Five Places Where You Can Still See Remnants of the Great Chicago Fire
(via Smithsonian) Though the city was completely rebuilt within two years, you can still see evidence of the fire that destroyed
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Month: September 2019
10 of the Toughest Math Problems Ever Solved
(via Popular Mechanics) They’re guaranteed to make your head spin.
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5 Weird American Cemetery Legends
(via Mental Floss) These strange, spooky cemetery tales of vampires, ghosts, and bloody headstones will keep you up at night.
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China’s Architectural Wonder Has Been Standing for 700 Years
(via Great Big Story) The Guanyin Pavilion was built to last. And last. And last. This temple has sat atop
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16 Soothing Facts About Muzak
(via Mental Floss) Whether you know it as background music, elevator music, or, as Ted Nugent once called it, an
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Paleontologists Are Trying to Understand Why the Fossil Record Is Mostly Males
(via Atlas Obscura) One theory is that reckless young bison and mammoths got into more trouble.
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Crazy Interiors Where People Actually Live
(via Listverse) What better way is there to express your creativity and fun side than in your interior decorating? Below
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The 30 Highest-Grossing Actors in Hollywood
(via Mental Floss) Earlier this summer, Avengers: Endgame surpassed James Cameron’s Avatar to become the highest-grossing movie of all-time worldwide.
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Why Are American Homes So Big?
(via The Atlantic) The U.S. is in the top tier of house sizes internationally—and it’s not just because of McMansions.
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Coolest cars in television history
(via Grunge) Sometimes the only difference between a great TV show and a bad TV show is that one of
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Britain’s Last Remaining World War One Memorial Tank
(via Amusing Planet) After the end of the First World War, many British towns received gifts from the National War
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A Sift Through the Remnants of Iowa’s Forgotten Fashion Scene
(via Atlas Obscura) For decades, the Mississippi River town of Muscatine was the pearl-button capital of the world.
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