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Your bookshelf might not seem interesting at first glance, but it has a strange history that might surprise you.Ever since books began phasing out scrolls…
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America's highways are littered with loose ends. In Houston, relics of an incomplete inner city project loom on the east and west ends with nothing…
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Roller coasters are the workhorse of the modern theme park, but their rise to popularity has been long and strange.Its precursor could be found outside of…
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The cereal aisle is run by kids. It’s their purchasing power that brings TV shows, movies, and even stranger products together with the barons of…
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A lot has changed for the Olympics over the last century, including the focus on an entire discipline. The Olympics from 1912 to 1952 weren’t just about…
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The rumors began circulating in 2001 about something called The Ginger Project, or simply “It.” Talk of changing the world, of reorganizing cities, of…
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It seems like every new technology tries its best to kill off the vinyl record.Digital music is the furthest we’ve come from running needles through…
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From the nearest port in South Africa, it takes six days on a fishing boat to reach the small island of Tristan daCunha. Fifteen hundred miles out into…
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Horses get lonely, just like the rest of us. Left isolated, they become withdrawn and take on bad habits called stable vices.To combat this, horse owners…
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The idea of the escalator has been around a lot longer than a working model.Nathan Ames first patented “Revolving Stairs” in 1859, though he didn’t…
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Super Nintendo changed the gaming world, but not always for the better.The 16-bit gaming boom took over the early nineties. It gave us classics like Super…
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California’s San Andreas fault is slowly shifting LA away from the mainland. But we don’t have to look to the future to imagine a disjointed coastline.…