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History
Britain Once Let an Abandoned Hill Elect Two Members of Parliament
April 30, 2026
Food & Drink
The Inventor of the Pringles Can Asked to Be Buried in One
April 30, 2026
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Sports
A $5 Thrift-Store Blazer Turned Out to Be an Augusta Green Jacket
April 28, 2026
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Animals
The Highest-Flying Bird Ever Recorded Was a Vulture
April 27, 2026
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History
Coal Miners Built Tiny Oxygen Chambers to Revive Their Canaries
April 27, 2026
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History
Sweden Hunted Phantom Submarines Until Scientists Realized They Were Herring
April 25, 2026
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History
Spain Had a Detailed Plan to Conquer China With Jesuits, Samurai, and Bribery
April 24, 2026
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Health & Body
Thailand Broke an HIV Drug Standoff With a Clever License Strategy
April 23, 2026
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Technology
An ISP Got ADSL Working Over a Wet String
April 22, 2026
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Business & Money
Real-World Numbers Start With 1 More Than You Think
April 21, 2026
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Health & Body
Rat Poison Became a Lifesaving Blood Thinner
April 20, 2026
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History
Victorian Women Swallowed Arsenic for Pale Skin
April 19, 2026
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History
Harriet Quimby's Channel Flight Was Buried by the Titanic
April 17, 2026
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History
Apollo 10 Cursed So Much NASA Cleaned Up Apollo 11
April 17, 2026
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Arts & Entertainment
Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata Was Named for a Violinist Who Never Played It
April 16, 2026
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History
The Worldβs First Byline Belongs to a Woman
April 14, 2026
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Travel & Places
One Arizona Drive Can Flip Your Clock Seven Times
April 13, 2026
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History
The French Drain Was Named After a Man, Not a Country
April 12, 2026
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History
In 1834, the Word βScientistβ Was First Used for a Woman
April 11, 2026
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Crime & Law
Some Kids Scammed Farrell's Ice Cream Club With Fake Names. Years Later, the U.S. Government Tried to Draft Them.
April 10, 2026
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Science & Nature
NASA Once Considered Screening Astronauts by Their Farts
April 9, 2026
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History
The Oracle Was Right. Croesus Just Bet on the Wrong Empire.
April 9, 2026
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History
He Faked His Own Death to See If Anyone Cared. His Wife Didn't Cry.
April 7, 2026
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Health & Body
Your Brain Can Go Blind and Refuse to Admit It
April 6, 2026
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Animals
Chimpanzees Drink the Equivalent of Two Cocktails a Day
April 6, 2026
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Food & Drink
You Can Deep-Fry Food in Salt. Billions of People Already Do.
April 4, 2026
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Arts & Entertainment
A Stolen Master Forced Green Day to Start Over. They Made American Idiot.
April 3, 2026
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History
A French Soldier Was Executed for Refusing to Wear a Dead Man's Pants
April 2, 2026
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People & Society
An OB/GYN Let His Wife Die to Save Everyone Around Him. Years Later, He Won an Oscar.
April 1, 2026
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History
How "Yoo-Hoo" Became the Most Embarrassing Word in U.S. Army History
March 31, 2026
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Animals
Every Military Dog Outranks the Soldier Holding Its Leash
March 30, 2026
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Crime & Law
A 71-Year-Old Florida Man Used a Weather Balloon to Make His Suicide Look Like Murder
March 29, 2026
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Health & Body
Measles Deletes Your Immunity to Every Disease You've Already Survived
March 28, 2026
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Technology
A Mystery Signal Shut Down Every Garage Door in Ottawa for Ten Days
March 27, 2026
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People & Society
A Colorado Town Threw a Festival for the Frozen Corpse in Their Neighbor's Shed
March 26, 2026
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Technology
A Thumbs-Up Emoji Cost a Canadian Farmer $82,000
March 25, 2026
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Technology
A Blind Seven-Year-Old Whistled His Way Into the Phone System and Helped Inspire Apple
March 24, 2026
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History
An 18-Year-Old Accidentally Invented Purple
March 23, 2026
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Science & Nature
A Giant Space Cloud in the Milky Way Tastes Like Raspberry Rum
March 22, 2026
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People & Society
The Aswang in Psychological Warfare: A Fascinating Intersection of Mythology and Military Tactics
November 28, 2023
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Arts & Entertainment
The Car Coordinator of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Managed to Locate the Exact 1959 Ford Driven by the Manson Family. However, a Replica Was Used Instead.
January 4, 2023
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Arts & Entertainment
Mel Gibson Originally Intended for The Passion of the Christ to Have No Subtitles Despite the Film Being Entirely in Latin.
January 4, 2023
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History
During the Looting of the Chinese Imperial Palace at the End of the Second Opium War, British Soldiers Took a Pekingese Dog to Gift to Queen Victoria. They Named It Looty.
January 3, 2023
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History
The Public Fountains in Paris Flow with Free, Clean, Sparkling Water. Residents Fill Bottles to Take Home Instead of Buying Bottled Water from Stores.
January 3, 2023
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Health & Body
Sperm was Thought to Move by Wiggling Their Tails Side-to-Side, Just Like Eels. But Recent Research Show That They Roll as They Move Forward Like a Spinning Top.
January 3, 2023
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Business & Money
Ticketmaster was Caught Recruiting Resellers to Scalp Their Own Tickets
January 3, 2023
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Science & Nature
Planets are Round because of Gravity. A Planet's Gravity Pulls Equally from All Sides. Gravity Pulls from the Center to the Edges Like the Spokes of a Bicycle Wheel.
January 3, 2023
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Arts & Entertainment
Michael Jackson's Thriller Album was the Best-Selling Album in the US for 2 Years Straight. It Sold 32 Million Copies Globally and was Certified Platinum 34 Times.
January 2, 2023
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Health & Body
There is Scientific Evidence That Women Who Experience More Heartburn During Pregnancy Have Babies With More Hair at Birth.
January 2, 2023
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Technology
Airplane Toilets are Coated with Teflon. Your Poop Does Not Stick When Vacuumed Down the Toilet Because of This, and Minimal Water is Used.
January 2, 2023
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