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Think of how much has changed in the world since the year 578. The Roman Empire had fallen in the West about a century earlier. The Prophet Muhammad was…
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In October 1869, two workers digging a well behind a barn on a farm in Cardiff, in upstate New York, struck something hard. As they cleared away the earth,…
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Here is a fact that sounds like it must be a myth, but isn't: the island of Manhattan, home today to one of the greatest cities on Earth, was…
Most people never really learned how to store food; they just absorbed habits from whoever raised them and never questioned them. But a lot of common storage habits actively work…
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Early in the morning of June 30, 1908, over the basin of the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in central Siberia, the sky tore open. Witnesses dozens of miles away described…
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There is a strange fact about air travel that most people never stop to consider: it used to be faster. For a 27-year stretch that ended in 2003, you…