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'Vasa' sunk in front of horrified onlookers on this day in 1628, claiming 30 lives
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The home of the Mona Lisa has a history that's almost 1000 years long
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It's 2000 B.C. and you have a headache. Grab the willow bark
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American pets have been increasingly served up prime cuts of meat, but this food comes at a cost
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New data shows that MU69 is less than 20 miles long and may actually be two asteroids orbiting one another
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The trend of pointing floodlights at churches in Sweden has driven some long-eared bat colonies out of their historic roosts
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The Carlisle Indian Industrial School was founded by a military officer who wanted to “kill the Indian … [and] save the man in him”
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The latest edition of the Duden dictionary includes <i>tindern,</i> or online dating, and <i>postfaktisch</i>, meaning post-truth
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The findings revealed that the bias was strongest in more religious countries including the United States, United Arab Emirates and India
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'The Compleat Angler' is much more than an instruction manual on fishing. It's a Walden-like meditation on nature and friendship
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To mark its 40th anniversary, NASA is asking for your help crafting a message
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The ape was raised by an anthropologist who taught him to clean his room, use the toilet and bargain for cheeseburgers
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In 1937, the Nazis confiscated modernist art from museums and put it up for ridicule in an exhibit that still reverberates today
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A new project maps almost 200 recordings taken in 27 different countries over the past 26 years
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Turns out that cats really don't take direction well
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Astronomers aren't sure if the 5,600-mile-wide storm will peter out or if a deep vortex will keep it churning
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The ancient Greeks, and people for almost 2,000 years after them, argued over whether one was a number
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It’s an epic battle for dumpling domination
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70,000 images are available for download via the National Palace Museum's website
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Video testimony and research findings supplement selections from the museum’s holdings
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