Has A Snow Melting System Built Into Its Downtown
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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Cat Week: A 10 Month Old Kitten Once Climbed The Matterhorn… Somehow
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Jan 26, 2024 |
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Cat Week: Room 8, The Cat Named For A Classroom In L.A.
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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Cat Week: A Bike Trip Around The World With A Cat
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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Cat Week: There’s Music For Cats And It’s Apparently Very Good For Them
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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Cat Week: Félicette, The First Cat In Space
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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To Win A Dance Marathon, Couples Might Have To Keep Going For Five Months
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Jan 19, 2024 |
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Auto Companies Hire People To Make Sure The New Car Smell Is Just Right
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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During Prohibition, Grape Growers Sold “Wine Bricks” To Thirsty Customers
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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Designers Put Airbags In Clothes To Protect People From Falls
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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When Martin Luther King Jr. Won The Nobel Peace Prize, Atlanta Held A Historic Dinner In His Honor
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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How Mr. Clean Became The World’s Top Bald Sailor Genie Cleaning Icon
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Jan 12, 2024 |
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John Thompson Lost His Arms In A Farm Accident, Got Himself Help And Got The Arms Back
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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Berlin’s Jazz Age Nightclubs Let People Message Each Other Through Pneumatic Tubes
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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Richard Nixon Once Wished He’d Been A Rapper
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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Newspaper Reporters Once Bought A Chicago Dive Bar To Catch Corrupt Officials
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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Schoolhouse Rock Taught Generations About Bills, Adverbs And Magic Numbers
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Jan 05, 2024 |
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The UK Reality Show “Shattered” Was Essentially A Sleep Deprivation Contest On TV
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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In Whittier, Alaska, A Lot Of Residents All Live In One Building
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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A City In Ecuador Starts The Year With A Festival Of Dancing Devils
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Jan 02, 2024 |
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Garisenda Tower Is Italy’s Other Leaning Tower
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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When The New Year’s Ball Drop Is Over, New York City Gets Busy Cleaning Up Times Square
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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The Letter Z Once Looked Like A Fancy Capital I
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Dec 29, 2023 |
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Puerto Rico’s Festival de las Máscaras Gets Colorful And Loud
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Dec 28, 2023 |
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When George S. Patton Bombed A Volcano
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Dec 27, 2023 |
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Tilly Smith Saved 100 People From A Tsunami Because She'd Listened In Class
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Dec 26, 2023 |
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Babbo Natale, The Yule Goat and The World’s Many Christmas Gift Givers
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Dec 25, 2023 |
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How The Snow Globe Started Shaking Up Winter
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Dec 22, 2023 |
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Nixon And Elvis, The Most Iconic Meeting In 70s History
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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How A Christmas Card Gave Us “It’s A Wonderful Life”
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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Where Did We Put All The Goodwill Moon Rocks From Apollo 17?
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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Joseph Grimaldi, London’s “King Of Clowns”
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Dec 18, 2023 |
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High Tech Snow Chains Could Pop Out When Your Car Needs Them And Retract When It Doesn’t
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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A Baboon Named Jack Once Worked For A Railroad, And He Was Good At His Job
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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How Google Street View Could Help Stop Invasive Weeds
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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Teddy Roosevelt Tried To Change How We Spell Words
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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The Delicious History Of Hanukkah Latkes
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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Do Stoplights Need A Fourth Color?
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Dec 08, 2023 |
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Tom Waits Went To Court Over An Ad For Doritos
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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Black Firefighters In Chicago Helped Give The World The Fire Pole
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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People In The “Dirty” Middle Ages Actually Liked To Get Clean
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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How A Guy In 1974 Used A Computer To Order Pizza
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Dec 04, 2023 |
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A Statue Of Liberty Stamp That Didn’t Actually Feature The Statue Of Liberty
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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Let’s Meet The Guy Named Mason Who Patented The Mason Jar
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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There’s A Secret Military Airline Known As “Janet”
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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Can We Patch Back Injuries The Way We Patch Holes In Car Tires?
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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Bruce Lee Was A Legendary Martial Artist And A Terrific Dancer
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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When Domino’s Tried To Have Reindeer Deliver Pizza
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Nov 24, 2023 |
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Before There Was Halloween Trick-Or-Treating, There Was The Thanksgiving Ragamuffin Parade
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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Groups Of Chimpanzees Spy On Each Other
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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How “Hello” Became The English Language’s Way Of Saying Hello
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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Before The Internet Was All About Dumpster Fires, There Was The Creation Of The Dumpster
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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The Key To Next-Generation Batteries Might Be In Crab Shells
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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Oklahoma’s Panhandle Was Once Known As “No Man’s Land”
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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A Whole City Came Together To Give “BatKid” One Super Day
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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Movie Fans In Texas Enjoy Pickles When They Go To The Theater
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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A Turkey Once Interrupted A Green Bay Packers Game
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Nov 13, 2023 |
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Moon Week: That Time Pink Floyd Jammed Out During The Moon Landing
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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Moon Week: Why Did The Moon Disappear 900 Years Ago?
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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Moon Week: Our Long History Of Crashing Stuff Into The Moon
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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Moon Week: The Earth’s Rotation Is Slowing, Thanks To The Moon
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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Moon Week: Apollo 12 Crashed Its Lunar Module On Purpose
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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Alberto Manzi Convinced Italians That “It’s Never Too Late” To Learn
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Nov 03, 2023 |
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Warren Harding’s Human Friends Hurt His Presidency, But His Dog Friends Were Great
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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Toronto’s “Stork Derby” Happened Because Of A Very Wealthy Lawyer’s Very Strange Will
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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If You Want To Go Old School For Halloween, Try Carving Some Turnips
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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Creeped Out By Clowns? Here’s The Science That Explains Why
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Oct 30, 2023 |
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Isaac Singer Invented The Modern Sewing Machine, But What He Really Wanted To Do Was Act
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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Listening To A Symphony Can Actually Sync Up The Audience’s Heart Rates
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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Here’s A Robot That Can Roll Up And Down Stairs
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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An Excited James Brown Fan Almost Swore Through The Recording Of “Live At The Apollo”
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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“Mr. Tornado” Ted Fujita Was The Original Severe Weather Detective
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Oct 23, 2023 |
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Dogpiles Are How Baseball Teams Celebrate Big Wins And Sometimes Hurt Themselves
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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A Medical Robot Can Help Steer A Needle Through Living Tissue
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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In 1867 Alaska, It Was Friday, And Another Friday Came Afterward
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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Neil Diamond And Barbra Streisand Had A Hit Duet Almost By Accident
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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The Cardiff Giant Was A Fake Giant That Caused A Real Uproar
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Oct 16, 2023 |
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The Thirteen Club Put Thirteen Guests Together For A Thirteen Course Meal On Friday The 13th
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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Winning The Nobel Prize Is Hard, Calling Someone To Tell Them They Won The Nobel Prize Can Also Be Hard
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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Scientists Flipped Coins 350,757 Times To See If The Results Were 50/50
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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A Writer In 1870 Couldn’t Figure Out What All The Fuss Over Yosemite Was About
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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Jellyfish Just Proved You Don’t Need A Brain To Learn From Experience
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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The Zeitpyramide Is An Art Project That Will Take 1,200 Years To Build
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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The Pitch Drop Experiment Is A Single Research Project That’s Been Running Since The 1930s
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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Antonín Dvořák’s First Symphony Went Missing For Six Decades
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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Patrick Combs Cashed A $95,000 Promotional "Check" And Actually Got The Money
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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The Marx Brothers Became Comedians Thanks To An Escaped Mule In Texas
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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Sometimes Coffee Isn’t A Beverage, It’s Coffee Jelly
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Sep 29, 2023 |
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Two Australians Once Had A Staring Contest For Over 40 Minutes
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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Hector, The Thunderstorm That Arrives Like Clockwork Over Australia’s Tiwi Islands
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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Johnny Appleseed’s Trees Gave Homesteaders A Way To Make Adult Beverages
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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William Faulkner Was An Iconic Author And A Mediocre Mailman
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Sep 25, 2023 |
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Robert Shields Kept A Decades-Long Diary Of Pretty Much Everything He Ever Did
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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Sam Brinkley, The “Longest Bearded Man In The World”
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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Why The USSR Once Thought A Hot Dog Stand Was A Top US Military Installation
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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A Soviet Cosmonaut Once Pretended To Land On The Moon To Troll NASA
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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What Ants Can Teach Us About Mass Transportation
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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Cecil Chubb, The Guy Who Bought Stonehenge At An Auction
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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How Joyce Chen Helped The US Fall In Love With Chinese Food
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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When Phineas Gage’s Skull Met An Iron Bar, Things Got Weird
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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The Flatwoods Monster Put A West Virginia Town On The Map, After Scaring Local Kids
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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Monster Trucks Started When A Guy Put Giant Tires On His Own Ride
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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The Egg Cream Is A Refreshing New York City Classic
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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Old Coffee Grounds Could Make Concrete Stronger, Greener, More Jittery
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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Cry A Little And You’ll Power The Smart Contact Lenses Of The Future
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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How High-Tech Garbage Trucks Can Help Maintain A City
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Sep 05, 2023 |
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Lewis Howard Latimer, The Black Inventor Who Helped Make The Modern World Modern
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Sep 04, 2023 |
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Italy’s “Festival of the Ugly” Reminds Everybody That Looks Aren’t Everything
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Sep 01, 2023 |
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To Get Out Of A Record Contract, Van Morrison Made A Malicious Compliance Album
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Aug 31, 2023 |
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People In Ancient China Built Ceramic Water Pipes Thousands Of Years Ago
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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An Urban Legend Says The Devil Took Over Everybody’s TV Screens In 1968
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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Leon Theremin’s Musical Instrument Can Be Played Without Being Touched
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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Momofuku Ando, The Guy Who Invented Instant Ramen
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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These Smart Glasses Can Generate Real-Time Speech Captions For Deaf People
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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John Lennon and The Many Other Pop Stars Who Say They Saw UFOs
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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A California Artist Once Helped Drivers By Adding His Own Road Sign To The Highway
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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How Font Sizes On Menus Could Help People Eat Healthier
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Aug 21, 2023 |
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Snack Week: Quit Hating On Candy Corn, At Least Until You Hear Its Story
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Aug 18, 2023 |
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Snack Week: In Belgium, Eating Fries Is Patriotic
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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Snack Week: Queen Elizabeth I Had Her Guests Eat Gingerbread Men That Looked Like Themselves
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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Snack Week: How The Cheese Curl Was Invented (Partly By Accident)
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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Snack Week: Pretzels Have Been Twisting Their Way Into Our Hearts For Over A Millennium
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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During The Burryman’s Parade, A Scottish Dude In A Suit Made Of Burrs Walks Around Drinking Whiskey
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Aug 11, 2023 |
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A Shower Of Souvenir Baseballs Led To A Major League Forfeit
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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The Fly-Swatting Champion Of Bisbee, Arizona
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Aug 09, 2023 |
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A US Treasury Official Decided To Feature Himself On Currency
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Aug 08, 2023 |
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Turkmenistan’s Leader Once Drove Doughnuts Around A Flaming Crater Known As The “Gates Of Hell”
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Aug 07, 2023 |
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Moss And Tracy Hills, The Cruise Ship Musicians Who Saved Hundreds From A Sinking Ship
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Aug 04, 2023 |
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If You’re Trying To Visit All 50 States, North Dakota Wants You To Save The “Best For Last”
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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The US Almost Had Coins Worth A Tenth Of A Cent
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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Jackie Ormes Brought Black Characters To The Comics Page
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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Kitty Burke Once Batted In A Major League Game
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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When People From Towns Named Dull, Boring And Bland Get Together, You Know It’ll Get Lit
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Jul 28, 2023 |
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In The 19th Century, Steamboat Racing Was An Extreme Sport
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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The First Road Trip Across The Continental US Won A Guy Fifty Bucks
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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How Colorado Got The Colorado River To Run Through Colorado
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Jul 25, 2023 |
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Before Detroit Was The Motor City, It Was Known For Its Stoves
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Jul 24, 2023 |
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Winneconne, Wisconsin Once Seceded From The State Over A Highway Map
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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Want To Burn Lots Of Calories? Try High-Level Chess
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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AI Phone Bots Foil Scammers By Wasting Their Time
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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Douglas “Wrong Way” Corrigan Flew To Ireland When He Was Supposed To Fly To California
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Jul 18, 2023 |
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Gail Halvorsen, The “Candy Bomber” Of The Berlin Airlift
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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In India, Telegrams Were Still Around Until 2013
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Jul 14, 2023 |
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The Hollywood Sign Was A Big Ad That Turned Into a Landmark
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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The 1924 Olympic Men’s Cross Country Race Was Literally A Hot Mess
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Jul 12, 2023 |
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Dick Roth Won Olympic Gold While He Had Appendicitis
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Jul 11, 2023 |
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Two Young Brothers Rode Across The Country On Horseback To Hang Out With Teddy Roosevelt
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Jul 10, 2023 |
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Samantha Smith, A Kid From Maine Who Tried To Make The Cold War A Little More Peaceful
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Jul 07, 2023 |
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In Soviet Russia, Vacation Took You
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Jul 06, 2023 |
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The Secret Service Has An Ink Library To Foil Crimes
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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Not Even An Alien Attack Or Zombie Apocalypse Could Keep The US From Protecting Its Founding Documents
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Jul 04, 2023 |
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A Newspaper Called The Recycler Helped Bring Together Some Of The Biggest Rock Bands Of All Time
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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Irna Phillips Brought The World Of Soap Operas To Life
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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Marie C. Bolden, A Black Teen In Cleveland, Helped Win A National Spelling Title In 1908
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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The Wild History Of The White House Telephone
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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Before There Were Chicken McNuggets, McDonald’s Tried Selling Onion Nuggets
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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A Teenager In Michigan Once Started Building A Nuclear Reactor In The Shed
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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Babe Ruth Once Pitched A Combined No-Hitter, At Least Technically
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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Some People Didn’t Think The Earliest Air Conditioners Were Very Cool
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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The Dog That Climbed All Of New Hampshire’s 4,000 Foot Mountains
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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West Virginia Is Landlocked, But It Has A Lighthouse Anyway
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Jun 20, 2023 |
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Raise A Glass Of Red Drink On Juneteenth
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Jun 19, 2023 |
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Lifting Something Heavy? Think Positive Thoughts, Or You Might Hurt Yourself
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Jun 16, 2023 |
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Why We Don’t Pronounce The Last S In Arkansas
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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The Star-Spangled Banner That Inspired “The Star-Spangled Banner”
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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Charles Osborne Had The Hiccups For 68 Years
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Jun 13, 2023 |
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In Wartime, Knitters Have Used Their Skills For Spying
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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This Doll From The 18th Century May Be One Of The First Computers
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Jun 09, 2023 |
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A Startup In Switzerland Is Putting Solar Panels In Between Railroad Tracks
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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Virginia Apgar's Score Has Helped Millions Of Babies Stay Healthy
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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Clarence Blethen, The Pitcher Who Got Bit By His Own False Teeth
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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The World Has Ankle Monitors Partly Because Of Spider-Man Comics
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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First Lady Mamie Eisenhower Had Her Own Shade Of Pink
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Jun 02, 2023 |
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Rockford, Illinois Is The Birthplace Of The Sock Monkey
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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The Michigan Tycoon Who Made His Descendants Wait 92 Years To Inherit His Fortune
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May 31, 2023 |
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How Suitcases With Wheels Helped Travelers Get On A Roll
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May 30, 2023 |
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The Arlington Ladies Remember Every Servicemember Buried At Arlington National Cemetery
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May 29, 2023 |
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If It Had Been Up To Billie Jean King, Astronaut Sally Ride Might Have Been A Pro Tennis Player
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May 26, 2023 |
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Hands Across America Brought Together Some Hands Across Some Of America
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May 25, 2023 |
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Novelty Maker S.S. Adams Put The Joy In Joy Buzzers
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May 24, 2023 |
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French President Paul Deschanel Once Fell Out Of A Moving Train
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May 23, 2023 |
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The Legend Of Blanche Heriot, Who Saved Her Love’s Life By Keeping A Bell From Ringing
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May 22, 2023 |
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Rock On Week: One Of Aerosmith’s Biggest Hits Happened Partly Because Of A Mel Brooks Movie
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May 19, 2023 |
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Rock On Week: When Pat Boone Made A Heavy Metal Record
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May 18, 2023 |
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Rock On Week: When A 19 Year Old Drummer Got Onstage With The Who
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May 17, 2023 |
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Rock On Week: The Best Defense Against Cougars Is Metallica
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May 16, 2023 |
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Rock On Week: Why Van Halen Said No To Brown M&Ms
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May 15, 2023 |
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Parrots Like To Do Video Calls WIth Other Parrots
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May 12, 2023 |
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To Drive To Minnesota’s Northwest Angle, You Have To Go Through Canada
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May 11, 2023 |
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NASA Has Its Own Railroad
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May 10, 2023 |
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Meet ESTHER, A Robot That Plays Wheelchair Tennis
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May 09, 2023 |
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Guy Goma Became An Internet Expert By Accident On Live TV
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May 08, 2023 |
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There’s A Big Metal Ball Just Hanging Out In Earth Orbit, And It’s Super Useful
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May 05, 2023 |
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How A Farmer In Belgium Accidentally Changed The Country’s Borders
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May 04, 2023 |
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A Game Of Twister On “The Tonight Show” Helped Make The Game A Hit
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May 03, 2023 |
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Why People Push Peanuts Up Pikes Peak With Their Noses
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May 02, 2023 |
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Medieval Monks Were Volcano Trackers Without Even Knowing It
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May 01, 2023 |
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Today Is Ed Balls Day, To Which We Say “Ed Balls”
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Apr 28, 2023 |
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Cliff Young Won An Ultramarathon By Running Like An “Old Turtle”
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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There Were Storm Chasers Even In The 19th Century
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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Kids In Canada Went On Strike Over The Price Of Candy Bars
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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Libraries In Portugal Are Preserving Old Books With Help From Bats
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Apr 24, 2023 |
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When An Apollo Astronaut Had A Gas Problem On The Moon
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Apr 21, 2023 |
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The 300 Club Is The Hottest - And Coldest - Club In Antarctica
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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When World War II Meant No Bananas For The UK, People Made “Mock Bananas” Out Of Parsnips
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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Gregory Robertson Saved An Unconscious Skydiver After A High-Speed Dive
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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What Does It Take To Be Great At Underwater Hockey?
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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Did A Dolphin Known As Pelorus Jack Actually Guide Ships Through The Sea?
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Apr 14, 2023 |
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This Old City Bus Is Now A Traveling Sauna
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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Why Do Some People Love Licorice And Other People Loathe It?
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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Claire Weekes Came Up With Six Words To Help With Anxiety
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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The Wilhelm Scream Is The Classic Hollywood Sound Effect You Can’t Stop Hearing
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Apr 10, 2023 |
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California Miners Once Tried To Start “The Great Republic Of Rough And Ready”
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Apr 07, 2023 |
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The Twinkie Has Longevity In More Ways Than One
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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Carlester Smith Walked His Way Through Annapolis
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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The Volleyball Game Played Over A Border Fence
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Apr 04, 2023 |
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There’s A Lunchbox Museum In Columbus, Georgia
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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Baseball Week: Germany Schaefer, The Baseball Player Who Stole First Base
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Mar 31, 2023 |
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We Let AI Write This Show And Host Most Of It, Too
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Mar 31, 2023 |
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Baseball Week: Little Leaguer Katie Brownell Once Struck Out Every Batter In An Entire Game
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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Baseball Week: Satchel Paige Was So Good He Could Still Get Batters Out In His Late 50s
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Mar 29, 2023 |
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Baseball Week: Baseball's First, Fightingest Umpire
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Mar 28, 2023 |
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Baseball Week: Carlton Fisk’s Home Run Wave Changed TV Sports, But It Almost Didn’t Get Filmed At All
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Mar 27, 2023 |
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Dad Jokes Are Good For Kids, And Here’s The Science That Says So
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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Potatoes Could Help Astronauts Build “Cosmic Concrete” On Mars, Or Even Here On Earth
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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For Self-Help Robots, Looks Matter
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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The Air Force Once Bombed Montana
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Mar 21, 2023 |
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Ulysses, Kansas, The Town That Moved A Couple Miles Down The Road
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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How To Keep Flying Robots Flying Even When Their Wings Are Damaged
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Mar 17, 2023 |
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This Pen Can Help People With Parkinson’s Disease Keep Writing
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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A Company In Mexico Is Making 3D Printed Bricks Out Of Eggshells
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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The Prison-Only Potato Chips Known As “The Whole Shabang” Live Up To Their Name
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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Uranus Was Originally Going To Be Named “George”
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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How Insects, World War I, Golf Balls And Halloween Candy Helped Lead Us To Daylight Saving Time
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Mar 10, 2023 |
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When The Supreme Court Kind Of Ruled That An Airplane Wasn’t A Motor Vehicle
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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For Safer Motorcycling, How About Pants With Airbags?
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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Science Once Figured Out How To Give Rats Gambling Problems - And How To Take Them Away
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Mar 07, 2023 |
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For Michelangelo, Painting The Sistine Chapel Was Literally A Pain
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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Science Says Cats Can Perceive Time, Sort Of
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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Susanna Madora Salter Became The First American Woman Mayor Kind Of By Surprise
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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Pennies Were First Used Back When A Penny Was Worth Something, By Golly
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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Clippy, The AI Paper Clip Chatbot That Really Wanted To Help You Write Letters
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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This Device Could Tell You When Your Voice Is Getting Tired
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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Steve Jobs, The First Person To Order A Pizza Online
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Feb 24, 2023 |
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Ora Washington, The “Queen Of Two Courts,” Ruled Tennis And Basketball Alike
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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Robert Wadlow Was Known For His Heart As Well As His Height
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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Some Of The World’s Languages Are Whistled
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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Before There Were Big Car Sales On Presidents Day, There Were Big Bicycle Sales
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Feb 20, 2023 |
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Henry E. Baker Made Sure Black Inventors Got Recognized
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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How Choose Your Own Adventure Books Let Millions Of Young Readers Pick The Ending Of The Story
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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Gaming Prosthetics Are Making Minecraft More Inclusive
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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The Heart Shape Comes From Just About Everywhere Except Actual Hearts
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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The Time Millions Of Legos Fell Into The Ocean And Washed Up On Beaches
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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How Lusia Harris Became The “Queen Of Basketball”
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Feb 10, 2023 |
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Bill Veeck, The Wildest Owner Baseball Ever Saw
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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Why Did Actual People Start Building Snow People?
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Feb 08, 2023 |
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The First Time Astronauts Walked In Space Without A Tether
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Feb 07, 2023 |
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The Legend Of James Bartley, Who Was Supposedly Swallowed By A Whale
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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Clara MacBeth, The Queen Of Cruise Ships, Spent Decades At Sea
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Feb 03, 2023 |
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Sound Waves Could Help Keep High-Tech Batteries Going And Going And Going
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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There’s A Basketball Court In The US Supreme Court Building
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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The Moon Trees Came From Seeds That Went Into Lunar Orbit
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Jan 31, 2023 |
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President Franklin Roosevelt Once Dreamed Of Writing Movies
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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Electric Cutlery Can Make Food Taste Saltier Without Being Saltier
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Jan 27, 2023 |
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Before Play-Doh Became A Childhood Icon, It Was Known As Kutol Wallpaper Cleaner
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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This Solar Powered System Can Help Address Both Plastic Waste And Greenhouse Gases
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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The History Of The World, According To Peanut Butter
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Jan 24, 2023 |
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Hydrogel Sheets Could Clean Up Spills Quicker Than Ever Before
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Jan 23, 2023 |
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If Winter Is Your Thing, Try Staying At An Ice Hotel
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Jan 20, 2023 |
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The Mysterious “Poe Toaster” Raised A Glass To The Author Every Year On His Birthday
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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Banning Sliced Bread Was Not The Best Thing Since Sliced Bread
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Jan 18, 2023 |
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When Al Capone Gave Two Cherry Trees To A Baltimore Hospital
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Jan 17, 2023 |
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Ben’s Chili Bowl Was One Of Martin Luther King’s Regular Stops In DC
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Jan 16, 2023 |
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Sign Spinning Isn’t Just A Job, It’s A Sport
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Jan 13, 2023 |
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Eclipse, The Dog Who Rode The Bus
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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A City In Japan Is Trying To Make Electricity From Snow
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Jan 11, 2023 |
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Cranberry-Based Packaging Is Plastic-Free And Completely Dissolvable
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Jan 10, 2023 |
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When Richard Nixon And Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev Went For A Drive
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Jan 09, 2023 |
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A New Mexico Lawmaker Tried To Make Expert Witnesses Dress Like Wizards In Court
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Jan 06, 2023 |
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How Aaron “Bunny” Lapin Became The Whipped Cream King
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Jan 05, 2023 |
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Why Don’t We Pronounce The First D In Wednesday?
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Jan 04, 2023 |
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The Leaning Tower Of Pisa Is Straightening Out
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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Rhnull, The Blood Type That Only A Handful Of People In The World Have
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Jan 02, 2023 |
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Betsy Ross May Not Have Made The First Flag, But She Really Did Make Flags
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Jan 01, 2023 |
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For Some People Decades Ago, Winter Was Time For Barrel Jumping
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Dec 30, 2022 |
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Egg Whites Are Helping Get Microplastics Out Of The Ocean
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Dec 29, 2022 |
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Jackdaws Decide When To Take Off As A Group
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Dec 28, 2022 |
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Here’s Why There Aren’t B Batteries
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Dec 27, 2022 |
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A Sailor In An Around-The-World Race Turned Around To Save An Opponent
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Dec 26, 2022 |
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Why “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus” Was Almost Canceled
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Dec 23, 2022 |
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There Are Schools Where You Can Learn To Be Santa
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Dec 22, 2022 |
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If You’re Really Lucky, You Might See The Winter Solstice Inside Newgrange In Ireland
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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Houston’s Hanukkah House Brings All The Lights For The Holidays
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Dec 20, 2022 |
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Ebeneezer Scrooge Might Have Been Based On These Real People
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Dec 19, 2022 |
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The Ferris Wheel Was Designed To Show Up The Eiffel Tower
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Dec 16, 2022 |
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The Birth Of The Blinking Cursor
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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We Can Send Edible Drones To People While They’re Waiting For A Rescue
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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Don Karkos Regained Sight In His Right Eye After A Horse Headbutted Him
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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Frank Sinatra Was Once Offered The Lead Role In “Die Hard”
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Dec 12, 2022 |
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Kecksburg, Pennsylvania Is Home To The World’s Most Famous “Space Acorn”
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Dec 09, 2022 |
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Cheers To The First Woman To Perform Shakespeare Onstage, Whoever She Was
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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When ALS Stopped Jason Becker’s Guitar Playing, He Became An Accomplished Composer
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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The First Cars Licensed As London Taxis Were Electric Vehicles
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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Sarah Biffin, A 19th Century Painter “Without Hands” Who’s Getting 21st Century Recognition
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Dec 05, 2022 |
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Monster Week: Rhinelander, Wisconsin Is America’s Hodag Headquarters
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Dec 02, 2022 |
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Monster Week: Milicent Patrick Gave The Black Lagoon Its Creature
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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Monster Week: Whatever’s In Loch Ness Isn’t What’s In The Famous Loch Ness Monster Photo
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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Monster Week: How “Them!” Became The Greatest Giant Ant Movie Of Its Generation
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Nov 29, 2022 |
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Monster Week: The Big Muddy Monster Ran Wild In Murphysboro
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Nov 28, 2022 |
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The "Snow Bowl" Proved Playing College Football In A Blizzard Is Hard
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Nov 25, 2022 |
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When “WKRP” Thought Turkeys Could Fly For Thanksgiving
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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President Franklin Pierce Got An Acclaimed Author To Write His Campaign Biography
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Nov 23, 2022 |
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All Work And No Play Makes A Dull Bumblebee
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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The Classic Black And White Soccer Ball Was Designed To Look Like A Satellite
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Nov 21, 2022 |
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When Alan Shepard Hit Golf Balls On The Moon
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Nov 18, 2022 |
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Colorado’s State Capitol Has Pretty Much All The World’s Rose Onyx
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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The “McBarge” Was A Floating Wonderland Of Fast Food
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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Helen Hulick, Who Went To Jail For The Right To Wear Slacks In Court
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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The American Warship That Accidentally Launched A Torpedo At FDR
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Nov 14, 2022 |
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A Comanche Code Talker Sent The First Message From Utah Beach On D-Day
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Nov 11, 2022 |
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With A Name Like The Hope Diamond, It’s Gotta Be Cursed (Or Not)
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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Piano Chords May Help Stop Chronic Nightmares
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Nov 09, 2022 |
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How Auctioneers Keep Up Their Patter And Get Bidders To Bid
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Nov 08, 2022 |
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The “Parcel Post Bank” Was Mailed To Its Construction Site, A Few Bricks At A Time
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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When South New Jersey Wanted To Become Its Own State
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Nov 04, 2022 |
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The Worst Sandwich Ever Was A Way To Get Around Anti-Liquor Laws
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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When Marlon Brando Hosts An Acting Seminar, It Can Get Really Wild
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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Repainting The White House Takes 570 Gallons Of Paint
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Nov 01, 2022 |
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A Couple In Texas Made A Replica Of The Munsters’ TV House
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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Why Audiences Throw Things At The Stage, Though Obviously They Shouldn’t
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Oct 28, 2022 |
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Farming Robots Are Weeding The Fields With Lasers
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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The New York Mets Once Made A Mule Their Mascot
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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Florence Foster Jenkins Stunned Carnegie Hall With Her Singing
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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The United Nations Is Home To The World’s Countries, And Bees
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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Who Was Granny Smith And How Did She Get An Apple Named After Her?
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Oct 21, 2022 |
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Googly Eyes On Self-Driving Cars Could Help Keep Pedestrians Safe
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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Need To Build A House Quick? Try Inflatable Walls That Get Filled With Concrete
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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There’s A Bulldozer Under The University Of Illinois’ Stadium - Or Is There?
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Oct 18, 2022 |
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The Inventor Of Fettuccine Alfredo Was - No Surprise - A Guy Named Alfredo
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Oct 17, 2022 |
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A Quick Look At Superfast Bullet Trains
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Oct 14, 2022 |
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A New Brace Can Treat Scoliosis Without Cramping The Wearer’s Style
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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Teams Of High-Tech Drones Can 3D Print In The Air
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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Each Year, London Pays Rent To The Crown For Land That’s… Somewhere
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Oct 11, 2022 |
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The Talking Stamps Of Bhutan
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Oct 10, 2022 |
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A College Football Game Ended With A Score Of 222-0
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Oct 07, 2022 |
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For Decades, The Chicago Cubs Missed The World Series, And Fans Blamed It On The Curse Of The Billy Goat
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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Hisako Koyama Tracked Sunspots For Almost Half A Century
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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Margaret Abbott Won Olympic Gold Even Though She Didn’t Know She Was In The Olympics
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Oct 04, 2022 |
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The U.S. Had An Aunt Sammy As Well As An Uncle Sam
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Oct 03, 2022 |
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Abel Gonzales Is The Fried Food King Of The Texas State Fair
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Sep 30, 2022 |
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The Original Declaration Of Independence Had A Rough Century Or So
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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Mike Yurosek, The Founding Father Of Baby Carrots
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Sep 28, 2022 |
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The Dunce Cap Was Once A Hat Worn By Great Scholars
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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Cop Rock, The Show Where Police Sang As They Solved Crimes
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Sep 26, 2022 |
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There’s A House In The Middle Of France’s Loire River
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Sep 23, 2022 |
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With Solar-Reflective Paint, School Playgrounds Are Getting Cooler
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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It’s September 21st, So Of Course We're Doing A Show About Earth, Wind & Fire's "September"
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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The “Lunch Atop A Skyscraper” Photo Was Originally A Publicity Stunt
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Sep 20, 2022 |
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The Play Where All The Actors Were Dogs
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Sep 19, 2022 |
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Under The Sea Week: How Space Might Save The Whales
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Sep 16, 2022 |
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Under The Sea Week: Ship To Shark Communication
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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Under The Sea Week: The CIA Once Created Robot Fish
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Sep 14, 2022 |
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Under The Sea Week: Pilot Whales Trick Their Predators By Mimicking Their Voices
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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Under The Sea Week: The Greenland Shark Can Live For Hundreds Of Years, So Don’t Make It Mad
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Sep 12, 2022 |
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Queen Elizabeth II Had A Bunch Of Birthdays
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Sep 09, 2022 |
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Harrison Dyar, Who Made Digging Tunnels In Washington, DC His Hobby
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Sep 08, 2022 |
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A 10 Month Old Kitten Once Climbed The Matterhorn… Somehow
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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Meet Some Of The Oldest Books Ever Found
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Sep 06, 2022 |
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How Sunken Ships Wound Up In Farm Fields
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Sep 05, 2022 |
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The Carrington Event, A Huge Magnetic Storm That Let Telegraph Operators Send Messages Through The Air
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Sep 02, 2022 |
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Room 8, The Cat Named For A Classroom In L.A.
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Sep 01, 2022 |
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High-Tech Clothes Could Also Be A Battery That We Can Power
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Aug 31, 2022 |
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Linda Christensen, The Minnesota State Fair’s Legendary Butter Sculptor
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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The Robot That Could Do Surgeries In Space
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Aug 29, 2022 |
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Bobbie The Wonder Dog Walked From Indiana To Oregon
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Aug 26, 2022 |
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Pat Martino Became A Jazz Guitar Great - Twice
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Aug 25, 2022 |
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Pitcher Ray Caldwell Was Struck By Lightning During A Game But Won Anyway
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Aug 24, 2022 |
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How To Make 2,000 Year Old Seeds Sprout
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Aug 23, 2022 |
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Dorothy Parker Could’ve Come Up With A More Clever Title For This Episode Than We Did
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Aug 22, 2022 |
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A College Student In The 1890s Became The Candid Camera Of Norway
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Aug 19, 2022 |
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Stingrays Make Noise, And Now We Know What It Sounds Like
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Aug 18, 2022 |
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Could We Replace Concrete Walls With Ones Made Of 3D-Printed Soil?
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Aug 17, 2022 |
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How Two Deaf Mountaineers Plan To Climb The Seven Summits
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Aug 16, 2022 |
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The Pet Rock Started As A Dad Joke And Ended Up As A Million Dollar Idea
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Aug 15, 2022 |
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George Jetson Has Just Been Born, According To The Internet
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Aug 12, 2022 |
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We Could Soon Do Ultrasounds Through A Wearable Patch
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Aug 11, 2022 |
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There Was A Movement To Make Sicily Part Of The US
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Aug 10, 2022 |
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That Time Some Dude Drove A Van Dressed As A Car Seat
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Aug 09, 2022 |
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Why So Many Old Paintings Have Dogs Holding Lit Flares In Their Mouths
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Aug 08, 2022 |
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Coffee Week: It’s All Pumpkin Spice From Here On Out
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Aug 05, 2022 |
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Coffee Week: Meet The New, Foldable Coffee Cup
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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Coffee Week: Drinking Coffee Out Of Coffee Cups Made From Coffee
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Aug 03, 2022 |
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Coffee Week: Robots Can Walk Better, Thanks To Coffee
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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Coffee Week: The Olympic Team That Paid Its Way By Selling Coffee
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Aug 01, 2022 |
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Coffee Milk Is The Official State Drink Of Rhode Island
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Jul 29, 2022 |
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There’s A Plastic-Free Food Wrap You Kind Of Spray On
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Jul 28, 2022 |
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A Mirror From The 16th Century Just Revealed Its Secret
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Jul 27, 2022 |
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Brushing Our Teeth With Help From Nanorobots
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Jul 26, 2022 |
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Tenino, Washington, The Town That Makes Its Own Money Out Of Wood
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Jul 25, 2022 |
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The Price Is Right Contestant Who Couldn’t Lose At Plinko
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Jul 22, 2022 |
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Omar Kneidlik And The ICEE Made Summer A Lot Cooler
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Jul 21, 2022 |
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Bishops Used To Be Elephants, And Other Wild Stories About How Chess Pieces Got Their Names
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Jul 20, 2022 |
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The Time Pittsburgh Lost Its H - And Then Got It Back
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Jul 19, 2022 |
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Gino Bartali Was A Champion And A Hero On A Bike
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Jul 18, 2022 |
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If Humans Land On Mars, Telling Time Will Get A Lot More Complicated
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Jul 15, 2022 |
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Here’s What 3,000 Year Old Pants Are Like
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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During World War I, Photographers Made A “Human Statue of Liberty” Out Of 18,000 Soldiers
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Jul 13, 2022 |
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Latvia Has Blue Cows And A Play Helped Save Them
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Jul 12, 2022 |
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At Age 11, Venetia Burney Named Pluto
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Jul 11, 2022 |
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Bessie Stringfield Became Miami’s “Motorcycle Queen”
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Jul 08, 2022 |
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John Harrison Lived The Dream As A World-Class Ice Cream Taste Tester
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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How Did US Dollars Get Their Name?
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Jul 06, 2022 |
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A Chess “Robot” Beat Grand Masters In The 18th Century - Sort Of
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Jul 05, 2022 |
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The U.S. Once Got A Fourth Of July Card From Over 5 Million Polish People
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Jul 04, 2022 |
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Wat Misaka Was A Pro Basketball Pioneer (And A Pretty Impressive Bowler, Too)
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Jul 01, 2022 |
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Billy Mills Pulled Off One Of The Greatest Upsets In Olympic History
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Jun 30, 2022 |
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Bats Can Remember Our Ringtones
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Jun 29, 2022 |
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New York City Used To Deliver Mail Through Pneumatic Tubes
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Jun 28, 2022 |
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Helen Keller Once Flew A Plane, No Matter What People On The Internet Think
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Jun 27, 2022 |
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Jim Gernhart Rehearsed His Own Funeral For 25 Years
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Jun 24, 2022 |
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A Typewriter Inventor Was Trying To Help A Blind Friend Send Letters
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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A Rare Blood Condition Led To The “Blue People Of Kentucky”
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Jun 22, 2022 |
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The Yakhchāl Was A Refrigerator Thousands Of Years Before Refrigerators Were Invented
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Jun 21, 2022 |
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Instead Of West Virginia, The US Could Have Had The State Of Westsylvania
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Jun 20, 2022 |
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Unusual Music Week: Now That’s A Deep Cut: Music Scholars Bring Back “Lost” Songs From 1,000 Years Ago
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Jun 17, 2022 |
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Unusual Music Week: Meet The Fake Beatles
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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Unusual Music Week: A Song That Takes 639 Years To Play Just Had A Chord Change
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Jun 15, 2022 |
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Unusual Music Week: The Oomphalapompatronium Is An Instrument That Lives Up To Its Unusual Name
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Jun 14, 2022 |
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Unusual Music Week: The Pizza and Pipe Organ Connection
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Jun 13, 2022 |
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Portugal Once Moved Its Capital City To South America
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Jun 10, 2022 |
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If It’s Thursday, It’s Time For Pea Soup And Pancakes In Sweden
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Jun 09, 2022 |
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Frank Lloyd Wright Designed A Gas Station In Minnesota
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Jun 08, 2022 |
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A Wristband Can Help Keep Firefighters Healthy
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Jun 07, 2022 |
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Drive In Theaters Were Invented Partly So People Wouldn’t Have To Dress Up At The Movies
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Jun 06, 2022 |
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Hanson Gregory, The Sea Captain Who Gave The Doughnut Its Hole
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Jun 03, 2022 |
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A Guy In Massachusetts Made Pretty Much His Whole House Out Of Old Newspapers
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Jun 02, 2022 |
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The Twin Sisters Whose Birthdays Are 87 Days Apart
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Jun 01, 2022 |
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The Smart Pacifier Is A High-Tech Wearable That Helps Keep Newborns Healthy
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May 31, 2022 |
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The “Murph Challenge,” A Grueling Memorial Day Workout In Tribute To A Navy SEAL
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May 30, 2022 |
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“Smart Work Zones” Can Keep Workers Safe On Roads And Highways
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May 27, 2022 |
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Our Undersea Internet Cables Are Also Pretty Good Earthquake Detectors
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May 26, 2022 |
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The Original Death Star Model Ended Up As A Garbage Can
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May 25, 2022 |
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New Zealand’s Parliament Has A “Biscuit Tin of Democracy”
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May 24, 2022 |
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The Sometimes Salty History of the Cheez-It
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May 23, 2022 |
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How A Doctor In Norway Survived Extreme Hypothermia
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May 20, 2022 |
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Scientists May Be Able To Recreate Cleopatra’s Perfume
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May 19, 2022 |
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When Jacqueline Cochran Broke The Sound Barrier
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May 18, 2022 |
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Donald Gorske Has Eaten 30,000 Big Macs And He’s Still Going
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May 17, 2022 |
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These Smart Glasses Can Describe The World For Blind Wearers
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May 16, 2022 |
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Every Year The Netherlands Sends Thousands Of Tulips To Canada
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May 13, 2022 |
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R-14, The Submarine That Made It Back To Port Using Blankets As Sails
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May 12, 2022 |
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James Harrison May Have Been The Best Blood Donor Of All Time
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May 11, 2022 |
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Tomatoes Are Fruit, But The Supreme Court Once Ruled That They’re Vegetables
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May 10, 2022 |
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Colorful Crosswalks May Be Safer Crosswalks
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May 09, 2022 |
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The Cold War Brought Homework Back To American Students
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May 06, 2022 |
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A Town In France Could Have Bioluminescent Street Lights
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May 05, 2022 |
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Molly Williams Was A New York Firefighter Before There Was a New York Fire Department
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May 04, 2022 |
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Stone Age People Figured Out How To Do A Kind Of Animation
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May 03, 2022 |
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Two Tennis Greats Played A Match On A Half-Grass, Half-Clay Court
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May 02, 2022 |
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Time Week: What Time Was Like Before Time Zones
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Apr 29, 2022 |
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Time Week: An Art Project Is Taking Photos Over A Thousand Years
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Apr 28, 2022 |
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Time Week: For A Person Who’s Hiding Something, Time Slows Down
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Apr 27, 2022 |
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Time Week: How Do Time Zones Work At Earth’s Poles?
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Apr 26, 2022 |
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Time Week: The Time Samoa Didn’t Have Time For December 30th
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Apr 25, 2022 |
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Need Clean Drinking Water? Try A Desalination Skylight
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Apr 22, 2022 |
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The Time Geraldo Rivera Opened Al Capone’s Vault And Found A Whole Lot Of Nothing
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Apr 21, 2022 |
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During The Cold War, A Town In New Mexico Built An Underground Grade School
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Apr 20, 2022 |
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In Rural America, Some People Turned Their Wire Fences Into Phone Lines
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Apr 19, 2022 |
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Bats Who Randomly End Up Living Together Sometimes Become Friends
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Apr 18, 2022 |
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Rock Fans In The Soviet Union Turned Old X-Ray Plates Into Bootleg LPs
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Apr 15, 2022 |
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William Mumler, The Photographer Who Had “Spirits” In His Pictures
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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Every Baseball In A Major League Game Gets Covered In This Special Mud
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Apr 13, 2022 |
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Waiters In Paris Once Went On Strike Over Mustaches
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Apr 12, 2022 |
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Candy Land, The Board Game Made For Kids Who Couldn’t Leave The Polio Ward
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Apr 11, 2022 |
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One Of Aerosmith’s Biggest Hits Happened Partly Because Of A Mel Brooks Movie
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Apr 08, 2022 |
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In The 60s, There Was A Plan To Make Houses Out Of Heineken Bottles
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Apr 07, 2022 |
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Mary Patten, 19 Year Old Sea Captain
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Apr 06, 2022 |
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The Pack Horse Librarians Brought Books To Readers In Remote Places
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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The Loudest Emergency Siren Of All Time Could Even Make It Rain
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Apr 04, 2022 |
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At The Arkansas State Capitol, They Let Visitors Hold Actual Taxpayer Dollars
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Apr 01, 2022 |
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The Town In New Mexico That Renamed Itself After A Game Show
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Mar 31, 2022 |
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The Peculiar Reason Chicken, Alaska Got Its Name
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Mar 30, 2022 |
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The Grandson Of A President From The 1840s Is Alive In The 2020s
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Mar 29, 2022 |
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A Sprained Ankle Helped Bring Pippi Longstocking To The World
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Mar 28, 2022 |
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Two Forecasters Figured Out How To Predict Tornadoes, Right Before One Touched Down
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Mar 25, 2022 |
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Need A Little Pain Relief? Nostalgia Can Help
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Mar 24, 2022 |
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The HMS Challenger Expedition Showed The World What Ocean Life Was Really Like
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Mar 23, 2022 |
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This Worm-Shaped Pipe-Clearing Robot Could Be The Fatberg Fighter We Need
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Mar 22, 2022 |
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The Most Poisonous Wallpaper Ever Had Arsenic In It
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Mar 21, 2022 |
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Solar-Powered Cribs Are A Bright Idea To Stop Jaundice
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Mar 21, 2022 |
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This Vole Protects Itself From Predators By Cutting The Grass
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Mar 18, 2022 |
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Mill Ends Park In Portland Is The World’s Smallest Park
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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Caroline Herschel Discovered Comets And Became A Star
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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Chester Greenwood Brought Earmuffs To Cold-Eared People All Over The World
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Mar 15, 2022 |
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A Chef Got Irritated With A Wealthy Diner And That’s Why We Have Potato Chips
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Mar 14, 2022 |
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An Algorithm Is Opening A Window Into The Many Moods Of Pigs
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Mar 11, 2022 |
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“The Fastest Cyclist In The World,” Major Taylor, Was A Black Sports Pioneer
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Mar 10, 2022 |
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Lionel Richie Once Went Clothes Shopping For Nelson Mandela
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Mar 09, 2022 |
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Dinosaurs Got Sore Throats And Sniffles, Apparently
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Mar 08, 2022 |
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When Louisiana Built Its Own “White House”
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Mar 07, 2022 |
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The Time Chicago Had To Be Raised Fourteen Feet
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Mar 04, 2022 |
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Growing Bone Tissue With Sound Waves
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Mar 03, 2022 |
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Wilt Chamberlain’s 100 Point Game Was Truly One Of A Kind
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Mar 02, 2022 |
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The Exploding Hammer Festival Of San Juan de la Vega
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Mar 01, 2022 |
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In Sweden In 1712, February Had 30 Days
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Feb 28, 2022 |
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Presidents Week: When Abe Lincoln Said Thanks, But No Thanks, To A Herd Of Elephants
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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Presidents Week: Lyndon Johnson Had A Not So Great Leap Day
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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Presidents Week: Gerald Ford Stayed In His Own House, Not The White House, After He Became President
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Feb 23, 2022 |
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Presidents Week: When A Raccoon Lived At The White House
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Feb 22, 2022 |
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Presidents Week: Jimmy Carter Vs. The Swamp Rabbit
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Feb 21, 2022 |
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The Hospital Of The Future’s Secret Weapon Is Surgical “Duct Tape”
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Feb 18, 2022 |
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Jets Can Burn Less Fuel Thanks To Electric Towing
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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“Mummy Brown” Was A Paint Made From Actual Mummies
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Feb 16, 2022 |
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In One Game, Jason McElwain Became A High School Basketball Legend
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Feb 15, 2022 |
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The Highly Photographic Life Of Frederick Douglass
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Feb 14, 2022 |
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The Lincoln Memorial Has A Basement
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Feb 11, 2022 |
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Charles Oldrieve, The Man Who Walked On Water
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Feb 10, 2022 |
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Detroit-Style Pizza Got Its Shape From Another Famous Detroit Industry
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Feb 09, 2022 |
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A Delicious Cookie With A Bad Name Won’t Taste As Sweet
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Feb 08, 2022 |
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Basketball Great Lisa Leslie Scored 101 Points In A High School Game
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Feb 07, 2022 |
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Bruce Kennedy Qualified For The Olympics Three Times, And Missed Out Three Times
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Feb 04, 2022 |
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The "Six Triple Eight" Brought Black Excellence To The Army During World War II
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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The “Cornfield Bomber” Landed Itself Without A Pilot
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Feb 02, 2022 |
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Wally Funk, At Long Last An Astronaut
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Feb 01, 2022 |
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This Plan To Build Wood-Like Panels Is Nuts - No, Really
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Jan 31, 2022 |
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To Live At This Antarctic Base, You Have To Have Your Appendix Out
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Jan 28, 2022 |
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String Figures Help Tell Indigenous Stories Across The World
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Jan 27, 2022 |
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The Time Paul Newman Really Didn’t Want People To See A Paul Newman Movie
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Jan 26, 2022 |
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Nellie Bly Made It Around The World In 72 Days
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Jan 25, 2022 |
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Keith Jarrett Improvised A Classic Live Album On A Not-Quite-Right Piano
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Jan 24, 2022 |
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When Pinball Was Public Enemy Number One
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Jan 21, 2022 |
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Stretchable Batteries Could Make Wearable Tech More Wearable
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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Bob Heft Designed The 50-Star U.S. Flag In High School
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Jan 19, 2022 |
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Winnie the Pooh Is Named For A Zoo Bear And A Swan
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Jan 18, 2022 |
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Stevie Wonder Went On Tour To Make Martin Luther King Jr. Day A National Holiday
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Jan 17, 2022 |
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A Carpooling App Could Help Stop Traffic Jams In Ski Country
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Jan 14, 2022 |
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When Johnny Cash Came To Folsom Prison
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Jan 13, 2022 |
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The Chicago Cubs Once Had A “College of Coaches” Instead of a Manager
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Jan 12, 2022 |
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Washington Phillips, A Legendary Gospel Musician Surrounded By Musical Mysteries
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Jan 11, 2022 |
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When 28,800 Rubber Duckies Fell Into The Pacific Ocean
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Jan 10, 2022 |
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Richard Nixon Once Had The White House Guard Dress In Fancy White Uniforms
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Jan 07, 2022 |
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The Glass Armonica, A Musical Instrument Invented By Benjamin Franklin
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Jan 06, 2022 |
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The Procrastinators Club Proved It Can Be Good To Put Things Off
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Jan 05, 2022 |
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Here’s Some Trivia About The Word Trivia
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Jan 04, 2022 |
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Kugel Balls Are Huge And Heavy But We Can Move Them
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Jan 03, 2022 |
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What Exactly Is A Calorie And Why Do So Many People Loathe Them Every January?
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Jan 01, 2022 |
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A Wooden Clock That Writes Out The Time
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Dec 31, 2021 |
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With The Emotional Clothing Collection, You Really Can Wear Your Heart On Your Sleeve
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Dec 30, 2021 |
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Houston Has Its Own Beer Can House
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Dec 29, 2021 |
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A Town In Iowa Is Celebrating Captain Kirk’s Birthday Centuries Before It Happens
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Dec 28, 2021 |
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There’s An Art Gallery That Celebrates Rust
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Dec 27, 2021 |
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The Fiaccole of Abbadia San Salvatore Literally Make The Holiday Season Bright
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Dec 24, 2021 |
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Salvador Dalí Used To Draw Christmas Cards For Hallmark
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Dec 23, 2021 |
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How The Beatles Stitched Two Takes Of “Strawberry Fields Forever” Into A Rock Classic
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Dec 22, 2021 |
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The Woman Who Brought Hollywood To Communist Romania
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Dec 21, 2021 |
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A 16 Year Old In Nebraska Once Bought His Town’s Jail
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Dec 20, 2021 |
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When A Saturday Night Live Fan Got To Host Saturday Night Live
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Dec 17, 2021 |
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Bacteria Can Make Ink For 3D Printers Now
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Dec 16, 2021 |
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Two Guys Wanted A Good Trivia Game To Play, So They Invented Trivial Pursuit
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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Table Tennis Is Also Called Ping Pong, And Was Almost Called “Whiff-Whaff”
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Dec 14, 2021 |
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Clever Hans, The Horse That “Solved” Math Problems
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Dec 13, 2021 |
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Up In The Air Week: Lawn Chair Larry Takes To The Sky
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Dec 10, 2021 |
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Up In The Air Week: You Call This Archaeology?
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Dec 09, 2021 |
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Up In The Air Week: The Life And Flights Of Jerrie Cobb
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Dec 08, 2021 |
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Up In The Air Week: When The Flyover Flies Over The Wrong Spot
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Dec 07, 2021 |
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Up In The Air Week: How A Pedal-Powered Airplane Crossed The English Channel
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Dec 06, 2021 |
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Competitive Dreidel Is The Best New Hanukkah Tradition (Hanukkah Special)
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Dec 03, 2021 |
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PEZ Was Sold In Metal Tins Before Its Famous Dispensers Were Invented
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Dec 02, 2021 |
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The First Skywriting Was, No Surprise, For Advertising
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Dec 01, 2021 |
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Elizabeth Hodges, The Woman Who Was Hit By A Meteorite
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Nov 30, 2021 |
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Eugene Polley Let The World Change Channels Without Getting Up
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Nov 29, 2021 |
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“Casablanca” Almost Had A Sequel - Twice
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Nov 26, 2021 |
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Wanda And Jamal, The Best Accidental Thanksgiving Friends Ever
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Nov 25, 2021 |
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Scott Joplin, The King Of Ragtime, Also Wrote Operas
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Nov 24, 2021 |
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High Tech Clothes Could Start Your Car Or Pay For Your Groceries
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Nov 23, 2021 |
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Here’s A Bacterium That Can “Eat” Metal
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Nov 22, 2021 |
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Dancers At This Glasgow Club Are Going To Heat The Place With Their Moves
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Nov 19, 2021 |
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A Robot Seacraft Is Exploring The Ocean For A Few Years
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Nov 18, 2021 |
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The Star Wars Holiday Special Brought Extra Weirdness To The Galaxy
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Nov 17, 2021 |
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The Outer Limits Of The US Are Really Out There
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Nov 16, 2021 |
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Massachusetts Is Putting Solar Panels On Highway Sound Barriers
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Nov 15, 2021 |
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Being Nice Really Can Make The World Around You Nicer, Science Has Shown It
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Nov 12, 2021 |
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After The Civil War, William Oland Bourne And Veterans Organized A “Left-Armed Corps”
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Nov 11, 2021 |
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How A Giant Pack Of Life Savers Ended Up In A Northern New York Town
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Nov 10, 2021 |
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In A Million Years, Earth Could Be Home To Some Weird Creatures
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Nov 09, 2021 |
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Three Pro Basketball Players Once Played For Both Teams In A Single Game
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Nov 08, 2021 |
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John Hanson, The Guy Who Was Sort Of President Before George Washington
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Nov 05, 2021 |
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A Bar Owner Invented The Cash Register Because He Didn’t Trust His Bartenders
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Nov 04, 2021 |
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The Undertaker Who Developed Automatic Phone Dialing
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Nov 03, 2021 |
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John Titor, A “Time Traveler” Who Traveled To The Early Days Of The Internet
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Nov 02, 2021 |
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Fort Blunder, The Military Installation Built In The Wrong Country
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Nov 01, 2021 |
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An Email Mixup Led To A Very Strange Welsh Road Sign
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Oct 29, 2021 |
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The Statue Of Liberty Sat In Pieces Until A Crowdfunding Campaign Got The Job Done
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Oct 28, 2021 |
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What Did Ghosts Look Like To People 3,500 Years Ago?
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Oct 27, 2021 |
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Incubus, The Esperanto-Language Movie Starring William Shatner
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Oct 26, 2021 |
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Could Jokes About Uranus Prevent A Mission To Uranus?
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Oct 25, 2021 |
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The Way We Walk Around Museums Can Hurt Our Backs
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Oct 22, 2021 |
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Carlton Fisk’s Home Run Wave Changed TV Sports, But It Almost Didn’t Get Filmed At All
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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High Jumper Dick Fosbury’s Biggest Win Was Also A Flop
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Oct 20, 2021 |
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Pigeons Would Make Pretty Good Art Critics
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Oct 19, 2021 |
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Félicette, The First Cat In Space
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Oct 18, 2021 |
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Grace Bedell, The Girl Who Got Abe Lincoln To Grow A Beard
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Oct 15, 2021 |
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Indiana Bell Rotated And Moved Its Office Building - And Kept Working There During The Move
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Oct 14, 2021 |
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Ellen Ochoa Blazed Trails In Space (And Played The Flute Up There)
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Oct 13, 2021 |
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The Next Big Thing In Home Insulation? Mushrooms
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Oct 12, 2021 |
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Edmonia Lewis, A Sculptor Who Brought Her Subjects To Life
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Oct 11, 2021 |
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Mollusk Shells Inspire An “Unbreakable” Glass
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Oct 08, 2021 |
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The Rhino That Won A Seat On São Paulo’s City Council
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Oct 07, 2021 |
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The “Chat Checkout” In The Netherlands Makes Sure Everyone Has Someone To Talk To
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Oct 06, 2021 |
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A Nigerian Energy Startup Literally Gives Power To The People
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Oct 05, 2021 |
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Donald J. Sobol’s Encyclopedia Brown Books Taught Young Readers To Solve Mysteries
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Oct 04, 2021 |
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Melitta Bentz Gave Coffee Lovers A Filter To Keep The Grounds Out Of Their Drinks
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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Sunlight Plus Salt Water Equals A Cooling System
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Sep 30, 2021 |
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Willie Mays Made The Catch, And That Was Only The Start Of His Play
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Sep 29, 2021 |
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Eleonora Sears, A Pioneer In Basically All The Sports
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Sep 28, 2021 |
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The Mountain Goat Airlift Of 2018
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Sep 27, 2021 |
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These Worms Have No Ears But They Hear Pretty Well Anyway
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Sep 24, 2021 |
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The Jetsons Gave 1962 A Glimpse Of The Future
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Sep 23, 2021 |
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Leonard Cohen, Of All People, Once Played A Villain On “Miami Vice”
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Sep 22, 2021 |
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The Parrots That Almost Did Publicity For A Mae West Movie
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Sep 21, 2021 |
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A Liner Note Detective Wants The World To Know Something About The “London Calling” Cover Photo
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Sep 20, 2021 |
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The Cheeseburger Has More Than One Origin Story
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Sep 17, 2021 |
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Two Families Escaped East Germany In A Homemade Hot Air Balloon
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Sep 16, 2021 |
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When Agatha Christie Wasn’t Writing Mysteries, She Was Surfing
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Sep 15, 2021 |
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Two Tortoises Orbited The Moon Before Humans Did
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Sep 14, 2021 |
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A Century Ago, Hugo Gernsback Predicted Telemedicine
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Sep 13, 2021 |
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Babies Babble, And So Do Baby Bats
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Sep 10, 2021 |
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Back Off, Or This Octopus May Throw Something At You
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Sep 09, 2021 |
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The Spite House, An Elegant, Expensive Way To Get Back At Somebody
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Sep 08, 2021 |
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Yuan Longping Developed The Rice That Fed Millions
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Sep 07, 2021 |
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A Piece Of Sputnik Once Landed In Wisconsin
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Sep 06, 2021 |
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Emma Schols Saved Her Six Kids From A Burning House
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Sep 03, 2021 |
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These Sneakers Are Carbon-Negative, Because They’re Made Of Carbon
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Sep 02, 2021 |
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Fruit Flies Make Up Customized Songs To Impress Potential Mates
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Sep 01, 2021 |
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NestFlix Is The Internet’s Home For Shows Within Shows
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Aug 31, 2021 |
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There’s A Farm In The Middle Of A British Highway
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Aug 30, 2021 |
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Trischa Zorn, The Swimming Great With 55 Paralympic Medals
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Aug 27, 2021 |
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The Popsicle Was Invented By An 11 Year Old Who Forgot To Clean Up After Himself
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Aug 26, 2021 |
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The Biggest Ball Of Twine In Minnesota Is Real, And It’s Spectacular
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Aug 25, 2021 |
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Comic Sans, The Number One Typeface For Virtual Dogs That Help Kids Use Computers
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Aug 24, 2021 |
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There Was Almost A State Called Franklin In Eastern Tennessee
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Aug 23, 2021 |
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Ora Nichols Took Radio Sound Effects To The Next Level
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Aug 20, 2021 |
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Boeing Once Used Potatoes To Test In-Flight WiFi
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Aug 19, 2021 |
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How To Make Protein Powder Out Of Waste Plastic
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Aug 18, 2021 |
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The Guy Who Climbed Mount Hood To Drop Off A Morning Paper For His Friends
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Aug 17, 2021 |
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Robots Are Trying To Clean Up The Beaches
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Aug 16, 2021 |
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Roadside Attractions Week: The Giant Potato Airbnb And Other Wild Places To Stay
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Aug 13, 2021 |
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Roadside Attractions Week: Sometimes Towns Just Have To Build Statues To Invasive Pests
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Aug 12, 2021 |
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Roadside Attractions Week: Why Does A Water Tower In Kentucky Say “Florence Y’All”?
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Aug 11, 2021 |
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Roadside Attractions Week: A Rock Painter In New Hampshire Really Loves A Chicken Farmer
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Aug 10, 2021 |
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Roadside Attractions Week: The Muffler Men And Uniroyal Gals Of Route 66
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Aug 09, 2021 |
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How A Statue In Lucille Ball’s Honor Became Known As “Scary Lucy”
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Aug 06, 2021 |
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When Countries Stayed Out Of The Olympics, They Held Their Own Olympic-Style Games
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Aug 05, 2021 |
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Germany Schaefer, The Baseball Player Who Stole First Base
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Aug 04, 2021 |
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“Eric The Eel” Won An Olympic Heat With The Slowest Time In The Field
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Aug 03, 2021 |
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Could Juggling Be The Next Big Olympic Sport?
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Aug 02, 2021 |
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Anybody Can Be An Olympic Star, At Least In A Video Game
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Jul 30, 2021 |
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Women Couldn’t Compete In The Ancient Olympics, So They Held The Heraean Games Instead
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Jul 29, 2021 |
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The Original Olympic Flag Went Missing For Over 70 Years
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Jul 28, 2021 |
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Two Olympians Turned A Silver And A Bronze Into “Medals Of Friendship”
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Jul 27, 2021 |
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The 1904 Men’s Marathon Was The Weirdest Olympic Race Ever
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Jul 26, 2021 |
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Some Olympians Won Medals For Painting And Shooting Cannons
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Jul 23, 2021 |
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Meet The High-Tech Stoplight Of The Future
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Jul 22, 2021 |
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Ernest Hemingway’s Brother Tried To Make Half Of A Raft Into A Country
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Jul 21, 2021 |
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A Felt Tip Pen Helped Get Apollo 11’s Moonwalkers Back To Earth
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Jul 20, 2021 |
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Agnes B. Marshall, The First “Queen” Of Ice Cream
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Jul 19, 2021 |
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Somebody Wanted To Put The Library Of Congress In The Capitol Dome
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Jul 16, 2021 |
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Twitter’s “Fail Whale” Turned Out To Be A Big Success
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Jul 15, 2021 |
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The Guy Who Traded A Paper Clip And Ended Up With A House
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Jul 14, 2021 |
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The Plastic Bags Of Today Could Be The Fashionable Fabric Of Tomorrow
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Jul 13, 2021 |
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To Make “The Great Picture,” Artists Turned A Hangar Into A Pinhole Camera
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Jul 12, 2021 |
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Benny Benson, The 13 Year Old Who Designed Alaska’s Flag
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Jul 09, 2021 |
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Why Don’t Astronauts Do Laundry In Space?
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Jul 08, 2021 |
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How Sliced Bread Became The Greatest Thing Since Itself
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Jul 07, 2021 |
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A Guy Carved Slogans Into Giant Boulders To Get People To Think Positive
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Jul 06, 2021 |
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When Maasai Herders Call The Wrong Number, They May End Up Making A New Friend
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Jul 05, 2021 |
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The Asterisk Has Been Helping Us Qualify Our Sentences For Over Two Millennia
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Jul 02, 2021 |
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How Ethel Merman Helped Get America To Use ZIP Codes
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Jul 01, 2021 |
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“Soft Electronics” Means Even Devices With Holes In Them Could Still Work
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Jun 30, 2021 |
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Before There Was CGI, There Was Special Effects Master Ray Harryhausen
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Jun 29, 2021 |
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It’s The Birthday of “Steady” Ed Headrick, the “Father of Disc Golf”
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Jun 28, 2021 |
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Classic TV Week: 60 Years Ago, The Flintstones Took TV Back Thousands Of Years Ago
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Jun 25, 2021 |
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Classic TV Week: That Time There Was A Laugh Track On “The Twilight Zone”
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Jun 24, 2021 |
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Classic TV Week: It’s The Birthday Of Fawlty Towers, Don’t Mention The War!
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Jun 23, 2021 |
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Classic TV Week: Sanford And Son Was Such A Hit, Its Star Briefly Walked Out And It Kept Going
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Jun 22, 2021 |
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Classic TV Week: Scooby-Doo And Those Meddling Kids Started Solving Groovy Mysteries 50 Years Ago
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Jun 21, 2021 |
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The CIA Once Created Robot Fish
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Jun 18, 2021 |
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The Great Green Wall Is Regreening Parts of Africa’s Sahel
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Jun 17, 2021 |
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Want To Save Water? Put Solar Panels Over Canals
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Jun 16, 2021 |
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Stephen Bishop Explored Mammoth Cave And Shared It With The World
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Jun 15, 2021 |
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It’s Not Just A Giant American Flag, It’s Superflag
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Jun 14, 2021 |
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The Race Up The World’s Longest Staircase
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Jun 11, 2021 |
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Earth Has Five Oceans Now, But Also Just One Ocean, It’s Complicated
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Jun 10, 2021 |
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Shape-Shifting Pasta Could Be The Next Big Sustainable Thing
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Jun 09, 2021 |
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Jerry Stiller Was A Loudmouth Dad On TV, But A Nice Dad In Real Life
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Jun 08, 2021 |
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The Time A Golfer Won The US Open While Suffering From Dysentery
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Jun 07, 2021 |
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Tennis Balls Are Optic Yellow Thanks To David Attenborough
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Jun 04, 2021 |
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Guillaume Le Gentil, The 18th Century Astronomer With the Worst Luck
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Jun 03, 2021 |
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Some Fish Pause For Effect When They Communicate
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Jun 02, 2021 |
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Why People Watch For The Ogopogo When They’re In Canada
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Jun 01, 2021 |
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Holiday Special: The Many One True Birthplaces Of Memorial Day
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May 31, 2021 |
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AI Can Detect Sarcasm Now, Isn’t That Just So Great
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May 28, 2021 |
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Norton I Of San Francisco Declared Himself Emperor Of The United States
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May 27, 2021 |
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When Marvel Printed A KISS Comic Book, The Band Added Its Blood To The Ink
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May 26, 2021 |
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Why A Stormtrooper Walked Helmet-First Into A Door In The Original “Star Wars”
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May 25, 2021 |
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The Deepest Hole People Ever Made
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May 24, 2021 |
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The Super Blood Moon Is When A Bunch Of Cool Moon Things Happen At Once
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May 21, 2021 |
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Why Are Clocks More Accurate The Hotter They Are?
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May 20, 2021 |
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Maybe Our Wildest Dreams Are Wild For A Reason
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May 19, 2021 |
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Turning Plastic Into Jet Fuel, In About An Hour
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May 18, 2021 |
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How Chuck E. Cheese Became The World’s Top Animatronic Mouse Video Gamer And Pizza Restaurateur
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May 17, 2021 |
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Little Leaguer Katie Brownell Once Struck Out Every Batter In An Entire Game
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May 14, 2021 |
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Voyager 1 Hears A “Hum” From Beyond The Solar System
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May 13, 2021 |
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Many Animals Laugh Kind Of Like Humans Do
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May 12, 2021 |
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Harriet Quimby, The Pilot Who Became “Queen of the Channel Crossing”
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May 11, 2021 |
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Fred Astaire Was Once Second Banana To His Sister Adele
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May 10, 2021 |
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Keith Richards Started Writing “Satisfaction” In His Sleep
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May 07, 2021 |
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Bioprinting Clothes (And More) Out Of Algae
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May 06, 2021 |
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Gargoyles Scare People And Protect Buildings At The Same Time
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May 05, 2021 |
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You Can Learn A Lot About Time If You Hang Out In A Cave Away From The Sun
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May 04, 2021 |
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We Can 3D Print Houses Out Of Clay And Soil Now
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May 03, 2021 |
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The Muffler Men And Uniroyal Gals Of Route 66
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Apr 30, 2021 |
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These Biofuel Cells Are Powered By Our Sweat
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Apr 29, 2021 |
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Jessica Anderson, A Record-Setting Marathon-Running Nurse
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Apr 28, 2021 |
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U.S. Grant Once Got Arrested For Speeding While He Was President
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Apr 27, 2021 |
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Cool Weird Awesome trailer
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Apr 26, 2021 |
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Pretzels Have Been Twisting Their Way Into Our Hearts For Over A Millennium
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Apr 26, 2021 |
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Video Game Week: The Game Boy That Doesn’t Need Batteries
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Apr 23, 2021 |
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Video Game Week: In The 1980s, You Downloaded Video Games Off The Radio
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Apr 22, 2021 |
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Video Game Week: Video Games Are Now Medically Necessary
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Apr 21, 2021 |
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Video Game Week: Dear Ralph Baer, Thanks, Signed, All The Video Gamers
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Apr 20, 2021 |
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Video Game Week: How Oregon Trail Inspired A Generation To Learn About Dysentery
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Apr 19, 2021 |
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There’s A New Way To Recycle The Materials We Need For High-Tech Batteries
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Apr 16, 2021 |
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McDonald’s Once Ran A “McTrain” Car In Germany
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Apr 15, 2021 |
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Violet Jessop Lived Through Three Shipwrecks, Including The Titanic
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Apr 14, 2021 |
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How Scrabble Became A Triple Word Scoring Legend Of Board Games
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Apr 13, 2021 |
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Evelyn Berezin And Her Word Processor Brought The Computer Age Closer To Everybody
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Apr 12, 2021 |
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There’s A Way To Turn Old Chewing Gum Into Wheels For Skateboards
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Apr 09, 2021 |
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Goodbye Yahoo Answers, Home Of The Most Bewildering Questions Ever Asked
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Apr 08, 2021 |
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The Parachuting Beavers Of ‘48
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Apr 07, 2021 |
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The Actor Who Made A Living Playing Dead
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Apr 06, 2021 |
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Waterways Could Get Extra Clean After They’re Cleaned By These Drones
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Apr 05, 2021 |
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Here’s How The Pencil Left Its Mark On The World
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Apr 02, 2021 |
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A Sustainable Pacific Island Community That Floats
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Apr 01, 2021 |
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Here’s What Else Could Have Been Built Where The Eiffel Tower Now Stands
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Mar 31, 2021 |
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A High-Tech Bed That Can Help Rock A Preemie
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Mar 30, 2021 |
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Henry Brown Escaped From Slavery By Mailing Himself To Philadelphia
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Mar 29, 2021 |
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A “Mammoth Loaf” Once Turned The U.S. Senate Chamber Into A Big Bread Box
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Mar 26, 2021 |
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Maryland’s Official State Sport Is Jousting
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Mar 25, 2021 |
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Smart Tech Can Help Beekeepers Protect Their Hives
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Mar 24, 2021 |
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How Elevators Started Moving Up In The World
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Mar 23, 2021 |
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The Mystery of the Georgia Guidestones
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Mar 22, 2021 |
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Jim Haynes Brought Everybody To Sunday Dinner
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Mar 21, 2021 |
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In This Town, The Pay Phones Are Going To Ring At The Same Time, For Art
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Mar 19, 2021 |
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The World’s Fanciest Bus Stop
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Mar 18, 2021 |
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People Will Buy “Ugly” Veggies - If Grocers Call Them Ugly
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Mar 17, 2021 |
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Happy Birthday To Closed Captioned Television
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Mar 16, 2021 |
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“Stagecoach” Mary Fields, Montana’s One-Of-A-Kind Mail Carrier
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Mar 15, 2021 |
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A Little Electricity Might Help Heal Our Wounds
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Mar 12, 2021 |
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Self-Directed Robot Fish May Point The Way Toward Roads Full Of Self-Driving Cars
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Mar 11, 2021 |
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Now There Are Glow-In-The-Dark-Sharks
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Mar 10, 2021 |
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“Say My Meme” Is The Podcast That Makes Memes More Inclusive
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Mar 09, 2021 |
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Robot Lifeguards Could Keep People Safe In The Pool
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Mar 08, 2021 |
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How The Hula Hoop Got The World Up And Moving
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Mar 05, 2021 |
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In The 1920s There Was A Footrace From Los Angeles To New York
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Mar 04, 2021 |
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Order A Cold Sandwich And You May Be More Likely To Get Sides, Too
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Mar 03, 2021 |
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The Butler In A Box Was A Smart Speaker Before There Were Smart Speakers
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Mar 02, 2021 |
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The Guy Who Collected The “Sound Of Kmart’s Glory Days”
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Mar 01, 2021 |
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A Window That Can Keep The Outside Noise Down, Even When It’s Open
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Feb 26, 2021 |
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Slime Molds Can Remember Stuff Even Though They Don’t Have Brains
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Feb 25, 2021 |
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This Device Turns Your House Into A Mini Recycling Center
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Feb 24, 2021 |
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The Time Kate Warne, America’s First Female Detective, Saved Abraham Lincoln’s Life
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Feb 23, 2021 |
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Pigs Can Be Video Gamers
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Feb 22, 2021 |
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Candy Week: The US Senate Has A Candy Desk
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Feb 19, 2021 |
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Candy Week: Color-Changing Chocolate Sounds Like A Willy Wonka Invention Brought To Real Life
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Feb 18, 2021 |
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Candy Week: Quit Hating On Candy Corn, At Least Until You Hear Its Story
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Feb 17, 2021 |
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Candy Week: Anyone Need Some Sponge Candy While I'm In Buffalo?
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Feb 16, 2021 |
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Candy Week: This One Goes Out To All My Peeps
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Feb 15, 2021 |
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Milicent Patrick Gave The Black Lagoon Its Creature
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Feb 12, 2021 |
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Some Male Butterflies Make Their Mates Smell Bad On Purpose
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Feb 11, 2021 |
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Fruit Crops Can Stay Safe From Frost Damage With Nanocrystal “Blankets”
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Feb 10, 2021 |
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The Face Masks Of Today Could Become The Roads Of Tomorrow
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Feb 09, 2021 |
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Madagascar Will Be Home To The World’s First 3D-Printed School
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Feb 08, 2021 |
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The Proto-Guitarist Who Rocked Ancient Egypt
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Feb 05, 2021 |
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How The Cheese Curl Was Invented (Partly By Accident)
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Feb 04, 2021 |
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An Online Dictionary For Science Fiction’s Many Words And Worlds
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Feb 03, 2021 |
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Mount Everest May Soon Be Getting Cleaner, And More Arty
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Feb 02, 2021 |
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Elvis Once Flew Halfway Across The Country For A Giant Sandwich
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Feb 01, 2021 |
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When A Raccoon Lived At The White House
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Jan 29, 2021 |
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What Do Sounds Sound Like On Mars? Perseverance Rover Is Going To Find Out
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Jan 28, 2021 |
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Jan 27, 2021 |
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Elizabeth Prettejohn, The Last Person In Hallsands Village
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Jan 26, 2021 |
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39 Years After Making The First Phone Call, Alexander Graham Bell Joined A Transcontinental Conference Call
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Jan 25, 2021 |
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We Can Keep An Eye On Elephants With Satellites
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Jan 22, 2021 |
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When Pat Boone Made A Heavy Metal Record
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Jan 21, 2021 |
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Martin Van Buren May Have Had The Cheesiest First Day Of Any U.S. President
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Jan 20, 2021 |
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When Muhammad Ali Met “Joe” On A Ninth-Floor Fire Escape
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Jan 19, 2021 |
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Came Up With One Of His Most Famous Speeches In Under An Hour
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Jan 18, 2021 |
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The First Top Hat Got Its Inventor Arrested
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Jan 15, 2021 |
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Sanford And Son Was Such A Hit, Its Star Briefly Walked Out And It Kept Going
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Jan 14, 2021 |
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Beethoven May Have Had Metronome Issues
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Jan 13, 2021 |
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The People Of 1921 Had A Good Feeling About 2021
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Jan 12, 2021 |
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What Do Video Game Playing Monkeys Have To Do With The Sunk Cost Fallacy?
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Jan 11, 2021 |
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What Kool-Aid Was Like Before Kool-Aid Man Started Busting Through Walls
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Jan 08, 2021 |
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A Three Minute Audio Tour Of The U.S. Capitol
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Jan 07, 2021 |
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Snow Is White In Real Life; In Paintings It Can Be A Different Story
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Jan 06, 2021 |
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The Netherlands Turned Pole-Sitting Into A Competitive Sport
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Jan 05, 2021 |
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Victor Lustig, The Con Artist Who Sold The Eiffel Tower
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Jan 04, 2021 |
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When Czechoslovakia Split, The Two New Countries Also Split The National Anthem
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Jan 01, 2021 |
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Once Upon A Time, Human Ancestors Tried To Hibernate
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Dec 31, 2020 |
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A Little Dryer That Vacuums All The Water Out of Clothes
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Dec 30, 2020 |
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For A Person Who’s Hiding Something, Time Slows Down
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Dec 29, 2020 |
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A Strike (Or A “Sensitivity Session”) Aboard A Space Station
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Dec 28, 2020 |
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One Pair Of Pants, One Wild Christmas Tradition
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Dec 25, 2020 |
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A Misdialed Phone Number Got Santa Airspace Clearance From The US Military
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Dec 24, 2020 |
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Meet The Inventor Of The Christmas Card
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Dec 23, 2020 |
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Kissing Under A Parasite: How Mistletoe Became A Holiday Tradition
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Dec 22, 2020 |
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The Slightly Wordy History of Crossword Puzzles
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Dec 21, 2020 |
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Full Color Week: Really, Really White Paint Can Act Like A Coat Of Air Conditioning On A Building
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Dec 18, 2020 |
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Full Color Week: “Fordite” Is The Gem Made From Paint At Auto Factories
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Dec 17, 2020 |
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Full Color Week: Fluorescents Just Got Even Brighter
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Dec 16, 2020 |
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Full Color Week The “Vantafish” Is A Fish That Absorbs Light
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Dec 15, 2020 |
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Full Color Week: The Race To Keep Day-Glo Paints Glo-ing
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Dec 14, 2020 |
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The Keyboard Made From Plants
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Dec 11, 2020 |
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Ada Lovelace Was The First Computer Programmer, And Almost The First Computer Musician
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Dec 10, 2020 |
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The Canadiens And Maple Leafs Had A Brawl, And A Hockey Game Broke Out
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Dec 09, 2020 |
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Classic Cars Can Also Be Green Cars, With A Little Work Under The Hood
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Dec 08, 2020 |
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Pilot Whales Trick Their Predators By Mimicking Their Voices
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Dec 07, 2020 |
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Queen Elizabeth I Had Her Guests Eat Gingerbread Men That Looked Like Themselves
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Dec 04, 2020 |
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Let’s Say Something About The Museum Of Nothing
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Dec 03, 2020 |
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A Robot Car That Can Walk As Well As It Drives
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Dec 02, 2020 |
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Eco-Friendly Latex Could Keep A Lot of Gloves Out of Landfills
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Dec 01, 2020 |
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When Bing Crosby Sang a Christmas Duet With David Bowie
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Nov 30, 2020 |
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The Slinky Was Invented By Accident, But What An Accident It Was
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Nov 27, 2020 |
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When The Macy’s Parade Rickrolled Thanksgiving
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Nov 26, 2020 |
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There Used To Be A World Record For Auto Sales
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Nov 25, 2020 |
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There’s A Little Art Museum On The Moon
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Nov 24, 2020 |
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It’s The Birthday Of The Jukebox, The Old-School System For On-Demand Music
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Nov 23, 2020 |
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When A 19 Year Old Drummer Got Onstage With The Who
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Nov 20, 2020 |
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In The Future, Roadside Assistance Could Come From Robots
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Nov 19, 2020 |
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The Greenland Shark Can Live For Hundreds Of Years, So Don’t Make It Mad
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Nov 18, 2020 |
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Emma Gatewood Hiked The Appalachian Trail Three Times, And Not Quite “Just For The Heck Of It”
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Nov 17, 2020 |
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W.C. Handy Laid The Foundation For Modern Music
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Nov 16, 2020 |
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NASA Likes To Say Good Morning To Its Astronauts With Music
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Nov 13, 2020 |
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Fuel Cells Are Strong To The Finish, When They’re Powered By Spinach
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Nov 12, 2020 |
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Central Park’s Almost-Forgotten Tribute To Women Veterans Of World War I
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Nov 11, 2020 |
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The Robot That Can Help People Put In Their Contact Lenses
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Nov 10, 2020 |
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Cincinnati Built An Observatory Any Stargazer Could Use
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Nov 09, 2020 |
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Bats Can Predict Where Their Prey Is Headed
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Nov 06, 2020 |
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Earth Makes A Seismic Pulse Every 26 Seconds
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Nov 05, 2020 |
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The US Senate Has A Candy Desk
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Nov 04, 2020 |
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Before The Lightbulb, Thomas Edison Invented A Voting Machine - And Congress Said No
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Nov 03, 2020 |
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Never Skip The Dedication Page Of A Book, They Can Get Wild
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Nov 02, 2020 |
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Happy Goosey Night, And Mischief Night, And Cabbage Night
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Oct 30, 2020 |
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From Food Waste To Compost In 48 Hours
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Oct 29, 2020 |
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Cows Prefer Face-To-Face Talking Over Remote, And Don’t We All At This Point
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Oct 28, 2020 |
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Can AI Bring Extinct Languages Back To Life?
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Oct 27, 2020 |
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Really, Really White Paint Can Act Like A Coat Of Air Conditioning On A Building
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Oct 26, 2020 |
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Car Week: The Speed Camera That Thought It Caught A Car Going 437 MPH
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Oct 23, 2020 |
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Car Week: Here In My Hollywood Car Exhibit, I Feel Safest Of All
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Oct 22, 2020 |
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Car Week: Smart Intersections Could Help Make Self-Driving Cars Smarter
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Oct 21, 2020 |
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Car Week: When Ford Introduced The Soybean Car
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Oct 20, 2020 |
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Car Week: A Guy In Michigan Drives A Banana Car
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Oct 19, 2020 |
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Dude, Where’s My Billion Years Of Geology
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Oct 16, 2020 |
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Ruth Faison Shaw Is The Founding Mother Of Fingerpaint
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Oct 15, 2020 |
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This Wearable Exosuit Brings Us A Little Closer To Being Iron Man
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Oct 14, 2020 |
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The Florida Town That Has Its Own Mermaids
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Oct 13, 2020 |
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The Teachers Who Became World Class Screamers (But Not At Their Classes)
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Oct 12, 2020 |
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Raising Money For A Good Cause? Choose Your Fonts Wisely
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Oct 09, 2020 |
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These Biodegradable Shoes Have An Expiration Date
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Oct 08, 2020 |
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Why Van Halen Said No To Brown M&Ms
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Earth Is Habitable, But Some Planets May Be Super-Habitable
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Oct 06, 2020 |
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Debates Can Always Be Worse, Ask The Guy Who Poured Water On The Audience
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Oct 05, 2020 |
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Two Football Teams Merged And Became The “Steagles”
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Oct 02, 2020 |
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“Fordite” Is The Gem Made From Paint At Auto Factories
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Oct 01, 2020 |
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60 Years Ago, The Flintstones Took TV Back Thousands Of Years Ago
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Sep 30, 2020 |
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The Olympic Team That Paid Its Way By Selling Coffee
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Sep 29, 2020 |
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Going For A Walk Could Generate Wind Power
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Sep 28, 2020 |
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Why Shave With A Razor When You Can Use X-Rays?
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Sep 25, 2020 |
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A Guy Who Snagged Richard Nixon’s Half-Eaten Sandwich Still Has It 60 Years Later
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Sep 24, 2020 |
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Now We Have Nano-Refrigerators
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Sep 23, 2020 |
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Here Are A Few Of The Stops On The Road To Stoplights
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Sep 22, 2020 |
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A Museum Exhibit In Sweden Includes The Weirdest Drinks Of All Time
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Sep 21, 2020 |
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The Town Of Asbestos Is Looking For A Less Asbestos-ey Name
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Sep 18, 2020 |
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Put This Sensor On Your Food And See If It’s Safe To Eat
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Sep 17, 2020 |
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The Swimming Champion Who Became A Real-Life Superhero
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Sep 16, 2020 |
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The Cold Tube Saves Energy By Cooling Us, Not Our Rooms
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Sep 15, 2020 |
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Victorians Made Art Out Of Locks Of Hair
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Sep 14, 2020 |
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Taking This Pain Reliever Might Make You More Willing To Take Risks
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Sep 11, 2020 |
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A Song That Takes 639 Years To Play Just Had A Chord Change
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Sep 10, 2020 |
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The Very First Computer Bug Was An Actual Bug
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Sep 09, 2020 |
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The Game Boy That Doesn’t Need Batteries
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Sep 08, 2020 |
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The People Who Fix Typewriters Have A Job That Still Needs To Be Done
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Sep 07, 2020 |
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Humans Have A Nearly Irresistible Urge To Move To The Music
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Sep 04, 2020 |
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An Art Project Is Taking Photos Over A Thousand Years
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Sep 03, 2020 |
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Why Is It So Hard To Tell A Real Rembrandt Painting From A Copy?
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Sep 02, 2020 |
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The Glorious History Of The Trapper Keeper, The Coolest School Supply Of All Time
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Sep 01, 2020 |
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Locusts Could Teach Self-Driving Cars To Avoid Collisions
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Aug 31, 2020 |
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The U.S. Almost Had A 49th State Called Absaroka
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Aug 28, 2020 |
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Why Does A Water Tower In Kentucky Say “Florence Y’All”?
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Aug 27, 2020 |
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Brookeville, Maryland, America’s Capital For A Day
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Aug 26, 2020 |
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The Oomphalapompatronium Is An Instrument That Lives Up To Its Unusual Name
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Aug 25, 2020 |
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Every Town Has A Name, Even Nameless, Texas
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Aug 24, 2020 |
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When A Giant Safe Showed Up In His Yard, A New York Farmer Decided To Embraced The Mystery
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Aug 21, 2020 |
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When Steel Wire Was The Hip New Way To Record Sound
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Aug 20, 2020 |
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The Mullet Is Timeless, And Its Name Comes From The Beastie Boys
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Aug 19, 2020 |
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The Woman Who Got Her Lawmaker Son To Cast The Deciding Vote For Women’s Suffrage
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Aug 18, 2020 |
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A Brick House Could Also Be A Power House
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Aug 17, 2020 |
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To Protect Themselves From Lions, Cattle In Botswana Have Eyes On Their Backsides
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Aug 14, 2020 |
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That’s No Moon, It’s An Underwater “Space Station”
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Aug 13, 2020 |
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Fluorescents Just Got Even Brighter
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Aug 12, 2020 |
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After The Moon Landing Came The Astronaut Quarantine
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Aug 11, 2020 |
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A City In New Zealand Has Its Own Wizard
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Aug 10, 2020 |
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Alice Coachman Raised The Bar For Team USA
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Aug 07, 2020 |
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Your Phone Can Tell You If That’s A Dangerous Spider Or Just The Regular Kind
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Aug 06, 2020 |
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Why You Can’t Use Pepsi Points To Get A Fighter Jet
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Aug 05, 2020 |
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The Fabric With A Built-In Cooling System
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Aug 04, 2020 |
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Scientists Are Putting Little Cameras On Beetles
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Aug 03, 2020 |
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Every Six Months This Island Switches Countries
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Jul 31, 2020 |
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That Time More Than 300 Nebraskans Moved A Barn By Hand
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Jul 30, 2020 |
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A New Device Can Tell When An Avocado Will Be Ripe
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Jul 29, 2020 |
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Humans Have Their Fingerprints All Over The History Of Fingerprinting
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Jul 28, 2020 |
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A Minor League Team Once Held A Game Without Fans As A Publicity Stunt
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Jul 27, 2020 |
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Space Week: The Mars Lander Can Give Itself A Helping Hand
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Jul 24, 2020 |
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Space Week: How Space Might Save The Whales
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Jul 23, 2020 |
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Space Week: If You’re Making Cookies In Space, Be Patient
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Jul 22, 2020 |
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Space Week: How Do We Talk To Voyager 1 and 2 When They’re So Far Away?
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Jul 21, 2020 |
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Space Week: That Time Pink Floyd Jammed Out During The Moon Landing
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Jul 20, 2020 |
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The “Vantafish” Is A Fish That Absorbs Light
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Jul 17, 2020 |
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The County Fair That’s Moving To Minecraft This Year
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Jul 16, 2020 |
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Can Drones Help Make Bridges Safer?
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Jul 15, 2020 |
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The Speed Camera That Thought It Caught A Car Going 437 MPH
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Jul 14, 2020 |
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Brooklyn Still Loves The Blackout Cake
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Jul 13, 2020 |
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Humans Actually Do Perk Up Their Ears At Interesting Noises
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Jul 10, 2020 |
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Having Knee Problems? Try This Artificial Cartilage
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Jul 09, 2020 |
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In The 1980s, You Downloaded Video Games Off The Radio
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Jul 08, 2020 |
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Satchel Paige Was So Good He Could Still Get Batters Out In His Late 50s
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Jul 07, 2020 |
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Kids In Nicaragua Created Their Own Sign Language
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Jul 06, 2020 |
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What Do You Call People In Each State?
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Jul 03, 2020 |
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How The Baby-Sitters Club Became The Book Series All The 80s Kids Were Reading
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Jul 02, 2020 |
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Canada Was Almost Named “Borealia”
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Jul 01, 2020 |
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The Smart Glove That Can Translate Sign Language Into Speech
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Jun 30, 2020 |
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The San Diego Chicken Almost Moved To Atlanta
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Jun 29, 2020 |
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The Big Muddy Monster Ran Wild In Murphysboro
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Jun 26, 2020 |
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The Woman Who Rode A Bike Around The World
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Jun 25, 2020 |
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The Longest Tennis Match Ever Started 10 Years Ago Today
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Jun 24, 2020 |
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Robots And Soap Bubbles Might Help Pollinate Crops
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Jun 23, 2020 |
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After World War I, The Allies Held Their Own Olympic-Style Games
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Jun 22, 2020 |
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Five Statues And Six Pedestals That Tell The Story Of Juneteenth
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Jun 19, 2020 |
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Meet “Roger Jr.,” The Electronic Voice Made For Roger Ebert
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Jun 18, 2020 |
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Video Games Are Now Medically Necessary
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Jun 17, 2020 |
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Time To Upgrade The International Space Station’s Bathroom
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Jun 16, 2020 |
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How “Them!” Became The Greatest Giant Ant Movie Of Its Generation
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Jun 15, 2020 |
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How A Pedal-Powered Airplane Crossed The English Channel
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Jun 12, 2020 |
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Earth Might Have Been Purple Back In The Day
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Jun 11, 2020 |
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Robots Can Walk Better, Thanks To Coffee
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Jun 10, 2020 |
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The Great Pyramid’s Workforce Wasn’t As Big As We Thought
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Jun 09, 2020 |
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Solar Power, Meet Shadow Power
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Jun 08, 2020 |
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The World’s Fair Is Where America Learned To Love The Banana
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Jun 05, 2020 |
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It’s The Birthday Of The Shopping Cart
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Jun 04, 2020 |
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The Canadian Town That Built A Landing Pad For UFOs
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Jun 03, 2020 |
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Hurricanes Can Be Named After Anybody Now, Thanks To Roxcy Bolton
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Jun 02, 2020 |
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What We Thought Dinosaur Bones Were Before We Knew About Dinosaurs
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Jun 01, 2020 |
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Record Your Own Song Into A Paper Cup
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May 29, 2020 |
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James Bond’s Favorite Food Was Going To Be Scrambled Eggs
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May 28, 2020 |
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Bees Doing It For Themselves
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May 27, 2020 |
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The Letters of the English Alphabet Weren’t Added in Alphabetical Order
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May 26, 2020 |
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James Garfield Had A Lot To Say On Memorial Day
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May 25, 2020 |
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Can Robots Get Dogs To Sit?
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May 22, 2020 |
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How French Soup-Makers Helped Give Us Restaurants
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May 21, 2020 |
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The Hubble Telescope’s First Space Photo Was Kind Of Blurry
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May 20, 2020 |
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The Day The Sun Left New England
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May 19, 2020 |
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A Rock Painter In New Hampshire Really Loves A Chicken Farmer
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May 18, 2020 |
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Let’s All Ride Inside A Monowheel
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May 15, 2020 |
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Predictive Text Is Changing, Not Just Predicting, What We Write
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May 14, 2020 |
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Otters Collect Rocks And Juggle Them
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May 13, 2020 |
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Why Did The Moon Disappear 900 Years Ago?
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May 12, 2020 |
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A Guy Taking An Online Class May Have Made An Archaeological Find
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May 11, 2020 |
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The College With Its Own Doll Collection
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May 08, 2020 |
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Jigsaw Puzzles, A Geographic Teaching Tool Turned Global Phenomenon
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May 07, 2020 |
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When In Rome, Recycle Like The Ancient Romans Did
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May 06, 2020 |
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If You Miss Eating At Restaurants, Maybe These Ambient Sound Playlists Will Help
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May 05, 2020 |
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In Belgium, Eating Fries Is Patriotic
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May 04, 2020 |
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Couple Songs Are A Thing, According To Science
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May 01, 2020 |
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The Doctor Who Took Out His Own Appendix
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Apr 30, 2020 |
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A Computer Chip That Brings Back The Sense Of Touch
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Apr 29, 2020 |
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Meet The Fake Beatles
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Apr 28, 2020 |
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Lead Pollution Is Bad For Us, But Can It Walk Us Back Through History?
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Apr 27, 2020 |
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The Friendship Oak Is Over 500 Years Old And Still Going Strong
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Apr 24, 2020 |
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Now That’s A Deep Cut: Music Scholars Bring Back “Lost” Songs From 1,000 Years Ago
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Apr 23, 2020 |
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Running The Mars Rover From Home Is The Coolest Remote Work Ever
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Apr 22, 2020 |
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How To Perform Opera In American Sign Language
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Apr 21, 2020 |
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Jimmy Carter Vs. The Swamp Rabbit
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Apr 20, 2020 |
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Now That We Don’t Shake Hands, Find Out Why We Ever Started
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Apr 17, 2020 |
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Bouncy Pavement Could Be Safer Pavement
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Apr 16, 2020 |
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When Food Becomes The Artist's Muse
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Apr 15, 2020 |
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The Weirdest Words Noah Webster Ever Defined
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Apr 14, 2020 |
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The “Mutant Enzyme” That Helps Recycle Plastic
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Apr 13, 2020 |
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Robot Week: The Little Robot That Cleans Up After Your Dog
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Apr 10, 2020 |
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Robot Week: Drones Can Go Through Windows Now. That’s Good, Right?
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Apr 09, 2020 |
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Robot Week: Getting All Our Robot Ducks In A Row
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Apr 08, 2020 |
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Robot Week: Row, Row, Row Your Bot
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Apr 07, 2020 |
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Robot Week: Laser Apple Robots
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Apr 06, 2020 |
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How To Fight Fires With Drones
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Apr 03, 2020 |
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Could You Be The New Voice Of Big Tex?
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Apr 02, 2020 |
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Lego Bricks Could Last Longer Than A Millennium
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Apr 01, 2020 |
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Radio Saved The Eiffel Tower
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Mar 31, 2020 |
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Mar 30, 2020 |
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The Story Behind The Weirdest Baseball Card Of All Time
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Mar 27, 2020 |
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The Motorcycling Sisters Who Rode For The RIght To Vote
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Mar 26, 2020 |
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The Mars Lander Can Give Itself A Helping Hand
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Mar 25, 2020 |
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Can This Device “Hear” Disease?
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Mar 24, 2020 |
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Our Show About The History Of “OK” Is Just Okay
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Mar 23, 2020 |
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How Do Time Zones Work At Earth’s Poles?
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Mar 21, 2020 |
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Underwater Cleaning Robots Can Lower Cargo Ships’ Emissions
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Mar 20, 2020 |
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Does A Book With 1,250 Endings Ever Really End?
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Mar 19, 2020 |
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In Which Four Guys With The Same Name Start A Band
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Mar 18, 2020 |
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Someday Teeth May Heal Themselves (But We’ll Still Have To Brush)
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Mar 17, 2020 |
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The World Shuts Down, But “Art Doesn’t Stop”
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Mar 16, 2020 |
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There’s A Hair Freezing Contest In The Yukon
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Mar 13, 2020 |
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The Earth’s Rotation Is Slowing, Thanks To The Moon
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Mar 12, 2020 |
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Mar 11, 2020 |
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Durian Fruit May Help Charge Our Cellphones, And Without That Smell
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Mar 10, 2020 |
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How Do We Talk To Voyager 1 and 2 When They’re So Far Away?
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Mar 09, 2020 |
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Mar 06, 2020 |
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The Life And Flights Of Jerrie Cobb
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Mar 05, 2020 |
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The Moths That Absorb Sound To Hide From Bats
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Mar 04, 2020 |
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When Kentucky Had a "Meat Shower"
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Mar 03, 2020 |
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There’s Music For Cats And It’s Apparently Very Good For Them
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Mar 02, 2020 |
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Lyndon Johnson Had A Not So Great Leap Day
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Feb 28, 2020 |
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A Device That Can Make Electricity “Out Of Thin Air”
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Feb 27, 2020 |
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This Program Can Make You Invisible On A Webcam
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Feb 26, 2020 |
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We Can Put Old Mattresses To Use In Gardens
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Feb 25, 2020 |
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A Brain Implant That Can Bypass A Damaged Eye And Send Images To The Mind
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Feb 24, 2020 |
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Do Chocolates Taste Better With The Right Music?
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Feb 21, 2020 |
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“Ghost Signs” Show What Buildings Used To Be
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Feb 20, 2020 |
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When Americans Could Mail Their Children From Place To Place
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Feb 19, 2020 |
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The Robot That Sorts Your Trash From Your Recyclables
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Feb 18, 2020 |
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Gerald Ford Stayed In His Own House, Not The White House, After He Became President
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Feb 17, 2020 |
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Feb 14, 2020 |
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Feb 13, 2020 |
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Dogs Are Saving Citrus Orchards From Disease
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Feb 12, 2020 |
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Living Fabrics Make The World Greener As They Make Us Look Fancy
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Feb 11, 2020 |
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4D Printed Microneedles Could Take The Shots Out Of Getting Shots
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Feb 10, 2020 |
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Feb 07, 2020 |
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Nanoparticles Can Eat Plaque And Clear Arteries
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Feb 06, 2020 |
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Antarctic Fish Are Helping Us Clear Ice
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Feb 05, 2020 |
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Will Kryptos, The Unsolvable CIA Puzzle Sculpture, Finally Be Solved?
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Feb 04, 2020 |
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When Abe Lincoln Said Thanks But No Thanks To A Herd Of Elephants
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Feb 03, 2020 |
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Jan 31, 2020 |
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If You’re Making Cookies In Space, Be Patient
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Jan 30, 2020 |
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The Rubik’s Cube Was A Maddening Puzzle For Decades, But Not For Speedcubers
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Jan 29, 2020 |
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Jan 28, 2020 |
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When Cows Get Excited, They Tell Each Other About It
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Jan 27, 2020 |
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Scientists Can Make Diamonds Out Of Peanut Butter
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Jan 24, 2020 |
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Jan 23, 2020 |
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Boston’s Mayor Once Wanted To Clear Snow With Flamethrowers
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Jan 22, 2020 |
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Jan 21, 2020 |
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Jan 20, 2020 |
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Jan 17, 2020 |
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Jan 16, 2020 |
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Jan 15, 2020 |
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A Big-Time Librarian Kept “Goodnight Moon” Off The Shelves For 25 Years
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Jan 14, 2020 |
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When Ford Introduced The Soybean Car
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Jan 13, 2020 |
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Jan 10, 2020 |
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The Dentist Who Put On A Vaudeville Show To Distract Patients
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Jan 09, 2020 |
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What’s In A Baby Name? A Pop Song
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Jan 08, 2020 |
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Jan 07, 2020 |
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Math Says You Get More Pizza With A Large Instead Of Two Mediums
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Jan 06, 2020 |
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Recycled Milk Bottles Apparently Make Great Road Surfaces
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Jan 03, 2020 |
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Eddie Shore, The Hockey Player Who Would Do Anything To Make The Game
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Jan 02, 2020 |
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When New Year’s Meant Going To The White House To Shake Hands With The President
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Jan 01, 2020 |
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See My Vest
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Dec 31, 2019 |
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Color-Changing Chocolate Sounds Like A Willy Wonka Invention Brought To Real Life
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Dec 31, 2019 |
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The Time Samoa Didn’t Have Time For December 30th
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Dec 30, 2019 |
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Dec 27, 2019 |
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The Return of the Mystery Beer Fridge in Nebraska!
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Dec 26, 2019 |
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The Festive 200 Foot Gator In Christmas, Florida
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Dec 25, 2019 |
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The Terrifying World Of Victorian-Era Christmas Cards
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Dec 24, 2019 |
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Competitive Dreidel Is The Best New Hanukkah Tradition
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Dec 23, 2019 |
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Winnipeg, The Slurpee Capital Of Canada
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Dec 20, 2019 |
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Smart Intersections Could Help Make Self-Driving Cars Smarter
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Dec 19, 2019 |
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Museums Are Helping Color-Blind Art Lovers See The Whole Spectrum
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Dec 18, 2019 |
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They Built A Real-Life Simpsons House In Nevada
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Dec 17, 2019 |
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A Family In Michigan Has Kept A Fruitcake As An Heirloom For 141 Years
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Dec 16, 2019 |
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Is The Tuba The Most Christmas-y Instrument Ever?
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Dec 13, 2019 |
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A More Eco-Friendly Way To De-Ice Roads Sounds Really Grape
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Dec 12, 2019 |
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Sometimes Towns Just Have To Build Statues To Invasive Pests
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Dec 11, 2019 |
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What Can Help Save Coral Reefs? The Sounds Of Coral Reefs
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Dec 10, 2019 |
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Who Wants To Be The Garbage Collector Of Space?
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Dec 09, 2019 |
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Without The Washington Post We Wouldn’t Have Teddy Bears
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Dec 06, 2019 |
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The “World’s Smartest Chess Board” Is The Closest Thing To Wizard Chess We Have
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Dec 05, 2019 |
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These Flexible High-Tech Casts Are Standing Up To Itchy Plaster
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Dec 04, 2019 |
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How Oregon Trail Inspired A Generation To Learn About Dysentery
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Dec 03, 2019 |
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When A Store Held A Drawing For A Baby
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Dec 02, 2019 |
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How Thanksgiving Leftovers Led To TV Dinners
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Nov 29, 2019 |
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We’re Grateful For Off The Wall Thanksgiving Sides
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Nov 28, 2019 |
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Literally, It’s A Metal Guitar
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Nov 27, 2019 |
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To Save Water, Sometimes LESS Is More
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Nov 26, 2019 |
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A Guy In Michigan Drives A Banana Car
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Nov 25, 2019 |
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Meet The New, Foldable Coffee Cup
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Nov 22, 2019 |
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Pigs Are On A Mission To Save Hazelnuts
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Nov 21, 2019 |
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Apollo 12 Crashed Its Lunar Module On Purpose
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Nov 20, 2019 |
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In Honor Of Rocky And Bullwinkle, We Have Stories About Moose And Squirrel
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Nov 19, 2019 |
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What Time Was Like Before Time Zones
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Nov 18, 2019 |
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Finally, Cameras Can Truly See The Sea
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Nov 15, 2019 |
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That Time There Was A Laugh Track On “The Twilight Zone”
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Nov 14, 2019 |
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Stella The Dog Uses A Soundboard
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Nov 13, 2019 |
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The Mountain That's Higher Than The Highest Mountain
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Nov 12, 2019 |
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How To Turn A World War II Parachute Into A Wedding Dress
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Nov 11, 2019 |
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The Singing Maple Syrup Bottle With Patti Page’s Voice
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Nov 08, 2019 |
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Nov 07, 2019 |
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Take It To The (Gold) Hoop
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Nov 06, 2019 |
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Some Art Looks Great Even When Accidentally Hung Upside Down
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Nov 05, 2019 |
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The Board Game Clue Is 70 Years Old, It’s Been A Rough Seven Decades For Mr. Boddy
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Nov 04, 2019 |
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Abraham Lincoln, Wedding Planner
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Nov 01, 2019 |
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Harry Houdini, If You’re Out There, Let Us Know
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Oct 31, 2019 |
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Quit Hating On Candy Corn, At Least Until You Hear Its Story
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Oct 30, 2019 |
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In This Minnesota Town, It’s Always Halloween
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Oct 29, 2019 |
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When You’re Tracking Migrating Eagles, Always Get Extra Roaming Data
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Oct 28, 2019 |
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The Microwave Oven Was Sort Of An Accident
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Oct 25, 2019 |
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The Little Robot That Cleans Up After Your Dog
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Oct 24, 2019 |
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How Old Is The Word “Word”?
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Oct 23, 2019 |
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The North Carolina Bridge That Decapitates Cars Is Finally Being Raised
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Oct 22, 2019 |
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How Space Might Save The Whales
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Oct 21, 2019 |
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Keeping Up With The World's Fastest Ant
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Oct 18, 2019 |
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When Performance Art Meets Brain Scans
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Oct 17, 2019 |
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There’s A Giant Ouija Board In Salem, Massachusetts
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Oct 16, 2019 |
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When Entertainment Is Literally A Train Wreck
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Oct 15, 2019 |
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Let’s Cover Some Unusual Measurements In A Jiffy
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Oct 14, 2019 |
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The Mayor Can’t Be Here, But Would You Like A Selfie With His Cardboard Cutout?
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Oct 11, 2019 |
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This High-Tech Sleeve Could Save A Pitcher’s Arm
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Oct 10, 2019 |
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How The Tree That Owns Itself Came To Own Itself
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Oct 09, 2019 |
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What It Sounds Like When Bats Bicker
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Oct 08, 2019 |
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Here’s A Shirt That Can Feel Sound
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Oct 07, 2019 |
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Kiss Is Playing A Concert For Sharks, One Of The Few Things They Haven’t Already Done
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Oct 04, 2019 |
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The Trash Can Isn’t Going To Take Itself Out. Oh, Actually Now It Is
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Oct 03, 2019 |
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The 7-10 Split Meets Big Data
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Oct 02, 2019 |
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You Can’t Beat Furniture Grown On The Farm
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Oct 01, 2019 |
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Can We Get Mac and Cheese To Mars?
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Sep 30, 2019 |
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In Casey, Illinois, Small Town Life Has Never Been Bigger
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Sep 27, 2019 |
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A Pole-Sitting Champ Finds Out It’s Lonely At The Top
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Sep 26, 2019 |
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I See What You Did There, Brain Implant
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Sep 25, 2019 |
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Turn Those Old Straws Into New Albums
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Sep 24, 2019 |
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Our Long History Of Crashing Stuff Into The Moon
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Sep 23, 2019 |
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Bah Gawd It’s A Smart Cane
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Sep 20, 2019 |
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It’s The Birthday Of Fawlty Towers, Don’t Mention The War!
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Sep 19, 2019 |
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The Race To Keep Day-Glo Paints Glo-ing
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Sep 18, 2019 |
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We Can Make Orange Juice Cups From Oranges
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Sep 17, 2019 |
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We’re Unleashing Drones On Cows And It’s For Their Health
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Sep 16, 2019 |
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Scooby-Doo And Those Meddling Kids Started Solving Groovy Mysteries 50 Years Ago
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Sep 13, 2019 |
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How About We Put Shade Plants Under Solar Panels?
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Sep 12, 2019 |
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How To Analyze DNA After DNA Starts Breaking Down
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Sep 11, 2019 |
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Massachusetts Once Had Like Six John Kennedys On The Same Ballot
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Sep 10, 2019 |
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Whatever’s In Loch Ness Isn’t What’s In The Famous Loch Ness Monster Photo
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Sep 09, 2019 |
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The Kansas Town Where Even Popeye Got His Spinach
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Sep 06, 2019 |
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I’ll Take Alex Trebek Facts For $500, Alex
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Sep 05, 2019 |
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Look, It’s The History Of Halley’s Comet
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Sep 04, 2019 |
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Even Takeout Can Be Greener, Thanks To Reusable To-Go Containers
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Sep 03, 2019 |
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It’s All Pumpkin Spice From Here On Out
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Sep 02, 2019 |
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If You’re On Vacation, Eat Something Large And Weird
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Aug 30, 2019 |
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The Giant Potato Airbnb And Other Wild Places To Stay
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Aug 29, 2019 |
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The Train Station With No Entrances Or Exits
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Aug 28, 2019 |
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How To See The Lower 48 States In One Road Trip
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Aug 27, 2019 |
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A Bike Trip Around The World With A Cat
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Aug 26, 2019 |
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If I Could Save Time In A Time Capsule
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Aug 23, 2019 |
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Elizabeth Freeman Makes Herself A Free Woman
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Aug 22, 2019 |
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Ketchup Packets Last Somewhere Between Nine Months And Forever
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Aug 21, 2019 |
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How To Find Where You Are In Just Three Words
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Aug 20, 2019 |
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The Future Of Health Care Is Alpacas
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Aug 19, 2019 |
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The Ups and Downs Of Rollercoaster History
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Aug 16, 2019 |
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Keep Playing, Richie Havens, The Rest Of Woodstock Is Coming
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Aug 15, 2019 |
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The Alabama Bridge That Roosters Built
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Aug 14, 2019 |
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Checking In To The House Plant Hotel
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Aug 13, 2019 |
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The Best Defense Against Cougars Is Metallica
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Aug 12, 2019 |
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Elvis Almost Threw Down At A Wisconsin Gas Station
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Aug 09, 2019 |
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All Hail Iowa’s Butter Cow
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Aug 08, 2019 |
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The Festival That’s Mostly People Throwing Tomatoes At Each Other
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Aug 07, 2019 |
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Neat Freaks, Be Glad You Didn’t Live In A Medieval Castle
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Aug 06, 2019 |
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Dear Family, Camp Is The Worst, That’s The Entire Letter
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Aug 05, 2019 |
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A Garbage Cafe Is Much Better Than Its Name Suggests
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Aug 02, 2019 |
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Save The Washing Machine Museum!
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Aug 01, 2019 |
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Depression-Detecting AI Is Much More Than A Virtual Mood Ring
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Jul 31, 2019 |
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Here's Why Nellie Bly Is Getting Her Own Monument
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Jul 30, 2019 |
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Where We Got Olympic Medals From Before Recycled Cell Phones
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Jul 29, 2019 |
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Meet Owney, The Legendary Postal Dog
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Jul 26, 2019 |
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The Most Powerful Cat May Be The One At 10 Downing Street
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Jul 25, 2019 |
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Drones Can Go Through Windows Now. That’s Good, Right?
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Jul 24, 2019 |
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She Ran A Marathon While Pushing A Triple Stroller Full Of Kids
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Jul 23, 2019 |
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Point No Point And Other Amazing, Actual Places
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Jul 22, 2019 |
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That Time Pink Floyd Jammed Out During The Moon Landing
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Jul 19, 2019 |
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You Know Mack Robinson’s Brother, Now Get To Know Mack Robinson
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Jul 18, 2019 |
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Vegetable Displays Are The New Black
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Jul 17, 2019 |
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Airports Aren’t Just For The Journey, They’re The Destination
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Jul 16, 2019 |
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Yours 'Til Niagara Falls
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Jul 15, 2019 |
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Drinking Coffee Out Of Coffee Cups Made From Coffee
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Jul 12, 2019 |
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Rhinelander, Wisconsin Is America’s Hodag Headquarters
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Jul 11, 2019 |
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When The Flyover Flies Over The Wrong Spot
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Jul 10, 2019 |
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Getting All Our Robot Ducks In A Row
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Jul 09, 2019 |
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Rise Of The Tortilla
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Jul 08, 2019 |
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We Have A Lot Of UFO Historical Markers Now
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Jul 05, 2019 |
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What Was July 4th Like Before The Fourth Of July?
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Jul 04, 2019 |
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I Wear My Smart Glasses At Night
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Jul 03, 2019 |
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Lawn Chair Larry Takes To The Sky
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Jul 02, 2019 |
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Please Consider The Environment Before Printing And Reprinting On This Paper
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Jul 01, 2019 |
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Medical Glue. Strong Stuff.
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Jun 28, 2019 |
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Anyone Need Some Sponge Candy While I'm In Buffalo?
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Jun 27, 2019 |
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The Babe Is Here, Who’s Coming In Second?
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Jun 26, 2019 |
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The World’s Greatest Robotic Pig Food Truck
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Jun 25, 2019 |
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Selfies On Mars
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Jun 24, 2019 |
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The Fastest Lawn Mower In The World, And How We Got To It
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Jun 21, 2019 |
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Turtle-Friendly Fishing Nets Are Lit
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Jun 20, 2019 |
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Riding a Horse Down Fillmore Street For Juneteenth
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Jun 19, 2019 |
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Do You Feel Like Peter Frampton’s Talk Box Does?
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Jun 18, 2019 |
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How To Move A 12 Ton Sphinx
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Jun 17, 2019 |
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For Dads, The Story Of A World Record Burp
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Jun 14, 2019 |
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That Time Cat Stevens Wrote A Dog Song
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Jun 13, 2019 |
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Row, Row, Row Your Bot
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Jun 12, 2019 |
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Sensors Report Leftovers Are Still Fresh
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Jun 11, 2019 |
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Cloudy With A Chance Of Ladybugs
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Jun 10, 2019 |
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The Great Banana Split Rivalry
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Jun 07, 2019 |
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To Get Plastic Out Of The Ocean, Put It On A Plane
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Jun 06, 2019 |
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From Storms Chasing Us, To Us Chasing Storms
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Jun 05, 2019 |
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The Minor Leagues Got Majorly Weird
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Jun 04, 2019 |
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And Then One Day You Find 10,000 Years Have Got Behind You
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Jun 03, 2019 |
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I Review The Body Electric
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May 31, 2019 |
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The Only Headless Chicken With His Own Festival
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May 30, 2019 |
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After-After-After-shocks
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May 29, 2019 |
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What Is The Euphemism For “I Dropped A Frog”?
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May 28, 2019 |
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The Many One True Birthplaces Of Memorial Day
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May 27, 2019 |
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The Jumpsuit Century
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May 24, 2019 |
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Dance Breaks and Deathfests
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May 23, 2019 |
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If You Want To Stop Burglary, Then Study Burglars
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May 22, 2019 |
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Excuse Me, My Suitcase Would Like To Get By
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May 21, 2019 |
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Is It A Tortoise, Or Home Improvement Project?
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May 20, 2019 |
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Sure, I’m Petty, Just Not Paypal-Petty
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May 17, 2019 |
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Venus: If You Lived Here, You’d Have Melted By Now
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May 16, 2019 |
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Ooh, That Smell: A Corpse Flower Blooms In Chicago
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May 15, 2019 |
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Do Tacos Dream Of Electric Tongues?
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May 14, 2019 |
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Australia’s Biggest Little Spelling Error
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May 13, 2019 |
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Treat Your Mother Subreddit Right
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May 10, 2019 |
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Dear Ralph Baer, Thanks, Signed, All The Video Gamers
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May 09, 2019 |
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The Spy Whale Who Loved Me
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May 08, 2019 |
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The Biggest Binge-Watch Ever
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May 07, 2019 |
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Change The (English) Channel
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May 06, 2019 |
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Here In My Hollywood Car Exhibit, I Feel Safest Of All
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May 03, 2019 |
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2 Dope Pirate Queens
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May 02, 2019 |
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The Ballad of Heckboy
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May 01, 2019 |
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Apr 30, 2019 |
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De-ice De-ice, Baby
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Apr 29, 2019 |
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Ship To Shark Communication
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Apr 26, 2019 |
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I Love Drone Lamp
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Apr 25, 2019 |
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Take Off Your Password and Jacket
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Apr 24, 2019 |
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The Many Moods Of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Apr 23, 2019 |
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Roombas! In! Spaaaaaaace!
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Apr 22, 2019 |
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What A Time To Be A Hologram
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Apr 19, 2019 |
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Break up with your pension, I’m bored
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Apr 18, 2019 |
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I'm Going Out For A Scent
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Apr 17, 2019 |
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The Long Lost Heads of Notre Dame
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Apr 16, 2019 |
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Bess and Taxes
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Apr 15, 2019 |
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You Call This Archaeology?
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Apr 12, 2019 |
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This One Goes Out To All My Peeps
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Apr 11, 2019 |
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May The Force Sisters Be With You
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Apr 10, 2019 |
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All I've Got Is A Phonautograph, But It's Not Enough
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Apr 09, 2019 |
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Come On Feel The Airplane Bathroom Noise
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Apr 08, 2019 |
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Tweens vs. Potholes
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Apr 05, 2019 |
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A Big Transplantiversary
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Apr 04, 2019 |
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Laser Apple Robots
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Apr 03, 2019 |
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I Wish They All Could Be California Plates
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Apr 02, 2019 |
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The Pizza and Pipe Organ Connection
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Apr 01, 2019 |
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The Goat Mayor Of Fair Haven, Vermont
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Mar 29, 2019 |
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Baseball's First, Fightingest Umpire
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Mar 28, 2019 |
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Drunk Online Shoppers Of The World Unite
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Mar 27, 2019 |
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A Salute To Great Eight Year Olds
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Mar 26, 2019 |
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We Got (The Cheese)
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Mar 25, 2019 |
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Mar 22, 2019 |
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Mar 21, 2019 |