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World War II German bomber raised from sea
A World War II German bomber, likely the last of its kind, has been raised from the bottom of the English Channel and will be restored for display in a British museum.
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5 Huge Mistakes Nobody Noticed for a Shockingly Long Time
We're not sure what exactly the following stories say about mankind, other than that none of us really know what we're doing.
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10 Everyday Words With Unexpected Origins
Etymology, or the study of the origin of words, is dry, dusty stuff that will give you allergies if you play with it too long.
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The Trajectory of Television: A big history of the small screen
From surrogate storyteller to high-def streaming infotainment, TV has come a long way.
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19 Amazing Time Capsules Still Underground (And What's Inside Them)
I love time capsules. But more often than not, they're extremely boring. Most American time capsules from the 19th and 20th centuries contain a Bible, some stamps, a few coins and plenty of newspapers.
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7 Craziest Intelligence Leaks in U.S. History
From Watergate to Climategate, here are some of the country's most famous leak cases.
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Inside one of history's most elaborate heists, and the race to unravel it.
The robbers had a helicopter, explosives, and inside information on a $150 million cash repository. But the police were on to them—sort of.
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Here are some of the most expensive pieces of paper in the world
Postage stamps have some of the hallmarks of any great investment craze. They're tangible assets for those concerned about global economic stability. They're rare. And the Chinese government has been promoting its citizens' interest in them. By all available indicators, the value of stamps is surging accordingly.
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Woman sentenced to death walks free
Paula Cooper was just 16 years old when she became the youngest person on death row in the United States.That was in 1986. On Monday, after 27 years behind bars, Cooper walked out of Indiana's Rockville Correctional Facility a free woman.
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7 Bizarre Early Versions of Famous Characters
The reality is that lots of your favorite franchises had to suffer through ill-conceived false starts before rounding into shape, at which point their creators hoped you would forget all about the early efforts.
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Did Minnesota man command Nazi unit?
The founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center wants the Justice Department to investigate whether a Minnesota man was a Nazi war criminal.
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Shigeru Miyamoto's 'Bad' Game
Shigeru Miyamoto, Nintendo's lead creator of Mario, Zelda and Donkey Kong, was recently showing me Pikmin 3, but there was something he'd just said that I had to follow up on. "I have to ask, Mr. Miyamoto, you said you have made a bad game. What was the bad game you made?"
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Why the Tomato Was Feared in Europe for More Than 200 Years
How the fruit got a bad rap from the beginning.
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10 Deadliest World Events In Human History
Throughout human history, there have been many world events that have seen a multitude of deaths and widespread destruction.
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There Never Was Such a Thing as a Red Phone in the White House
Fifty years ago, still spooked by the events of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the U.S. and Soviet Union built a hotline. But it wasn’t a phone.
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World's first flying bicycle?
A pair of flight enthusiasts, John Foden, 37, and Yannick Read, 42, have devised a two-wheeled bike -- christened the XploreAir Paravelo -- that transforms into an aircraft. The British inventors say it is the world's first fully functional flying bicycle.
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Money, Murder & The Mona Lisa: The Most Creative Heists of All-Time
Infographic about crime.
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There Could Be ‘Hundreds’ of Nazi War Criminals Still Living in the United States
When 94-year-old Minnesotan Michael Karkoc was revealed to be a Nazi war criminal last Friday — thanks to the ill-advised tell-all memoir he published — his friends and neighbors were, understandably, shocked. An actual OG Nazi! In Minnesota! In the year 2013! It's almost incomprehensible.
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Century of Massacres: Remembering Bremen, the First-Ever School Shooting
One hundred years ago, a gunman entered a school in Bremen, Germany, and killed five girls in the first-ever mass school shooting. The similarities with the dozens of horrifying attacks that have come since are haunting.
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Archaeologists find 'Chactun,' a long lost Mayan city in eastern Mexico
A team of archaeologists have found a long lost Mayan city in the rainforests of eastern Mexico, and they're hoping the discovery will help them figure out what led to the ancient civilization's rise and fall centuries ago.
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