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NASA Announces Brightest Lunar Explosion Ever Recorded
A meteoroid struck the surface of the moon recently, causing an explosion that was visible on Earth without the aid of a telescope, NASA reported Friday. But don't be alarmed if you didn't see it; it only lasted about a second.
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Ancient discovery set to rewrite Australian history
Copper coins and a 70-year-old map with an ‘X’ marked on it may lead to a discovery that could change everything we've been led to believe about Australia's discovery.
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Not Quite of this World: New Paintings by Jorge Santos
At the 101/exhibit in Miami is an exhibition featuring a dynamic painter from Angola. His name is Jorge Santos and for most of his life he has been a full time artist creating surreal scenery and groups of people not quite from this reality. Born in 1959, Santos was raised in the then Portuguese colony of Angola. After his family escaped the political turmoil that ensued after Angola became independent, he headed over to America where he settled in 1982.
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Mid-19th century Irish potato famine pest identified
Scientists have used plant samples collected in the mid-19th Century to identify the pathogen that caused the Irish potato famine. A plant pest that causes potato blight spread to Ireland in 1845 triggering a famine that killed one million people.
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A revisit to Yahoo's 'Internet Life' Magazine. It was amazing.
A look back at a time when Yahoo was the most cutting edge company on the internet.
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Kibble Me This: The History of Dog Food
The following is an article from Uncle John's Unstoppable Bathroom Reader.(Image credit: Flickr user Ed Schipul)What would Porter the Wonder Dog have eaten 200 years ago, before there was Alpo or Dog Chow? Here's the history of the multi-billion-dollar dog food industry.
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The Poker Boom: When We Held Kings
The oral history of the 2003 World Series of Poker, in which an amateur named Moneymaker turned $39 into $2.5 million and the poker boom was born.
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The real origins of Tumblr
Months before Yahoo’s $1.1 billion acquisition turned him into an overnight media sensation, David Karp recounted the creation of Tumblr at the Austin Convention Center during the South by Southwest Interactive conference in March.
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How a Ghost Army of American artists helped defeat Hitler
The CIA Iran rescue operation featured in Argo isn't the first time the U.S. has used the arts to foil a bitter enemy. This week, PBS premiered a documentary on the U.S. Army's 23rd Headquarters Special Troops, nicknamed the Ghost Army, a group of 1,100 handpicked soldiers in World War II who played an unlikely, but pivotal, role in the Allied victory over Nazi Germany.
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World’s Hottest Peppers and the steaming science behind them
Chiliheads crave the heat that hurts so good, but nothing compares to the legendary superhot that spices life in remote India.
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How JFK secretly admired Hitler: Former President’s praise for the Nazis
President Kennedy's travelogues and letters (right) chronicling his wanderings through Germany before the Second World War, when Adolf Hitler was in power, have been unearthed and show him generally in favour of the movement that was to plunge the world into the greatest war in history.
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The rise and fall of the Roman Empire in a GIF
Keep an eye out on the dates to fully understand it.
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American's Life Under the KGB's Watchful Eye in 1980s Russia
Last week, Russia expelled an American diplomat, accusing him of being a spy for the CIA. Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said that U.S. Embassy Third Secretary Ryan Fogle had been caught red-handed with disguises, spy equipment, and wads of cash, trying to recruit a Russian agent.
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Public toilet from the Roman Empire
Imagine dropping a deuce while 10 others are sitting beside and all around you.
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Two Tornadoes 14 Years Apart, and a Man Who Saw Them Both
Oklahoma native Dustin Ellison has twice sifted through the wreckage of the same 7-11.
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10 Historical Titans With Surprising Tattoos
Regretting that Taz-too on your ankle? Don’t! You’re walking in the footsteps of greatness.
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12 Early Uses of Electricity That Proves History Was F#@%ed
When mankind first figured out how this mysterious thing called electricity worked, everyone went a little crazy for a while there.
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How World War I Helped Popularize the Bra
Corsets dominated the undergarments of wealthier women in the Western world for centuries, until WWI. So how did the war help popularize the bra?
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Apple 1 from 1976 sells for $650,000
An original Apple 1 computer from 1976 - one of only six still in working order - has sold at auction in Germany for more than 500,000 euros ($650,000).
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Photoshop this: Steve Ballmer's surprise introductions throughout history
A new photoshop series imagined weekly, or whenever I find weird inspiration.
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