The world depends on this government warehouse's collection of strange Standard Reference Materials. They're not cheap.
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Mormonism and the rise and fall of mutual aid
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How do seatbelts work?
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How Jell-O lost its spot as America's favorite dessert
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
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Why you wouldn’t want to fly the first Soviet jetliner
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105 years ago, a savvy candy company created the most divisive holiday dish ever
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The REAL reason ships go missing in the Bermuda Triangle!!!
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Making text adventure games (1985)
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How speedrunners conquered the World's Hardest Game
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Medieval musical instruments
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10,000 brains in a basement – the dark and mysterious origins of Denmark's psychiatric brain collection
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Oldest known sentence written in first alphabet discovered – on a head-lice comb
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Almost famous: The untold story of an artist’s rock-poster roots
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A curated collection of HCI demo videos produced during the golden age from 1983-2002
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The man who tried to fake an element
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In the 1980s an unlikely collaboration between environmental activists and the pop group A-ha inspired Norway's electric car revolution
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Chinese poetry of the detention barracks at Angel Island
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Mondrian painting has been hanging upside down for seventy-five years
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The crypto story: Where it came from, what it all means, and why it still matters
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Caravaggio was the other Michelangelo of the Renaissance
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The strange history of Deanna Troi's accent
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A Twitter thread on Alfred Loos, one of the founders of modern architecture, and why modern housing looks so plain
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A brief history of Multi-User Dungeons
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Swedish maritime archaeologists have discovered the long-lost sister ship of the 17th-century warship Vasa
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Military operations in East Ukraine (1919-1942)
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Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice, & 150 years of gay vampires
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This 1970s tank simulator drives through a tiny world
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‘The Book of Disquiet’ is the weirdest autobiography ever
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The nurse who introduced gloves to the operating room
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RetroAhoy: X-COM
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Known as "torfbæir", these ingeniously designed Icelandic homes helped settle one of Europe's least-hospitable environments
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How Brian Eno created Ambient 1: Music for Airports
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Svante Pääbo deserves his accolade – palaeogenetics is an expanding field that tells us who we are
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How shipping containers took over the world (then broke it)
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A historian's perspective on the Battle of Helms Deep
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Burlesque in crisis: Hanging on by a g-string
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Swedish researcher Svante Pääbo has won this year's Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his research into how human beings evolved
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SEA 48 - 45 DET - That's Scorigami!!
@Scorigami: SEA 48 - 45 DETFinalThat's Scorigami!! It's the 1073rd unique final score in NFL history.
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Why did we wait so long for wind power? Part II
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A history of ARM, part 1: Building the first chip
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How one of America’s last piano manufacturers stays alive
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Forgotten archive of medieval books and manuscripts discovered in Romanian church
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As Häxan turns 100, this utterly chilling silent film deserves more celebration – given it set the template for The Blair Witch Project and many more horrors besides
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Pemmican: History's power bar
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Did Neanderthals make art?
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Jerry cans: The true secret weapon of WWII
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Don’t feel like a dummy for loving the Dummies guides: The history of the Dummies guides
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The day the US TV industry died
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The straightening of Chandler Bing
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