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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

Kronborg Castle, listed as World Heritage by UNESCO, is known as the setting of William Shakespeare's 'Hamlet'.

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Celebrate Shakespeare’s Legacy at Hamlet’s Castle

Rest, rest, perturbed spirit! A bed awaits at “Elsinore”

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An Italian Senator Wants Kids to Learn About Wine in School

A bill would add wine classes to elementary school curriculums

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This Mural Honoring Garbage Collectors Covers More Than 50 Buildings in Cairo

An enormous painting brightens up one of Cairo’s poorest neighborhoods

Researchers once thought these holes were from food prep. They were wrong.

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Neolithic People Were Also Strip Miners

Quarries are changing how archaeologists think about the Stone Age

Every single one of the 148 million pixels in this portrait was based on Rembrandt's body of work.

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“New” Rembrandt Created, 347 Years After the Dutch Master’s Death

The painting was created using data from more than 168,000 fragments of Rembrandt’s work

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After 36 Years, Archivists Finally Found the Wright Brothers’ Airplane Patent

The missing patent was found safe and sound in a Kansas storage facility

The HMNZS Bellona in April 1947, just before the crew mutinied.

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Following WWII, New Zealand’s Navy Was Rocked With Peaceful Mutinies

More than 20 percent of the Royal New Zealand Navy was discharged for protesting low pay

A box from Zuppardi's in West Haven, Connecticut.

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Chicago Is Getting a Pizza Museum

Hold the anchovies: This pop-up is a pizza-lover’s dream

University of California, Irvine students playing League of Legends.

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UC Irvine Becomes the First American Public University To Offer E-Sports Scholarships

The university jumps into the world of competitive gaming

A man with a mind-controlled prosthetic competes in a test run of October's Cybathlon in Switzerland.

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Switzerland Will Host the First Cyborg Olympics

The “Cybathlon” will show what happens when humans and machines collaborate

Welles' Kane was a thinly-veiled portrait of the man who tried to take him down.

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How Hearst Tried to Stop ‘Citizen Kane’

The newspaper mogul hated the film more than previously thought

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Dog Owners Beware, DNA in Dog Poop Could Be Used to Track You Down

A Chicago apartment building is trying out a new scheme to catch four-legged offenders and their humans

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