Tattooing in the American Civil War was a hedge against anonymous death
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Ordering off a 5,000-year-old Mesopotamian menu
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These masks brought shame to gossips, drunks, and narcissists
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The mystery of the world’s oldest billboard
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Letters from the loneliest post office in the world
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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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The scandalous decision to pickle Admiral Horatio Nelson in brandy
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The Hongerwinter: How famine under the Nazis revealed the cause of celiac disease
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These circular ruins at Smeerenburg are all that remain of a 17th-century Arctic whaling outpost
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When the Māori first settled New Zealand, they hunted flightless, 500-pound birds
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How the English failed to stamp out the Scots language
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How two thieves stole thousands of prints from university libraries
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