List of unusual units of measurement
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Bellevue, WA police responded to a call from a US Air Force museum that said a man had offered to donate a Cold War-era missile stored in his late neighbor’s garage
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Norwegian family finds Viking-era relics while searching for a lost gold earring in their garden
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Kotka, in southeastern Finland, removed the country's last publicly displayed statue of Russian revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin
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How ancient soldiers used sound to frighten and confuse their enemies
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How men found love in 1800s America was so awful it’s funny
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When hundreds of vampire-hunting children invaded a Scottish cemetery — and helped spur a comic book ban
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How ‘The Monster with 21 Faces’ terrorized Japan during the harrowing Glico Morinaga candy incident
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The Gävle goat
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Louis Armstrong asked Richard Nixon to carry his bags through customs. The bags had marijuana in them.
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Postcards from St Kilda arrive ten years later after washing up in Norway – archaeologist Ian McHardy built a waterproof replica of the mail boats a decade ago
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The Kentucky miner who scammed Americans by claiming he was Hitler and plotting a ‘revolt’ with ‘spaceships’
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The cost of free doughnuts: Seventy years of regret
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