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11 Facts About the Pony Express

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(via Mental Floss) Pony Express – the remarkable mail system that carried correspondence and news across the western United States

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(via Atlas Obscura) A wooden fish could help linguists learn more about the writing system known as rongorongo.

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(via Mental Floss) Girl Scouts are synonymous with cookies—and they should be. With $800 million in annual sales, and all

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(via Bowery Boys) The origin of a true Brooklyn ‘start up’ — Charles Pfizer and Co, who went from developing

(via Listverse) While nothing compares to the pressures of having a real job, life at college is extremely stressful. So it

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(via Smithsonian) In 1910, Orville and Wilbur Wright hired an Ohio seamstress, who is only now being recognized as the

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(via Atlas Obscura) Drink like a Prohibition-era teen with recipes for the Hot Cherry Egg Bounce and Hot Egg Lime

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(via Smithsonian) Despite his phobia, the five-star general built the U.S. Air Force

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(via Smithsonian) A new book from Steve Jobs biographer Walter Isaacson offers an incisive portrait of the gene editing field

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(via Atlas Obscura) Qurt is salty, long-lasting, and packed with protein.

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(via Atlas Obscura) From the 1880s to the present, women have helped define, describe, and organize the our solar system,

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(via Atlas Obscura) Perhaps, but humans all over the world, from Siberia to Illinois, have a long history of burying