April 2020 - Curious Links

The Surprising Origin of Nesquik and Toaster Strudel

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(via Great Big Story) Anyone else feeling nostalgic? We’re finding comfort in eating the breakfast food we loved as kids.

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(via Atlas Obscura) Personal protective equipment can be a source of personal expression.

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(via Mental Floss) If you’re struggling to describe the new coronavirus era we’re living in, well, you’re not alone. In

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(via Amusing Planet) Located near the city of Osoyoos in British Columbia, Canada’s Spotted Lake draws visitors from around the

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(via Smithsonian) Spencer’s ideas laid the groundwork for social Darwinism, but scholars say there was much more to the Victorian

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(via Atlas Obscura) There’s just one chair, too.

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(via Atlas Obscura) For every crisis, a recipe.

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(via Amusing Planet) In 2009, a construction crew digging the foundation for a new hotel in Antakya, Turkey uncovered a

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(via Mental Floss) From modest beginnings and Civil War military victories to the United States presidency and tough times in

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(via Atlas Obscura) You can almost smell the old books.

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(via Smithsonian) The sites include the 5,000-year-old tomb of Meresankh III, the Red Monastery and the Mosque-Madrassa of Sultan Barquq

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(via Amusing Planet) In 1876, the British shipping magnate Frederick Richards Leyland bought himself a grand house at 49 Princes