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Gilgamesh statue at Sydney University

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Iraqi Museum Discovers Missing Lines From the Epic of Gilgamesh

One of the world’s first great stories just got a new chapter

Sears sweater models...or government agents?

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In Vietnam, the C.I.A. Paid Spies With Stuff From Sears

Nothing says “clandestine espionage” like a mail-order catalog

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Feast Your Eyes on an Optical Illusion Cake

This may be the most delicious optical illusion

The dining room on the Titanic

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A Lunch Menu From the Titanic Just Sold for $88,000

The “unsinkable” ship served corned beef, mutton chops and custard pudding

The team had a single day to uncover the massive mammoth's skeleton.

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Michigan Farmer Stumbles on a Mammoth Skeleton

Paleontologists excavated the skeleton, prying the bones from the dark muck of the field

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How a Captain Morgan Advertisement Inspired an Emergency Room Technique

Captain Morgan, hip fixer

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Here’s What Whale Songs Look Like as Sheet Music

Musical notation created by a musician and a designer make whale song look almost like an alien language

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Why Scientists Are Gathering Seeds From Roadside Sunflowers

Climate changes threatens commercial sunflower production, where plants are grown for their oil

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It Will Take Nine Years to Clean the Taj Majal

“Mudpack therapy” will help the iconic monument clean up its act

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If You Die in This Video Game, You Can Never Play Again

How do people play when dead means dead?

A newspaper report of Leoti Blaker, who stabbed a man with a hatpin when he would not leave her alone.

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American Women in the 1900s Called Street Harassers ‘Mashers’ and Stabbed Them With Hatpins

These are the turn-of-the-century women who fought back when men tried to grab them

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For $1,600 You Can Own a Genetically Altered Micropig

From lab animal to potential pet

Helen Keller in a photograph taken to promote her efforts to give radios to poor blind children.

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How Helen Keller Experienced Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony

“I could actually distinguish the cornets, the roll of the drums, deep-toned violas and violins singing in exquisite unison”

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The Nazis Wanted to Beat the British With Exploding Chocolate Bars

Sweet, but scary

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Scientists Just Found a Sea Turtle That Glows

The turtle is the first biofluorescent reptile ever found in the wild

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Americans Used to Eat Four Meals a Day

Rest in peace, “second supper”

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Yet Another Highly-Venomous Snake Discovered in Australia

The Kimberley death adder is one of the most venomous snakes in the world

A domed building serves as the village center and is visible from everywhere in Matavenero, Spain

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Spain Has Turned a Ghost Town Into an Off-Grid Eco-Village

A photographer documents the remote, self-sufficient lifestyle

The Mason jar can even be used to serve oatmeal -- though other containers might be better suited for this particular stunt.

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How Mason Jars Went from Thrifty to Hip

One jar that can be used to store pickles, serve cocktails and, with some craftiness, light up a room (just not all at the same time)

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This Man Tracked his Sneezes for Five Years and Fixed his Pollen Allergy

What a little bit of data about health can do

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