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Over the past twenty years, cases of the MERS virus might have gone undetected in infected humans
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This Incredible, Folding Design Could Change How Doors Work
It’s about time the door industry got a little more exciting
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This Baby-Making App Is Taking on the Task of Insuring Against Infertility
Those who do not conceive after 10 months receive funds for infertility tests from either a public pool they contributed to or from their employer
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Giant Mango Goes Missing in Australia
A giant, kitschy tourist attraction has disappeared from the Australian town of Bowen
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Tech Companies Are Trying to Make NSA-Proof Encrypted Phones And Apps
From encryption apps to encrypted phones, telecommunications companies are pushing back
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Naples’ Dog DNA Database Tracks Owners Who Don’t Clean Up After Their Pets
U.S. condo building picked up this idea, and now Naples is spreading it across a city
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This Little Gem Is the Oldest Piece of the Earth We’ve Ever Found
A tiny zircon from western Australia is 4.4 billion years old
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Artist Animates What It Feels Like to Take Melatonin
The viewer feels both the frustration of insomnia, and the pleasant lull of the melatonin
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The World’s Most Sampled Song Is “Change the Beat” by Fab 5 Freddy
From Nine Inch Nails to Justin Bieber, nearly everybody has sampled this song
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Paris Is Adding Two More Women to the Pantheon (New Total: Three)
Since its construction, the mausoleum has been filled with 73 bodies. Only one of them is a woman.
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These Two Explorers Just Broke the Record for Longest Walk in the South Pole
Last time someone tried this, the entire team wound up dying from the cold
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Smart Business Plan: Selling Girl Scout Cookies by Medical Marijuana Dispensaries
Somebody should get a “smart businesswoman” badge
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This 700-Year-Old Purse From Iraq Is Remarkably Intact
Handbags have been popular for millennia, but usually we don’t find them all in one piece.
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The Last Beret Maker in France Is Struggling to Survive
French beret makers are facing a continuous drop in demand—plus cheaper imitations from China, India and the Czech Republic
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Islamic Authorities Issue Fatwa on One-Way Trips to Mars
A group of imams in the UAE (the General Authority of Islamic Affairs and Endowment or GAIAE) have issued a fatwa prohibiting muslims from going to Mars
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Embassies Are Working on the Most Diplomatic Ways to Use Facebook
Even Chinese embassies use Facebook. What about the rest of the world?
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The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
The FBI Was Still Investigating John Wilkes Booth a Century After Lincoln’s Death
The blog Wonders and Marvels came across the FBI file on John Wilkes Booth
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Those U.K. Storms Revealed the Remains of a 4,500 Year Old Forest
The ancient preserved forest is tied to the fable of Cantre’r Gwaelod
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A Team of Developers Wants to Print Out Wikipedia—All 1,000 Books Of It
A crowdfunding campaign seeks to make a print copy of the online encyclopedia
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