How chain restaurants use smells to entice us
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When tomatoes were blamed for witchcraft and werewolves
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Slovenia's beautiful beehives turn apiaries into art
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The hidden, magnificent history of chop suey
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How the 18th-century gay bar survived and thrived in a deadly environment
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Six badass librarians who changed history
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SubTropolis – The "world's largest underground business complex," a 55,000,000-square-foot city underneath Missouri
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Years before Stonewall, a chef published the first gay cookbook
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The kingdom of books – In 1977, an eccentric book lover formed a micronation for book lovers
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Uncovering the forgotten female astronomers of Yerkes Observatory
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The hidden worlds of Monopoly – From Atlantic City to high fashion to Karl Marx, the most recognizable board game has had serious cultural impact
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Early on-demand music streaming required lots of nickels
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Ordering off a 5,000-year-old Mesopotamian menu
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The woman preserving the endangered cuisine of Indian Jews. Esther David traveled from the spice port of Cochin to the mountains of Mizoram to record this culinary culture.
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The sauce that survived Italy's war on pasta
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The stories and saviors behind heirloom seeds
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These masks brought shame to gossips, drunks, and narcissists
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The last mustard maker in Dijon
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The mystery of the world’s oldest billboard
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Meet the Appalachian apple hunter who rescued 1,000 ‘lost’ varieties
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Leftover Star Wars sets
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How pearl meat became Australia’s newest luxury ingredient - Once humble divers’ fare, the meat of the pearl oyster now commands up to $200 per kilo
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Letters from the loneliest post office in the world
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The hidden histories of To-Go container art
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How do you care for one of the world’s oldest aquarium fish?
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The hidden, magnificent history of chop suey - Discrimination and mistranslation have long obscured the dish’s true origins
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Early on-demand music streaming required lots of nickels - In the Pacific Northwest 70-plus years ago, a telephone-based jukebox connected callers to their favorite tunes
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When the Western world ran on guano
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The doomed mouse utopia that inspired the ‘Rats of NIMH’. Dr. John Bumpass Calhoun spent the ’60s and ’70s playing god to thousands of rodents.
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Scientists want your help stalking billions of Cicadas
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Why does Iceland's Fagradalsfjall volcano look like a school science project – spatter cone and runny lava give this eruption its classic look
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No huskies, no problem: These unexpected sled dogs have serious pull
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An old Norse 'godhouse' has been discovered in Norway – site reflects how the rise of Christianity to the south affected the worship of the Norse pantheon
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Before the Easy-Bake Oven, toy stoves were beautiful and deadly
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The scandalous decision to pickle Admiral Horatio Nelson in brandy
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The mesmerizing geometry of Malaysia’s most complex cakes
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These physicists finally figured out why microwaved grapes ignite
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What an underground nuclear test actually looks like
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The Hongerwinter: How famine under the Nazis revealed the cause of celiac disease
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How to help librarians and archivists from your living room
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Iowa's 'Denmark on the Prairie' creates hygge away from home – the tiny town has imported a 19th-century windmill and starred in two Danish TV shows
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Why scientists fall for precariously balanced rocks
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In France, a bloody WWI battlefield has become a wildlife refuge
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The dark side of the angel's share
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How a newspaper article saved thousands of Black gospel records from obscurity
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A decade later, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill has left an abyssal wasteland
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This latte artist forms foam into flocks of birds
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On Restaurant Day in Helsinki anyone can open an eatery anywhere
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Crab rangoon: How a fusion of at least four cuisines created a beloved and misunderstood dish
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Scientists from the University of Borås are exploring the possibility of converting old pieces of glutinous waste into yarn
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