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How Former Samurai and Farmers Cultivated the First Japanese Apples

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

(via Neatorama) In 1939, producer Rudolf Ising and his MGM animation unit were in trouble. Ising, on an inspiration, decided

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(via Great Big Story) Remember when Carl tied all those balloons to his house in the Pixar movie “Up” and

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(via Atlas Obscura) The stonemasons of the Freiburg Minster in southern Germany go to great lengths—and heights.

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(via Listverse) Imagine a war that lasted 335 years but yielded no human losses and caused no bloodshed. Or people

(via Mental Floss) A hero of American folklore, Johnny Appleseed was said to be a barefoot wanderer with a tin

(via Great Big Story) Twenty-four-year-old Frenchman Guirec Soudée set out to see the world from a different vantage point: his

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(via Amusing Planet) The Altai Mountains in Central Asia is exceedingly beautiful with snow-capped peaks, rich pine forests and valleys

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(via Great Big Story) If there is an easy way to get from point a to point b, Joseph Herscher