Now There’s an Armageddon-Proof Library to Go With Norway’s Doomsday Seed Bank
(via Popular Mechanics)Way up north in Norway, the Svalbard Global Seed Bank is a repository for the world’s most important
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Yuri Gargarin first in space 56 years ago today
(via Live Science) On April 12, 1961, aboard the spacecraft Vostok 1, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin becomes the first
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How a Wild West Showman Brought Man-Lifting Kites to the British Army
(via Atlas Obscura) Around 1900, so-called “man-lifting kites” were gaining in popularity throughout the U.S. and Europe and had especially
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NASA Launches the Galaxy’s Most Glorious Space Database
(via Smithsonian) Space is full of eye candy: exploding stars, nebulas of every shape and size, bizarre alien worlds. Though few
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This Device Collects Water From the Clouds
(via Smithsonian) On a dry, rocky slope of Mount Boutmezguida in southwest Morocco, a series of mesh billboards stand perched
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11 Amazing Things You Didn’t Know Were Invented by Kids
(via mental_floss) It doesn’t take decades of life experience to have a great idea. In fact, you don’t even have
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10 Things You May Not Know About the Pony Express
(via History) On this day in 1860, the first Pony Express mail, traveling by horse and rider relay teams, simultaneously
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V-Mail: the WWII program that scanned GI letters home onto microfilm
(via Retronaut) Shortly after entering World War II, the US military found that delivering immense volumes of mail to and
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Transforming a Football Stadium Into a Final Four Court
(via Popular Mechanics) University of Phoenix Stadium is no newbie when it comes to hosting a Big Game. It set
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Why Planes Don’t Fly Any Faster Than They Did in the 1960s
(via mental_floss) The airplane experience has changed a lot since the 1960s, when tickets could cost up to five times
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The Controversial Zeppelin Stamps That Enraged 1930s Collectors
(via Atlas Obscura) On May 21, 1930, the world’s biggest airship, the Graf Zeppelin, floated over the Cape Verde Islands
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The First Spacewalker Cheated Death And Crash-Landed In a Forest Full of Wolves
(via Motherboard) March 18, 1965 was an ordinary Thursday for the majority of people located on planet Earth. But for 30-year-old
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