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How do you actually get rid of graffiti? Chemistry, of course
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Today is J.R.R. Tolkien's birthday, and in his honor here's how to throw the best Hobbit Birthday ever
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Symbolab allows users to search for equations using both numbers and symbols as well as text
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In 1963, this professor of poultry science came up with the first chicken nuggets
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Tonight, when you pop the bubbly, are you popping champagne or sparkling wine? How should you pour it? How do you drink it?
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Good news for journalists, editors and newspapers: the New York Times paywall seems to be working
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A tiny island with little more than a lighthouse and some puffins is the center of a border disagreement
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Merging iconic space imagery with everyone's (least) favorite font
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The history of gingerbread starts as early as the 11th century
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After Frida Kahlo died, her husband, the painter Diego Rivera, refused to let anyone open her closet. Now, Frida's closet is on display for the world
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This bicycle-mounted coconut holder lets you pretend you're riding a horse
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On Friday, December 21st, a day of cease fire for online shooters
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The Hobbit was shot on a RED camera developed by sunglass mogle Jim Jannard
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A historian in Denmark may have discovered Hans Christian Andersen's first fairy tale ever
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Thanks to Twitter, even people with no direct contact Great Britain's subjects can bask in its citizen's propensity for weather-related complaint
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How exactly does one prepare for the end of the world?
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The Syrian rebel forces, who face a strong disparity in access to the tools of war, have fashioned themselves a homemade tank
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For the first time in its 125 year history, National Geographic has opened up its collection to bidders at Christie's an art auction house based in NYC
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A recent study found no evidence that using blood doping drugs gives elite athletes any advantage
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Born in 1896, Besse Cooper was came into a world that was vastly different than the one she just left
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