Inside the US Army’s warehouse full of Nazi art
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The history of Super Mario Bros. 2 world records
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One town, four elements – Ytterby in Sweden is famous for being the single richest source of elemental discoveries in the world
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The butteriest popcorn, movie theater style (but using real butter)
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Culture kept in its coffin: How the Netflix model buries our media history
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How to revive a dead language: Although it was the language of sacred texts and ritual, modern Hebrew wasn’t spoken in conversation till the late nineteenth century
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The history of Jews, Chinese food, and Christmas, explained by a rabbi
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The secret history of the conversation chair
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The story of 1987's Acorn Archimedes, the first production ARM/RISC-based personal computer
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What did the past smell like?
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The father of modern warfare – the military reforms of Gustavus Adolphus' changed the face of European warfare
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An elixir from the French Alps, frozen in time
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How did the Qing dynasty collapse? The Xinhai revolution explained
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The folkloric roots of the QAnon conspiracy
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MLB is finally recognizing the Negro Leagues as the Major Leagues they always were
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The fraying of the US Global Currency Reserve System
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How the Kingston coal ash spill unearthed a nuclear nightmare
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Tomorrow’s World: Office of the Future (1969)
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That Downfall scene explained: What is Adolf Hitler freaking out about?
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The rise and fall of Ambrosia Software
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Inside the surprisingly big business of UK packaged ice
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Strange object recaptured by Earth, and currently in Earth orbit, is 1966 Centaur upper stage from Surveyor 2 spacecraft
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Unwrapping Aztec Tamales | The Tamale Wars
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A look back at the storied history of action RPG Torchlight with lead developer Max Schaefer and composer Matt Uelmen
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Furniture giant IKEA has announced it will stop printing its traditional catalogue, one of the world's biggest annual publications, after seventy years
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Marine archaeologists catch a break on the bottom of the Baltic Sea: A 75-year-old Enigma machine
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Ethics in strategy gaming, part 2: Colonization
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Best articles of 2020
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Black Death - A historically accurate cover of "Hollaback Girl" by Gwen Stefani (2010)
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Asteroid impact: What are our chances?
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The code that controls your money
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Extraordinary number of arrows dating from the Stone Age to the medieval period have melted out of a single ice patch in Norway in recent years
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Bob Newhart and the masked doctor who cured the gays
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From Xenogears to Xenoblade: The history of Monolith Soft
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"Brilliant" plans to win WW2: How France planned to win the war against Nazi Germany
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How Dutch plant breeders built our brussels sprouts boom
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Dan Marino never won a Super Bowl. Here's what left him empty-handed.
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Modern classics summarized: All Quiet on the Western Front
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Standardizing <select> and beyond: the past, present and future of native HTML form controls
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The 1991 Thanksgiving Day prank in NASA's Mission Control that went horribly wrong
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WTF happened in 1971?
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Radical – Why the nineties was actually the best decade for comics
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'Someone's typing...': The history behind text messaging's most dreadful feature
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Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla and the unfortunate implications
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The secrets of Monkey Island’s source code
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Sega VR revived: emulating an unreleased Genesis accessory with the help of Nuclear Rush's source code
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The Internet Archive is now emulating Flash animations, games and toys in their software collection
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Why we say "OK"
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Screws - The early years
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Pumpion Pie from 1670
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