'Gone With the Wind': The explosive lost scenes. A never-revealed war over slavery's depiction. Rhett Butler's suicidal intentions. A rediscovered script reveals what didn't make final cut.
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Tiramisu is the best way to eat your coffee! To start our Classics of Coffee series on it, we wanted to uncover more about its origins, where it came from, and how it became so popular worldwide.
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What is a fun or interesting fact about where you live?
Partly posting this because I love those little nuggets of local lore, and partly so I can share this local fact that I just discovered. My city's cathedral has this amazing double-bowl copper...
Partly posting this because I love those little nuggets of local lore, and partly so I can share this local fact that I just discovered.
My city's cathedral has this amazing double-bowl copper font (different angle here) which I had assumed was ancient - the cathedral is almost 1000 years old - but it turns out that until 1994 these bowls were being used at a local chocolate factory to make caramel to go inside Rolos and was gifted to the church when the factory closed.
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Major League Baseball is making a handful of radical rule changes designed to make games faster and more action-packed
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The history of Super Mario Bros 3 100% world records
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Why Nancy is scrapping its magically bonkers monorail-bus-trams
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The forgotten portable NES
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The sauce that survived Italy's war on pasta
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The internet’s richest fitness resource is a site from 1999. ExRx.net is little changed since the days of GeoCities yet beneath its bare-bones interface is a deep physiological compendium.
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‘The Norse Myths That Shape the Way We Think’ by Carolyne Larrington – from Tolkien to Marvel, the huge influence of Norse myths on modern culture
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Scientists have identified the oldest-known inscription referencing the Norse god Odin on part of a gold disc unearthed in western Denmark
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Why river channels shift and meander, and what tools engineers use to manage the process (Part 1)
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The stories and saviors behind heirloom seeds
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How two Jewish kids in 1930s Cleveland altered the course of American pop culture (and the birth of Superman)
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The search for the saddest punt in the world
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Join the Counterforce: Thomas Pynchon’s postmodern epic Gravity’s Rainbow at fifty
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The Reemergent 1977 H1N1 Strain and the Gain-of-Function Debate (2015)
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‘M*A*S*H’ said goodbye forty years ago, with a finale for the ages
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Party patellas: The knee makeup fad of the '20s and '60s
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Barrett .50 Cal.
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Computer dating 1960s style (1966)
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Hayes command set history: The tech that dialed in a million modems
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The Birdcage and La Cage aux Folles: An epic stage to screen journey
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Worried that technology is ‘breaking your brain’? Fears about attention spans and focus are as old as writing itself.
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The unfathomable scale of the Brussels Palace of Justice
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How the inventor of the troll doll missed out on a fortune
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Douglas Adams on the 'Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy' game (1985)
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Donald MacGillavry, the genius hoax
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How a shipping error 100 years ago launched the $30 billion chicken industry
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The last mustard maker in Dijon
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The most important year in the history of science fiction is 1973, because that’s when science fiction ended
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Charles Silverstein, who helped declassify homosexuality as mental illness, dies at 87
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In 1952, a landslide caused a tsunami that killed a Greenlandic man – some researchers think he might have been an early victim of anthropogenic warming
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The forgotten story of Modulex – Lego's lost cousin
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Lost and found: Codebreakers decipher 50+ letters of Mary, Queen of Scots
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The National Museum of Denmark is paying tribute not to professional archaeologists, but to amateurs with metal detectors
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Depression has often been blamed on low levels of serotonin in the brain. That answer is insufficient, but alternatives are coming into view and changing our understanding of the disease.
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Grammy Album Of The Year winners through the years
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How MTV destroyed their network
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Manchester City striker Erling Haaland eyes Dixie Dean's 95-year-old record of sixty league goals
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The first ordinary woman in English literature. The life and legacy of the Wife of Bath.
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‘Oh my God, this is big!’ How The Cardigans went stratospheric with Lovefool.
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The murky, salty mystery of Worcestershire sauce - The peppery sauce may be wildly popular, but its ingredient list and origin story are shrouded in secrecy
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The case of the medieval castle and the opportunity cost of warfare
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Project Code Rush - The Beginnings of Netscape (2000)
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Twelve years before the Nintendo Wii took over living rooms, Sports Sciences released Batter-Up, a motion-controlled baseball bat for the Sega Genesis, Super Nintendo, and personal computers
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Why did men stop wearing hats?
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Megacities: Reality or fiction? Architecture in sci-fi.
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Pickup trucks: From workhorse to joyride
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Andy’s Pop Life - Revisiting Steve Schapiro’s historic 1965 visit to Andy Warhol’s Factory and his travels across the US with a cadre of Superstars
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