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NASA reopens Apollo mission control room that once landed men on Moon ~space Article 1491 words 11 votes
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The oral history of Four Loko in New York ~food drinks history.oral Article 3571 words, published Aug 13 2018 7 votes
Was Apollo 11 a beginning or an end? Fifty years after man walked on the Moon, mankind is still stranded on Earth. That’s not the way it was supposed to be. ~space Article 2634 words 14 votes
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