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People used to race cockroaches for fun..
Check out the Early 20th century ad for a cockroach racing kit (complete with roaches) sold by the International Mutoscope Reel Company, makers of arcade machines and dime museums. "Holds the crowd… Gets the money."
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Cracking the Voynich Code
The quixotic quest to read meaning in the patterns of a bizarre manuscript that has bedeviled scholars for years.
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10 Visions of the Los Angeles That Could Have Been
Los Angeles isn't generally famous for its innovative urban design. But there have been many attempts to transform the city into a modern metropolis through visionary architecture and transportation projects.
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The Secret History of the Vietnam War
If you thought you knew all there was to know about the Vietnam War, you were wrong. For example: ever heard of the "Mere Gook Rule," a code of conduct the US military came up with in order to make it easier for soldiers to murder Vietnamese civilians without feeling too bad about it? ("It's only a mere gook you're killing!")
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Mysterious structure found at bottom of ancient lake
A mysterious, circular structure, with a diameter greater than the length of a Boeing 747 jet, has been discovered submerged about 30 feet (9 meters) underneath the Sea of Galilee in Israel. Scientists first made the discovery by accident in 2003 using sonar to survey the bottom of the lake but published their findings only recently.
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How I Met My Dead Parents
You think you know your mother and father, who they are, and what they mean. Then they're gone and the photos and letters they leave behind tell an entirely different story.
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The Greatest Dead American Car Brands From The 1950s
America has had a rough week. The tragedies in Massachusetts and Texas are still firmly on everyone’s minds, despite the jubilation last night, and it can begin to weigh on a country. With all that’s been going on, why don’t we take a brief respite and work up a bit of nostalgia?
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Why America Forgot A Horrific Terrorist Attack On Wall Street In 1920
The day Wall Street exploded.
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Sex with Other Human Species Might Have Been Secret of Homo Sapiens’s Success
It is hard to imagine today, but for most of humankind's evolutionary history, multiple humanlike species shared the earth. As recently as 40,000 years ago, Homo sapiens lived alongside several kindred forms, including the Neandertals and tiny Homo floresiensis.
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Van Gogh 'did not kill himself'
Vincent van Gogh did not kill himself, the authors of new biography Van Gogh: The Life have claimed.
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That time Polish partisans stole a Nazi V2 rocket
It was the dawn of the ballistic missile era, and with the invention of the V2 rocket, the Germans had beaten everyone to the punch. Eager to get their hands on one of these horrific new devices, the Allies embarked on an audacious plan to steal one. Here’s the fascinating story of how they did it.
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Science book from 1884
Wow racism much?
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Why It Took Decades of Blaming Parents Before We Banned Lead Paint
As with soda, demanding that all mechanisms of harm be completely understood before regulations are put in place is frightening.
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A time capsule is opened after 100 years
The First Lutheran Church of Oklahoma City dug up and opened its Century Chest, a time capsule that was buried under the church 100 years ago.
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Digging Up Windsor's Earliest Queen: Photos
See photos of the excavation of a 4,400-year-old female skeleton that may be the first Windsor queen.
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50 Years of Inspired Insanity From Lamborghini
The first Lamborghini was not a low-slung, overpowered sports car that looked like sex on wheels. It was a tractor, and a damn fine one at that.
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The man who stopped Hitler's A-bomb
Seventy years ago, a small team of Norwegians was sent from Britain to carry out one of the most daring and important undercover operations of World War II - the aim was to prevent Adolf Hitler building an atomic bomb.
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Data storage from 1979 compared to today.
34 short years of data storage
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LEGO: The original patent for a ‘Toy Building Brick’ from 1961
The original LEGO patent for a 'Toy Building Brick' was filed by Godtfried Kirk Christiansen on July 28th, 1958, and registered October 24th, 1961, as Patent No. 3,005,282.
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The curious tale of the stolen books
London's Lambeth Palace, home to the Archbishop of Canterbury, also has a leading historic book collection. The palace's library was the scene of a major crime that stayed undiscovered for decades.
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