Twice a year this floating library delivers thousands of books to the remote islands of Stockholm's archipelago
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These circular ruins at Smeerenburg are all that remain of a 17th-century Arctic whaling outpost
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For forty years, crashing trains was one of America’s favorite pastimes
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This traditional Brazilian raw milk cheese is caught in the crosshairs of a battle over government regulation
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When the Māori first settled New Zealand, they hunted flightless, 500-pound birds
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Researchers in Argentina found a bee's nest made entirely from plastic
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Rediscovering the blazingly bright colors of ancient sculptures
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The remarkable story of a woman who preserved over thirty years of TV history
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The return of the pie company that gave the Frisbee its name
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Why Alexandre Dumas, author of The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers, considered his magnum opus to be a 1,150-page cookbook
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During WWII, Bletchley Park was home to codebreaking and tea shenanigans
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Roaches taste like blue cheese, and other bugsgiving revelations [Warning: graphic bug images]
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In northern Japan, orchardists harness the power of the sun to sear images of good fortune—and the occasional face of a celebrity—onto apples
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How the English failed to stamp out the Scots language
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The history of passport photos, from ‘anything goes’ to today’s mugshots
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How two thieves stole thousands of prints from university libraries
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Revisiting a 1958 map of space mysteries
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Dragons made of citrus: Every year, the town of Menton, France, turns lemons and oranges into giant sculptures depicting windmills, dragons, and more
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The home museum displaying over 10,000 beer steins
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How deaf children in Nicaragua created a new language
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For a brief, glorious moment, camera-wielding pigeons spied from above
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How pie-throwing became a comedy standard
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Where the ‘no ending a sentence with a preposition’ rule comes from
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The rebellious French village making wine banned by the EU
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The fabulous food hats of Maor Zabar. Now you can wear hot dogs, pizza, and sushi on your head.
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