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US nuclear missile program set the launch code to "00000000" during the cold war
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How Jim Heimann got crazy for California architecture
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Is private equity actually worth it?
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Shock of the old: the amazing, infuriating history of the electric car – in pictures
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100 years later, long-lost silent film found in Omaha auction
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The oldest unsolved problem in math. Do odd perfect numbers exist?
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The Houthis are very, very, pleased
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Denmark has pledged to put up more statues of women, with the country's culture minister saying the capital has “more statues of mythical beasts and horses”
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"The biggest myth in speedrunning history": A cosmic ray didn't help a Mario 64 speedrunner
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They're always guilty ... or are they?
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World War II ‘rumor clinics’ helped America battle wild gossip
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Salvage of the century: The lost WWII gold of HMS Edinburgh
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Join me on the path to Twilightenment
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Henrik Larsson: ‘I have 106 caps for Sweden but I see myself as foreign’
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The history of blindfolded Super Mario 64
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The road to 'The Road to El Dorado' - The making of an animated cult classic
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Packages seized by the Royal Navy from a Faroese cargo ship bound for Denmark during the Napoleonic Wars opened – previously hidden away in the National Archives
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The food of war and isolation - International influences on Russian sausage cuisine
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The decimal point is 150 years older than previously thought, medieval manuscript reveals
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Selling subversion
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Weird Wings: The M-21, an A-12 (SR-71 Blackbird predecessor) modified to launch a drone for recon missions over China in the 60s
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The revolutionary spirit of Soul Train
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Hurricane — Bob Dylan’s howl of protest still resonates today. The hard-hitting 1975 ballad tells the story of a black boxer framed and jailed for murder.
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'Copa 71' - the Lost Lionesses and the forgotten 1971 women's World Cup
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Wasabi could help preserve ancient Egyptian papyrus artefacts
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Indexing the information age - Over a weekend in 1995, a small group gathered in Ohio to unleash the power of the internet by making it navigable
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The United States of barbecue, mapsplained
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The battle for Central Park
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How football made the working class in the UK
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How Finland survived a 1,000,000+ Soviet invasion (1939-1940)
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Years before Stonewall, a chef published the first gay cookbook
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Why joining a club is good for democracy
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Why a tire company gives out food’s most famous award
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A decades-long forgery scheme ensnared Canada’s most famous Indigenous artist, a rock musician turned sleuth and several top museums. Here’s how investigators unraveled the incredible scam.
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How beavers can fully revitalise a farm
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The Silk Road - Into far lands
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Tour of Vienna's Natural History Museum in Austria. It houses one of the oldest natural history collections in the world, dating back to the 1700's.
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An archive of Wikipedia from Thursday, December 20, 2001
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How design collective Hipgnosis redefined the album cover: from AC/DC to Pink Floyd
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The birth of a (pseudo) currency
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Western exclusive Nintendo games (first party)
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‘Mean Girls,’ twenty years later: The villain’s triumph
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The US pepper that was nearly lost
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American Bar Association calls for US courts to find a different word than master, citing history and negative associations
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The Firehouse Five and the Cinderella surprise
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How Sébastien Loeb did the unthinkable in Sweden – Rally Sweden was first conquered by a non-Nordic driver in 2004
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Interview: Kenta Cho (Japanese indie game developer)
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What would America look like if it lost WWIII?
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The Roman Colosseum: What it was like to attend the games
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