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The 2,000 Foot Road That Nobody Built

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Bette Midler Didn't Just Sing About New York. She Helped Make It Greener.

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How Storks Got Into the Baby Business

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How Science Fiction Gave Us the Rocket Countdown

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Every Mammal Makes Its Own Vitamin C. Except You.

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LITERATURE

The Surprisingly Strange Story Behind the Oxford English Dictionary

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LITERATURE

Why Do We "Jump on the Bandwagon?

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LITERATURE

No Geese Were Chased in the Original Wild Good Chase

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LITERATURE

Before There Was Gossip, There Was a Little Bird

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HISTORY & INNOVATIONS

Who Invented Paper Money

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All Cedar Wooden Playhouse

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HISTORY & INNOVATIONS

The Snowmen of 1511 Were Not for Children

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FOOD & DRINK

Why is an Eggplant called an Eggplant

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People

She Married a Great Composer. Then Things Got Complicated.

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FOOD & DRINK

Why Do We Call It "Hair of the Dog"?

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PEOPLE

A 1677 Marriage Helped Create One of Britain’s Great Fortunes

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SCIENCE & NATURE

The Hidden Superpower of Brass

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SCIENCE & NATURE

Why Toddlers Have More Brain Connections Than Adults

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SCIENCE & NATURE

Your Eyes Have a Night Shift

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SCIENCE & NATURE

Why Time Seems to Fly or Slow Down

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SCIENCE & NATURE

Spooky Action From Space

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HISTORY & INNOVATIONS

NASA Helped Put Space Technology in Your House

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SCIENCE & NATURE

Why are People Ticklish?

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HISTORY & INNOVATIONS

One of Britain's Royal Crowns Contains a Gold-Plated Ping-Pong Ball

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FOOD & DRINK

Why Popcorn Explodes

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SCIENCE & NATURE

Why Dogs Need The Groove Above Their Lip, and Human's Don't

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

The Surprising Origin of "Baby, It's Cold Outside"

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HISTORY & INNOVATIONS

Why Millions of Chinese Men Once Wore a Single Long Braid

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

The Beatles Wrote “Dear Prudence” About Mia Farrow’s Sister

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Famous Descendants of the Mayflower

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HISTORY & INNOVATIONS

Thoreau Lived at Walden, But His Mother Still Did the Laundry

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SCIENCE & NATURE

Some Cells in Your Body May Come From Another Person

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SCIENCE & NATURE

Your Water is Billions of Years Older Than You Think

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SCIENCE & NATURE

Why You Forget Why You Walked Into A Room

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SCIENCE & NATURE

Every Living Thing Shares A Single Ancestor

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CURIOUS FACTS

How Retailers Quietly Change Behavior.

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SCIENCE & NATURE

Can What You Eat Change How Your Genes Behave?

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HISTORY & INNOVATIONS

Murder, Mystery, and Easter?

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SCIENCE & NATURE

The Tiny Muscles You Never Knew You Had

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Hidden Messages in Famous Art

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