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See Inside One of America’s Last Pencil Factories
The family-owned facility in Tennessee produces more than 70 million pencils annually
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The Remarkable Effort to Locate America's Lost Patents
An 1836 blaze destroyed thousands of records that catalogued the young nation's ingenuity, but recent discoveries indicate that originals may still exist
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The Little-Known Recording of Louis Armstrong Reciting 'The Night Before Christmas'
Shortly before he died, the jazz legend offered his own rendition of the classic holiday poem
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