July 2020 - Page 2 of 6 - Curious Links

Top 10 Short-Lived Inventions That Changed The World

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(via Listverse) In a world of short-lived inventions, today’s gadgets and fads become tomorrow’s relics; sometimes by accident, often by

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(via Atlas Obscura) How Germany’s Lusatian Lakes District is remaking an entire region through broad-scale landscape re-engineering.

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(via Mental Floss) Which side of the pond did you grow up on? How you interpreted the above sentence revealed

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(via Mental Floss) On August 17, 1945, legendary British author George Orwell—who also penned 1984—published Animal Farm, a satirical allegory

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(via Amusing Planet) The Malbork Castle in northern Poland wears two feathers in its cap. Not only it is the

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(via Great Big Story) Who better to see the world with than your best friend? Especially when your best friend

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(via Mental Floss) Even during the worst economic downturn in modern American history, some folks still managed to make a

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(via Listverse) Long before board games such as Monopoly, Yahtzee, Clue, and Candy Land were enjoyed by families on game

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(via Atlas Obscura) Sally Snowman belongs to a tradition of freedom, loneliness, and pride.

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(via Atlas Obscura) Storm King’s director of facilities has to be a landscaper, an art conservator, and even a structural

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(via Smithsonian) Prairie dogs are not big and charismatic like bison, grizzly bears or pandas, but they are just as

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(via Atlas Obscura) This isn’t a good time for cross-country car rides. Good thing John Margolies took a camera on