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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Gaytopia: Fed up with the horrific discrimination and violence against his community, Don Jackson had a plan to turn a remote spot in Northern California into the world's first gay-majority county
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Meet the Appalachian apple hunter who rescued 1,000 ‘lost’ varieties
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US pilot shot down four Soviet MiGs in thirty minutes – and kept it a secret for fifty years
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A lecturer showed a painting of the prophet Muhammad. She lost her job.
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World's oldest runestone found in Norway – 2,000-year-old inscription is among the earliest examples of words recorded in writing
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The secret gay love affair behind Alfred Hitchcock's Rope
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Al Capone's soup kitchen
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Forty years of PCMag: An illustrated guide
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Crippling Hitler's navy – the battle that knocked out 50% of the Kriegsmarine's destroyers in Norway
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How Edvard Munch's friend Thomas Olsen hid the masterpiece 'Dance on the Beach' in a remote barn in the Norwegian forest to foil the Nazis
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Native Americans—and their genes—traveled back to Siberia, new genomes reveal
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Disney Channel's theme: A history mystery
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Sabaton awarded Enlightener of the Year Award 2022 by The Swedish Skeptics Association – presented to those that go above and beyond in order to educate people
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Would you fall for it? General Motors' propaganda video from the 1950s.
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‘Self-healing’ Roman concrete could aid modern construction, study suggests
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The curious case of Nebraska Man
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The complete history of the A Button Challenge
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A crucial particle physics computer program risks obsolescence
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Meet the man who invented microtransactions years before Oblivion’s horse armour
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ABBA's massive 1979 hit Chiquitita has never earned the Swedish supergroup a penny – Björn Ulvaeus gave the copyright to Unicef
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Demetrious "Mighty Mouse" Johnson: The man the UFC erased
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Brewing Mesopotamian beer - 4,000 years old
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Apollo guidance computer explained: Everything you need to know
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Making the stinkiest chemical known to man
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Was 1920s Hollywood really as decadent and debauched as it looks in ‘Babylon’?
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Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One | The biggest stunt in cinema history
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Dutch prime minister apologizes for the Netherlands’ role in the slave trade
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The history of Lego Star Wars world records
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Denmark to try out first grand coalition government since 1970s – been without a permanent government for forty-two days, beating the previous record
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The story of Tetris
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The real nature of Thomas Edison’s genius
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Atari revives unreleased arcade game too damn hard for 1982 players
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