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This Surgeon Has Restored Sight to 130,000 Blind People

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(via Great Big Story) Dr. Sanduk Ruit is an ophthalmologist on a mission to restore sight to Nepal’s blind. He

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(via Mental Floss) The joy of genealogy is in finding unexpected twists and turns in your family’s past. For some,

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

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(via Great Big Story) At 13 years old, Najiah Knight is a bull rider. She is the only girl competing

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(via Smithsonian) You don’t have to travel to Europe to see turrets, gate houses and other architectural features reminiscent of

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(via Great Big Story) “I’m 4-foot-5. But I carry myself like I’m 6-foot-5.” Jahmani Swanson doesn’t just talk a good

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(via Mental Floss) Before she helped send the first astronauts to the moon, won the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and

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(via Mental Floss) Some feuds make—and change!—history. The Hatfields and McCoys. Edison versus Tesla. Coke and Pepsi. Here are eight

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(via Mental Floss) From the familiar faces that grace your morning cereal boxes to those recurring television characters whose full

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(via Mental Floss) Valentine’s Day is the opportune holiday to express all the lovey-dovey feelings you may not usually take

(via Atlas Obscura) Most people are familiar with that most clichéd of old cinema tropes: the damsel-in-distress, tied to the railroad tracks by