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Middleton, The World’s Oldest Operating Railway

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(via Amusing Planet) The Middleton Railway in Leeds has been chugging along for the past 260 years, longer than any

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(via Atlas Obscura) Suffragist cookbooks wielded domesticity as a political tool.

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(via Mental Floss) For the children of Olten, Switzerland, last Friday will be a day they’ll remember for the rest

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(via Atlas Obscura) Famous fruits, including the Fuji apple, were the result of decades of effort.

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(via Smithsonian) Among the finds are manuscripts possibly used to perform illegal Catholic masses, silk fragments and handwritten music

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(via Listverse) Have you ever looked at a guy wearing some lederhosen and thought: “Hmm, what’s the history behind those

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(via Smithsonian) A new book examines the recipes of a dozen cooks who made groundbreaking contributions across the food industry

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(via Listverse) To the victor go the spoils. Throughout history, many conquerors or colonizers have taken treasures back to their

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(via Mental Floss) Julia Child was much more than just a bestselling cookbook author and chef. Over the course of

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(via Great Big Story) John Collins, the “Paper Airplane Guy,” studied origami and aerodynamics in a quest to design the

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(via Smithsonian) Invented by a former auto designer, the foot-powered kids toy still outsells engine-powered cars

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(via Smithsonian) How Americans celebrated the end of World War II As word of the Japanese surrender spread throughout the