In a cave in Mexico, the disembodied corpses of dozens of people
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When you spend your time digging in dirt, you get exposed to all sorts of nasty spores
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Gaynor collapsed and died from a bullet that had been lodged in his throat for three years - put there by an eventually successful assassin
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The famous tale of how Ernest Shackleton put together his Antarctic expedition is probably a myth
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What started a month ago with protests-turned-deadly has not gone away
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This isn't the first time a Peace Prize winner has pushed for war
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The ongoing fighting in Syria is devastating irreplaceable artifacts
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The NSA spent decades trying to stop the spread of encryption technology
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Sasanian Persians gassed at least 19 Romans by adding sulfur crystals and bitumen to fire in 256 CE
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Books have been around a long time, but the way we store them--stacked vertically, spines out--is a relatively recent invention
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The U.S. army just built a mobile factory that can break down chemical weapons on site
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Photographs from the early 1900s show Rosh Hashanah in New York
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The well worn, patched up tunic turned up after sections of Norway's quickly-melting Lendbreen glacier retreated
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Translations of a 3rd century Chinese text describe Roman life
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So far, only one South Korean outlet has reported on this latest possible atrocity, and unfortunately it will probably remain that way
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Recently declassified documents detail the CIA's knowledge of Iraq's chemical weapon program in the 1980s
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Siebert bought her seat in 1967, but she remained the only woman on the exchange for almost 10 years after that
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Nixon's public declarations and his private communications were a bundle of contradictions
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Someone, and we don't know who, beat the Vikings to the Faroe Islands by as much as 500 years
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A newly-released 1970s internal CIA report admits the agency's involvement in the 1953 coup
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