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15 Gripping Facts About Galileo

(via Mental Floss) Albert Einstein once said that the work of Galileo Galilei “marks the real beginning of physics.” And

(via Smithsonian) On the evening of October 30, 1938, radio listeners across the U.S. heard a report of mysterious creatures

(via Mental Floss) English number words are pretty logical after a point. From twenty-one to ninety-nine, the same principle applies:

(via All That is Interesting) Researchers discovered ancient texts hidden beneath years of writing in the manuscripts at St. Catherine’s

(via Neatorama) Instead of judging works of literature based on their artistic merit, we’ve decided to rank them by degree

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(via mental_floss) Thanks to extreme conditions, a small research population, close quarters, and the unique experience of life there, Antarctica

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What might people who use American Sign Language (ASL) want people who don’t use it to better understand? DT Bruno,

(via Atlas Obscura) From late 1800s to the 1950s, pulp magazines and books offered a seemingly endless churn of detective

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(via Atlas Obscura) Brian Sonia-Wallace is about to become the first-ever Writer-in-Residence at the Mall of America. And this isn’t

(via The Week) America has long loved the spelling bee. Indeed, long before ESPN, the Scripps Howard News Service, or

(via 99% Invisible)High beams, lower battery, on, off, play, pause, risk of electric shock and fragile: handle with care —

(via History and Piktochart) In a ceremony presided over by President William Howard Taft, the New York Public Library, the