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The movie star who doubled as a groundbreaking inventor

(via Huck) Once known as ‘the world’s most beautiful woman’, Hedy Lamarr was an icon of Hollywood’s golden era. But she

(via Mental Floss) When Stephen Hawking was diagnosed with motor neurone disease at age 21, doctors thought he’d only survive

(via Mental Floss) Around the world, over 600 million people live near one of 1500 active terrestrial volcanoes. Who’s keeping

(via Action Lab) The host of The Action Lab sat down to demonstrate and explain how he was able to

(via Popular Science) NASA’s Opportunity rover is the longest surviving rover on Mars. On Saturday, February 17, it experienced its

(via Atlas Obscura) Pablo Picasso was one of the most prolific painters of the 20th century. Perhaps as a result of

(via Vox) Winter Olympic ice sports are possible due to this one fact: Ice is slippery. The low friction of ice

(via Atlas Obscura) For the last hundred years, Germany’s Historical Museum of the Palatinate has housed the world’s oldest unopened

(via Atlas Obscura) Great minds don’t necessarily think alike when tinkling the ivories.

(via Atlas Obscura) The strange truth about leftovers is that they often taste better the next day. It seems counter-intuitive:

(via Popular Mechanics) Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is one of the solar system’s great wonders, a centuries-old storm that is

(via The Atlantic) When the botanist Richard Deakin examined Rome’s Colosseum in the 1850s, he found 420 species of plant