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Volunteers Counted All the Squirrels in Central Park

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(via Smithsonian) Three hundred people tallied up the number of bushy-tailed residents over the course of 11 days last October.

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(via Listverse) We often do not pay attention to the colors of several everyday things. However, we would be quick

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(via Listverse) The European Middle Ages lasted a thousand years, running roughly from AD 500 to AD 1500. A lot

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(via Mental Floss) There’s something ghoulishly fascinating about a mysterious disappearance, and our vast oceans offer seemingly endless space in

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(via Mental Floss) Over 41 issues, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin was published as a serial in the

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(via The Atlantic) Fluff. The sticky sweet marshmallow creme was invented exactly one hundred years ago in Somerville, Massachusetts—at the

(via Atlas Obscura) In September 1962, something fell from aloft in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, cracking the asphalt on North 8th Street

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(via Popular Mechanics) On June 6, 1944, a lone C-47 led the Normandy invasion. Seventy-five years later, the plane will

(via mental_floss) Want to know which state capital’s name means “a good place to dig wild potatoes?” Or which cities

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(via Amusing Planet) 1991 was a notable year in the geopolitical history of the world. Among other events, the Soviet

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(via Listverse) We probably pay less attention than we should to the continents on Earth. How many are there anyway?

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(via Amusing Planet) During the American Civil War, the Union Navy designed a class of warships called “Casco” that could