The man who drank Cholera and launched the yogurt craze. Ilya Metchnikoff laid the foundation for modern probiotics.
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500 year-old Italian pizza recipe
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After thirty years, Street Fighter 2's mythical, unwinnable "10-0 matchup" has finally been proven to exist in the SNES beta version
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Werner's Nomenclature of Colours
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Star Citizen
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Battle of Drøbak Sound, 1940 - "Either I will be decorated or court martialed. Fire!"
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Flight of the Navigator | VFXcool
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Nearly a decade after becoming an advice animal, "10 guy" Connor Sinclair reveals his identity and gives full account of his image
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The secret history of Angostura Bitters
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Fifty years years of text games: LambdaMOO (1990)
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How humanity has changed the food it eats
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A Finnish drink with a heroic past – in the 16th century, effervescent sima was more desired than beer and has since become the go-to beverage for ushering in spring
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Announcing Headstamp Publishing's new Kickstarter book | Pistols of the Warlords: Chinese domestic handguns, 1911 - 1949
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New Zealand: Fight for the Wild documentary series
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I found an article that said "The microwave was invented to heat hamsters humanely in 1950s experiments." And I thought, no it wasn't. ...was it?
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What is vintage base ball?
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Mutiny on the sex raft: How a 70s science project descended into violent chaos
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The sixty-year-old scientific screwup that helped Covid kill
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The sixty-year-old scientific screwup that helped Covid kill
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The 1962 flight of Army Rangers that vanished into thin air
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Charles I's travelling library
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The pad thai conspiracy
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The legendary Commando raid at St. Nazaire | The greatest raid of all time
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Twenty-five years ago, Star Trek: Voyager tackled one of its most infamous transporter questions
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The Sopranos: Pine Barrens oral history
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I am getting sick of writing these pieces to respond to people like Rick Santorum
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Getting inked up? Thank Thomas Edison.
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Madhouse at the End of the Earth: A brief history of people losing their minds in Antarctica
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Have you ever tried to sell a diamond?
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The plan to kill Osama bin Laden—from the spycraft to the assault to its bizarre political backdrop—as told by the people in the room
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A brief history of 'Unsolved Mysteries'
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RollerCoaster Tycoon | Noclip Greatest Hits
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Unlocking history through automated virtual unfolding of sealed documents imaged by X-ray microtomography
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When Israel banned Nazi-inspired ‘Stalag’ porn
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Flamethrower
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Khusugtun - Chinggis Khaan (2020)
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Have a flick through Isaac Newton's notebook
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Why do notes have names? (A short history of solfeggio)
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The Speculatores: Spies of the Roman Army | Units of History
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Why measuring the impact of Lend-Lease is so difficult
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How 1995's Macintosh NY Music Fest 'livestreamed' twenty-five years ahead of its time
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BBFC discussion of Taxi Zum Klo
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Only two and a half billion tyrannosaurus rex inhabited the planet in total, researchers say
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Warez Wars (1997)
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The last time a vaccine saved America
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The unparalleled genius of John von Neumann
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Feeding a Roman Legion | Posca & Laridum
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How not to deal with murder in space
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Pacific Series part 1/5: Why attacking Pearl Harbor was the least bad option Japan had
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Meet some of the last papyrus makers in Egypt keeping a 5,000-year-old craft alive | Still Standing
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