June 2019 - Page 3 of 5 - Curious Links

10 Fake Artworks And Artifacts Exhibited In Museums

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(via Listverse) Art forgery is a real menace museums have to contend with. Every now and then, a museum ends

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(via Popular Mechanics) The mighty UC-5 went from terror of the deep to an amusement for park goers.

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(via Mental Floss) You don’t have to love ‘em, but there’s no denying that we’d all be a lot worse

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(Via Great Big Story) You’re not alone if you do a double-take when you see one of Arinze Stanley’s drawings—his

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(via Listverse) It’s an oft-repeated notion: Everything on Earth has already been explored and how awesome it would have been

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(via Mental Floss) Cartoons, comics, and newspaper comic strips might seem like an unusual source of new words and phrases,

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(via Mental Floss) Over 41 issues, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin was published as a serial in the

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(via Atlas Obscura) When it does, researchers rush in to study the age-old stumps.

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(via Listverse) Most of us wonder about things for which we never truly get answers. This is not because explanations

(via Atlas Obscura) Vincenzo Lunardi’s first flight over London featured two caged pigeons, an airsick cat, and a lot of solo

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(via The Atlantic) Fluff. The sticky sweet marshmallow creme was invented exactly one hundred years ago in Somerville, Massachusetts—at the

(via Atlas Obscura) In September 1962, something fell from aloft in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, cracking the asphalt on North 8th Street