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5 Things You Didn’t Know About Jacques Cousteau

(via mental_floss) French naval officer, explorer, and filmmaker Jacques-Yves Cousteau helped millions of people learn about what goes on under

(via Atlas Obscura) From late 1800s to the 1950s, pulp magazines and books offered a seemingly endless churn of detective

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(via Popular Science) Defending Great Britain and the rest of the free world takes more than dashing looks, a quick

(via Great Big Story) In 1988, Wes Cherry was an intern at Microsoft when he created a game that would

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(via mental_floss) While drive-through windows are often found attached to fast food restaurants and banks, sometimes unlikely businesses also tempt

(via Timeline) Queen for a Day, a 1950s television game show featuring female contestants pleading for badly needed items for

(via Today I Found Out) Conveying calm assurance, the practice of placing one hand inside of a top garment is

(via Atlas Obscura) During the First World War, a menagerie of animals became honorary soldiers in the American army. Whether for the

(via mental_floss) Here’s the most amazing thing you’ll ever read about our 10th president: John Tyler was born in 1790.

(via Popular Mechanics) When a vehicle eclipses the flesh-and-bone actors and becomes the superstar of a film—that’s when it’s a

(via Gizmodo) The images that pop up in most people’s heads when they think about superheroes can be traced back

(via FlavorWire) On February 4, 1938 Walt Disney’s earliest animated feature film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs had a