15 Fascinating Facts About Ancient Egypt
(via Listverse) There’s much more to ancient Egypt than just pyramids – These facts should serve as a good introduction
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Month: September 2019
15 Astonishing Facts About Bats
(via Mental Floss) Roughly one in five mammal species is a bat. You may have heard of the famous vampire
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Lost Renaissance Masterpiece Worth $6 Million Found Hanging Above Woman’s Hotplate
(via Smithsonian) Experts say the panel painting was created by Florentine artist Cimabue around 1280
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The First Personality Test Was Developed During World War I
(via Smithsonian) Long before online quizzes and Myers-Briggs, Robert Woodworth’s “Psychoneurotic Inventory” tried to assess recruits’ susceptibility to shell shock.
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10 Origins of Popular Cartoon Characters
(via Listverse) History has always fascinated me, and I love to find out about ancestry and family trees. Leading on
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7 Illustrative Facts About Pictionary
(via Mental Floss) Ever since it was introduced in 1985, Pictionary has been a party game that requires artistic ambition
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The Milky Way: Back in the Day, Milk Cans Delivered Dairy From Cow to Consumer
(via Collectors Weekly) Lots of people collect milk bottles, even more collect milk glass, and among the legions who collect
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Bronze Age Baby Bottles Reveal How Some Ancient Infants Were Fed
(via Smithsonian) Drinking vessels found in Bronze and Iron Age children’s graves contained proteins from animal milk.
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How Two Oz-Obsessed Midwesterners Made Judy Garland’s Birthplace a Museum
(via Atlas Obscura) On a cold and snowy March day in 1938, Judy Garland took a train from Chicago to
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8 Historical Conspiracy Theories
(via Mental Floss) For some, the historical record just won’t do. For centuries, conspiracy theories have attempted to draw back
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How a Newspaper Article Saved Thousands of Black Gospel Records From Obscurity
(via Atlas Obscura) A professor in Texas collects and digitizes rare recordings from across the country.
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The most complex word in English only has three letters
(via Considerable) Three letters. Over 600 meanings.
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