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The small pocket above the right front pocket on your jeans has been there since May 20, 1873 — when Levi Strauss & Co. and tailor Jacob Davis received…
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The de Havilland Comet was the world's first commercial jet airliner — a 1949 British marvel that promised faster, higher, more comfortable air travel. Then in early 1954, two…
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When Soviet authorities evacuated 100,000 people from the area around Chernobyl in 1986, a small number of mostly elderly residents simply walked back to their homes. They've been living…
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In 1977, an Ohio radio telescope detected a 72-second burst from deep space so strong and so anomalous that the astronomer who found it scrawled "Wow!" on the…
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In February 1959, nine experienced hikers died on a remote mountain pass in the northern Urals. The investigation was closed in three months and the files classified. After 60…
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The light bulb wasn't really Edison's. The telephone wasn't really Bell's. In 2002, the U.S. Congress officially corrected the record on one of them. The full list is longer…