The Civil War’s Worst Cup of Coffee
(via How Stuff Works) War is hell — and sometimes the coffee is, too. Consider the American Civil War, a four-year bloodbath
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Today’s Nukes Are Thousands of Times More Powerful Than WWII A-Bombs
(via Popular Mechanics) The atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II—codenamed “Little Boy”
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7 Nuclear Test Sites You Can Visit Today
(via Atlas Obscura) The atomic age began on July 16, 1945, when the Manhattan Project detonated its first successful nuclear weapon
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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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