October 2019 - Page 3 of 6

The Library of Congress Has an Incredible Collection of Early Baseball Cards

(via Atlas Obscura) There’s a lot of history in these collectibles.

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(via Mental Floss) Soon, small superheroes and ghosts and all sorts of other strange creatures will be canvassing your neighborhood

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(via Great Big Story) It takes Dan Bull, a gardener at Powis Castle and Garden, eight weeks to trim all

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(via Great Big Story) Red bottle with a green cap and a rooster on the front—plus five languages on the

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(via Popular Mechanics) Rivers are the key to a salty sea.

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(via Mental Floss) In 1909, the English novelist and writer James Redding Ware published a dictionary of 19th-century slang and

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(via Atlas Obscura) Its beloved catalogue had a good run.

(via Thrillist) Children of the ’80s and ’90s might be inclined to think that Fruit Roll-Ups, the tearable, chewy snacks

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(via Mental Floss) Tales of death and destruction seem to follow certain famous jewels. There are stories of ancient warlords

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(via Smithsonian) A sad fate: Ignes Semmelweis, a maternity doctor who fought for hospital sanitation, died of sepsis.

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(via Amusing Planet) The relocation of the headquarters building of Indiana Bell Telephone Company in Indianapolis remains one of the

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(via Atlas Obscura) The towboat crews of Vidalia Dock & Storage, headquartered in Vidalia, Louisiana, are tasked with loading, unloading,