The Story of the Little Tree Car Air Fresheners
(via Great Big Story) You can find them in seemingly every taxi cab in the world, and are the general
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The Science of How The Wave Is Performed at Sporting Events
(via mental_floss) The Wave, a favorite of crowds at professional sports arenas, was first recorded at an Oakland baseball game
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Inside the ‘Wire Center’ That Connected Manhattan to the World
(via Wired) Back in the days when people used landline telephones strung together with copper wire, most calls into lower Manhattan passed
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Vet Will Fulfill Lifelong Dream of Becoming a Chef After Double Arm Transplant
(via First We Feast) John Peck, a 31-year-old Marine veteran from Fredericksburg, Virginia, became a quadruple amputee some six years
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The Untold Story of the Man Who Called Himself the “Black Edison”
(via Popular Mechanics) It’s 3 AM on July 25, 1916, and Garrett Morgan’s phone rings. The voice on the other
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How Photo Retouching Worked Before Photoshop
(via mental_floss) Retouching has been around almost as long as photography itself, but instead of taking place on a computer,
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The Battle Over Net Neutrality Started With the 1920s-Era ‘Hush-A-Phone’
(via Atlas Obscura) It’s not unusual today to overhear strangers’ intimate phone conversations while commuting to work on public transit,
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How the Humble Pencil Conquered the World
(via Popular Mechanics) Pencils aren’t just for the SATs. It is the go-to drawing tool of the carpenter and the
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GM Is Gluing Its New Cars Together to Save Weight
(via Popular Mechanics) Gluing a car together might seem like a dangerous way to reduce weight, but it turns out
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Ten Medical Innovations from World War I
(via BBC) In response to the new, devastating weapons of industrialized warfare of World War I came equally advanced medical
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The Roman Empire’s Secret Weapon Was Whistling Ammo
(via Popular Mechanics) A team of archaeologists, bolstered by a helpful fisherman, have discovered a previously unknown psychological tactic employed
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Classic Carnival Rides Are Flight Simulators in Disguise
(via Atlas Obscura) Lee Eyerly was trying to help people learn how to fly. The flight simulator he built at
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