This Is What the Early Days of Digital Were Like
(via Great Big Story) Dial-up, floppy disks, Listservs. If you don’t know what any of these terms mean, you weren’t
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Month: August 2019
Kung Fu Nuns
(via Great Big Story) This nunnery has an empowering claim to fame—it’s the only one in Nepal where the nuns
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Top 10 Real-Life Inspirations For Famous Cartoon Characters
(via Listverse) Whether they’re bumbling, irascible, crotchety, irrepressible, sensual, obstreperous, or bombastic, we tend to love the larger-than-life cartoon characters
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Found: Hidden Sketches Underneath a da Vinci Painting
(via Atlas Obscura) Glimpses of a master revising, changing, and editing.
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Saving the Oldest Store in NYC’s Chinatown
(via Great Big Story) Mei Lum never envisioned herself running a retail business in New York City’s Chinatown. But when
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How the Wiffle Ball Came to Be
(via Smithsonian) Patented in 1957, the lightweight ball saved players’ arms and more than a few windows.
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10 Space Myths We Believe Because Of Movies
(via Listverse) Space has been a part of popular science fiction for a long time now. Space movies give us
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12 Facts About Woodstock For Its 50th Anniversary
(via Mental Floss) From August 15-18, 1969, an estimated 400,000 spectators attended Woodstock, a music event held in Bethel, New
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The Incredible Barringer Meteor Crater of Arizona
(via Amusing Planet) The Barringer Crater was named in honor of Daniel Barringer, who was first to suggest that it
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Top 10 Hidden Features Of Everyday Things
(via Listverse) When it comes to things we use in our day-to-day lives, we’re largely aware of what they’re supposed
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14 Fun Facts About Giant Pandas
(via Smithsonian) Is Mother Mei Xiang pregnant? Giant Panda house is closed to give the much-loved bear some peace and
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The Actress Who Left the Stage to Become a Civil War Spy
(via Smithsonian) In a photograph no bigger than a playing card, a woman dressed in military costume cradles a sword,
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