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Someone Walked Off With a Picasso From a Miami Beach Art Festival
An $85,000 silver plate went missing late last week
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Queen Victoria Dreamed Up the White Wedding Dress in 1840
For most people, wearing a white wedding dress wasn’t really a thing until the 1950s
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Found in “Penny Papers” from the 1800s, A Lost Walt Whitman Poem
A professor at the University of Nebraska stumbled upon an ode to Whitman’s contemporary William Cullen Bryant
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Russia Has Its Own Classic Version of an Animated Winnie-the-Pooh
Three short films produced from 1969 through 1972 follow the adventures of A.A. Milne’s characters
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Pardoned Turkeys Spend a Night in a Hotel First
After an evening in a $350 hotel room, today President Obama will spare the birds from the butcher’s block
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Heroin Use Is on the Rise Again, Thanks to Suburban White Users
OxyContin is heroin’s new gateway drug, experts say
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Millennials Are Different, Just Not the Way You Think
Young adults today are more optimistic despite facing more economic strain than the previous two generations
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More Than 35 Million People Around the World Are Slaves
People are slaves in every one of the 167 countries investigated in a new report, including the United States
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We’re Running Out of Chocolate
We’re eating so much chocolate that plants can’t keep up
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Eat More Seaweed (It’s Good for You)
Foraging for fresh seaweeds gives you option and the best taste according to this Brittany seaweed eater
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Get Past the Vile Smell: Ginkgo Nuts Are Delicious
People have been feasting on these tasty little morsels since at least the 11th century
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ISIS Is Making Its Own Currency
It’s the latest step in the insurgent group’s attempt to forge a new state
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This Artist Makes E. coli-Shaped Popsicles
For those who prefer plants to pathogens, there’s popsicle cacti, too
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North Korea Subsidizes About 70 Schools in Japan
The institutions are a way for ethnic Koreans to connect to their culture but are also targets of criticism
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Living in Tough Environments Makes People More Prone to Belief in God
People living in harsh natural environments are more likely to believe in a tough, moralizing god
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Grad Students Carry 40 Percent of All Student Debt
But they make up just 14 percent of enrollment at U.S. universities
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A Lost John Steinbeck Short Story Was Rediscovered, Published
The short story deals with the racial politics of the mid-20th century
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The World of Personal Computers in the 1980s Was A Wacky, Wonderful Place
You can experience early video games and operating systems yourself through retrocomputing and ads
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Atari Games That No One Wanted Now Selling for $500 a Pop
No one wanted Atari’s E.T. in 1982, but they want it now
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