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What’s in a Name? Meet the Government Employees Who Make the Call

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(via Smithsonian) A little-known patchwork of bureaucratic boards are tasked with deciding when to change the names of geographic places.

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(via Mental Floss) In February 2011, then-Prime Minster David Cameron adopted a tabby cat from Battersea Dogs and Cats Home

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(via Amusing Planet) The world’s shortest commercial flight takes place between the two Orkney Islands, Westray and Papa Westray, just

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(via Smithsonian) The design for the medals, created by Junichi Kawanishi, were unveiled this week

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(via Mental Floss) Amelia Earhart, who was born on July 24, 1897, was a pioneer, a legend, and a mystery.

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(via Atlas Obscura) They slipped and fell. Really!

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(via Mental Floss) With their imposing size and universal symbolism, trees are the celebrities of the plant world. But some

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(via Listverse) The battlefield is one of the most hectic locations imaginable, a place where laser focus is required to

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(via Atlas Obscura) “Insurance covers” were meant to provide for their families in the event of disaster.

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(via Amusing Planet) The electric blue waters of this pond in the Russian city of Novosibirsk has become the backdrop

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(via Atlas Obscura) Fifty years ago this month, Apollo 11 left Earth, traveled through space and landed on the moon.

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(via Listverse) Smell is most ephemeral of senses. We can easily imagine how the past looked, but rarely do we