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Cool Finds

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An Israeli Brewery Recreated a 2,000-Year-Old Beer

Beer brewed as in Biblical times

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This “Sweaty” Billboard Kills Mosquitoes

Gross gimmick or Zika-fighting innovation?

A rainbow can be spotted in the mists of Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe. What better way to celebrate Earth Day than with an exploration of the planet's most colorful places?

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Celebrate Earth Day With a Rainbow of Spectacular Photos

Nature’s palette is unparalleled

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The Hubble Scoped This Space Bubble Just in Time For Its Birthday

The Hubble Telescope has been in orbit for 26 years

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This Artist Builds Tiny Rooms in Milan’s Forgotten Manholes

The seemingly whimsical project has a darker meaning

A 400-year-old dress was recovered from a 17th-century shipwreck off the Dutch coast.

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Dutch Divers Found a 17th-Century Dress Buried Under the Sea

The 400-year-old gown was remarkably well-preserved

Basta Ya! (Enough!) was a community bilingual newspaper published in San Francisco, California from 1969 to about 1973.

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Read Almost 150 Years’ Worth of Mexican-American Journalism

History is in the headlines at the Historic Mexican and Mexican American Press Collection

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Watch Earth’s Atmosphere Brilliantly Light Up From Space

The glow isn’t from an aurora, it’s a phenomena called airglow

This silk satin, lace and whalebone corset gave an 1890s lady her hourglass figure and tiny waist.

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A New Exhibition Is All About Underwear

From a queen’s drawers to David Beckham’s briefs, The Victoria and Albert Museum gets “Undressed”

Six miles to Racetrack, a million miles from civilization—except for the tea.

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Death Valley Has a Secret Shrine to…Tea

Take a kettle, leave a kettle at this remote junction

Boat or floating farm forest? Swale is both.

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New York’s Newest Urban Farm Floats

A barge bursting with vegetables takes to the water this summer

At least the scent of despair comes in a pretty bottle.

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This Perfume Smells Like the Apocalypse

Artists bottled blood and thunder to capture the heady scent of the end times

The Grand Entrance Hall to the Thames Tunnel has been restored and reopened to the public.

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Historic Sites of the London Underground Will Soon Open for Visitors

See Churchill’s blitz bunker and the first underwater tunnel ever built

The tomb was discovered by construction workers near one of Mexico's largest cathedrals.

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A Construction Crew Uncovered the Grave of One of Mexico’s First Catholic Priests

The 16th-century grave was found at the site of an Aztec temple

Sperm whales, giant squid and humans all have a mitochondrial "Eve."

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Your High-End Perfume Is Likely Part Whale Mucus

A single pound of “whale vomit” can be worth tens of thousands of dollars

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Five Fascinating Places to Visit This Obscura Day

Atlas Obscura celebrates all things weird and wonderful worldwide this Saturday

Romp with Ramona, Ribsy and Henry Huggins at Grant Park in Portland.

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Celebrate Beverly Cleary’s 100th Birthday With a Trip to Her Sculpture Garden

Ramona’s creator is even more timeless thanks to Portland’s tribute in bronze

A recipe for an ingredient to make a Philosopher's Stone handwritten by Isaac Newton.

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Isaac Newton Used This Recipe in His Hunt to Make a Philosopher’s Stone

The recently publicized document was kept in a private collection for many years

The three volumes of the newly-discovered copy of Shakespeare's First Folio.

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A New Copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio Was Found in a Scottish Library

Only a few hundred copies still survive

This Booker T. Washington stamp was part of a series depicting influential educators.

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How Booker T. Washington Became the First African-American on a U.S. Postage Stamp

At the time, postage stamps usually depicted white men

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