Ladies and gentlemen, start your molecules
The patent for this supremely convenient invention didn't last long
Like the wine and cocaine drink that preceded it, Coca-Cola was first marketed as a brain tonic
The tunnel would help ships and ferries avoid rough seas around the Stadlandet Peninsula where 33 people have died since World War II
Herbert Hoover got a phone in the Oval Office over fifty years after the White House first got a switchboard
Detroit already had car manufacturing capability: that turned into war production capability in the early 1940s
Bodies are complicated, but they’re no match for persistent bioengineers
And contrary to popular myth, he died of natural causes, not by beheading
Stone and Ballast Point Breweries both created beers made from highly purified waste water
These living leaves could eventually become patches for the human heart
It works—but only for hamsters (and maybe people) traveling east
It’s a bright idea that just might help humans create solar fuel
A few days after a New Zealand river gained the rights of personhood, an Indian court has declared that two heavily polluted rivers also have legal status
Peter Cooper thought that round would be the most efficient shape for elevators, and requested an elevator shaft designed accordingly
She revolutionized mathematics, and then was forgotten because she was a woman
The instrument was invented by–you guessed it–Adolphe Sax
But will it make you want to finish <i>Ulysses</i>?
What’s more: Hector Boiardi was a respected chef who even helped cater Woodrow Wilson’s second wedding
This tiny grapefruit-sized satellite will still be up there well into the 2100s if we don’t take it down
The world of surgery before that was much grosser and less effective
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