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M-185: The Only US Highway Where Motor Vehicles Are Banned

(via Amusing Planet) Highway M-185 in the U.S. state of Michigan, is the safest road in America because it is

(via History) On this day in 1980, 350 million people around the world tune in to television’s popular primetime drama

(via Atlas Obscura) 15,000 doctors applied for permits during the first six months of Prohibition, which began in 1920 and

(via Mental Floss) The Abraham Lincoln collection in the Library of Congress just got a major boost. The 16th president’s

(via Today I Found Out) In 1908, the Ford Motor Company, founded by Henry Ford, released its first Ford Model

(via Great Big Story) At the end of World War II, Germany was divided. Berlin, its capital, was in crisis.

(via CollectSpace) It stood taller than the Statue of Liberty, was more massive than six Boeing 747 jetliners and generated

(via Amusing Planet) Due to several years of rocks falling in, between the year 1931 and 1954, the American Falls

(via The Atlantic) The famous theme of the 1939 New York World’s Fair was “The World of Tomorrow.” Photographer Peter

(via Smithsonian) From tuna fish to the lesser-known woodcock, food experts peer under the bread and find the story of a

(via 99% Invisible) The unexpected attack on Pearl Harbor stoked fears of potential aerial assaults by Japanese forces. So the

(via Popular Mechanics) It’s at the beginning of Back to the Future, about 20 minutes in, when Marty McFly first sees