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Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial in Colleville-sur-Mer, France
Without the invasion in Normandy, which lead to the withdrawal and defeat of the Nazis, the world would be a different place. Today, the sacrifices of the American soldiers who landed on the beaches of...
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The Long, Weird Transition from Analog to Digital Television
A version of this post originally appeared on Tedium, a twice-weekly newsletter that hunts for the end of the long tail.The Federal Communications Commission had a hard job in front of it at the turn...
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UFO of Bratislava in Bratislava, Slovakia
There is a large housing settlement on the east side of Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia. It’s comprised of three tight circles of low-rise towers from the Soviet era, both in their vintage and...
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Kennecott Ghost Town in Chitina, Alaska
The town Kennecott in Alaska was once flourishing, full of workers who came to the town in search of wealth and work in the mines. There were businesses, shops, a train connection, and a lot of life....
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Claude Monet House and Gardens in Giverny, France
Walking through these gardens is like stepping in to one of Claude Monet’s famous paintings.The House and Gardens of Claude Monet is the beautifully restored home of the painter Claude Monet who is the...
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The Beautiful, Forgotten and Moving Graves of New England's Slaves
Most of New England’s colonial-era graveyards hold the bones of slaves. This is true not only of the urban graveyards of Boston and Newport, but also of the sleepy little cemeteries nestled among the...
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Presidential Campaigns of the 1800s Involved A Surprising Amount of Flags and...
President William Henry Harrison may be best known, rather unfortunately, for being the country’s shortest serving president. But he’s also credited with two other unusual facts. It's because of...
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The Horrifying Legacy of the Victorian Tapeworm Diet
From horrifying foot-binding practices in Imperial China to life-threatening surgeries in modernity, humanity has been finding harmful ways to modify the body since the dawn of civilization. The...
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Bily Clocks Museum in Spillville, Iowa
Frank and Joseph Bily were born in the late 19th century on a farm near the predominantly Czech town Spillville, Iowa. They went on to become farmers themselves, as well as carpenters; to pass the time...
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Dettifoss in Iceland
In Iceland's Vatnajökull National Park, the waters of the mighty Dettifoss are ever-crashing.The waters of the falls comes from the nearby Vatnajökull glacier, whose sediment-rich runoff colors the...
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What’s A Woggin? A Bird, a Word, and a Linguistic Mystery
On December 20, 1792, the whaling ship Asia was making its way through the Desolation Islands, in the Indian Ocean, when the crew decided to stop for lunch. According to the ship's logger, the meal was...
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Secret Celtic Tree Cross in Killea, Ireland
Flying over Ireland is always a magical experience. But then travelers speeding over County Donegal started noticing a particularly mystical sight: a 300-foot-long Celtic cross, made of thousands of...
View ArticleWatch a Serial Killer Play the Dating Game
It's not just the stilted dialogue and cringe-worthy innuendoes that make this Dating Game clip from 1978 seem off somehow. Bachelor number one is Rodney Alcala, who would be sentenced to death for the...
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The Strange Story of Why Belize is Full of Chicago Cubs Fans
Less than four years after gaining independence from the United Kingdom, the Caribbean nation of Belize notched a smaller, yet somehow lasting, triumph in 1985. That winter, the Chicago Cubs sent their...
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Jelling Viking Monuments in Jelling, Denmark
The little Danish village of Jelling was the seat of the country's first Viking monarchs. King Gorm and his son, Harald Bluetooth (whose name and runic symbol were later given to Bluetooth technology)...
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Stone City in Anamosa, Iowa
In the middle of the 19th century, a source of dolomite limestone was discovered in eastern Iowa. Shortly thereafter, multiple quarries began operating near the town of Anamosa, and proved so...
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The Inept Story Behind 100 Missing Brains at the University of Texas
A version of this story originally appeared on Muckrock.com.A couple years ago, a story started to make the “news of the weird” rounds about roughly 100 brains missing from the University of Texas at...
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Ugland House in George Town, Cayman Islands
In 2015, American multinational corporations held an estimated $2.5 trillion in overseas tax havens, more than the GDP of the entire country of France. These tax havens are scattered across the globe,...
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Statue of Loreley in Sankt Goarshausen, Germany
On the tip of a causeway in the Rhine River, a 3.3-meter-tall bronze female figure watches ships go up and down the busy waterway. Sharing a name with the slate promontory towering overhead, the...
View ArticleWatch the Domino Effect of 8,000 Matches Going Up in Flames
For reasons science has not been able to discern, we are all inexplicably fascinated by the domino effect. Like moths to a flame and vampires to a pulsing vein, we can't help but be transfixed by the...
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