Top-secret atomic bunker has opened to the public in Denmark – built to withstand a nuclear attack, it's now an astonishing subterranean museum
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The World Wide Web became available to the broader public thirty years ago
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Borges and $: The parable of the literary master and the coin
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The history of the boycott: How one Englishman’s name has ended up in every dictionary since 1888
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Welcome to America’s most elite girls boarding school. Let the hazing begin.
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Of Sun Ray laptops, MIPS and getting root on them
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Gender-affirming care has a long history in the US
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How Somali food in the diaspora holds the history of forced migration
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The insane engineering of the M1 Abrams
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Iron boots: The slimming, trimming, shaping equipment that the fitness industry forgot about
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The Witch Trials of JK Rowling
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George Takei: Love and justice beyond the stars
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The Museum of Failure’s latest exhibition is an epic portrait of failures big and small—from the Ford Edsel, to CNN+
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The end of computer magazines in America
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The world's greatest fighter jet: The F-15 Eagle
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Czechia's incredible 1960s supervillain-lair hotel (and why its architect got banned by the regime)
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Outstanding new composers and genre-hopping experiments – why Iceland has become a classical music powerhouse
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A taste of Brazil: How guaraná soda became a national icon
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The myth of the alpha wolf
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The long history of the figurative 'literally'—and eight great writers who used it
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was Walt Disney’s biggest box office gamble
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A beginner's guide to Soviet animated cinema
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Why Sweden punches above its weight in music
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Why did Denmark gain land after WW1 despite being neutral?
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A gallery of Sony product design going back decades
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The origins of precision
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The history of ecommerce: 1979 to 2023
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The olympic pictograms are miniature design masterpieces
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'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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