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The Titles of These AI-Generated Christmas Carols Are Pure Cinnamon Hollybells
🎶 We wish you a Merry Jinglelog 🎶
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Germany to Compensate Child Refugees Who Escaped the Nazis on the Kindertransport to Britain
The program brought an estimated 10,000 Jewish children from Nazi-controlled Europe to safety in Great Britain
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When Do Children Give Up on Santa?
A preview of a new international study explores when kids stop believing and how, after the jig is up, it impacted them psychologically
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Looks From ‘The Favourite’ Go on Display in Queen Anne’s Home
See the elaborate dresses and outfits inspired by the monarch’s 18th-century court at Kensington Palace
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A Brief History of ‘Silent Night’
The classic Christmas tune was first composed as a poem, and it was set to music for the first time in the winter of 1818
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Solar Probe Sends Back First Image and Data From the Sun
The Parker Solar Probe survived its first swoop around our star and will get even closer on its next two dozen trips
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We Finally Know What Sank the U.S.S. San Diego During World War I
After six visits to the ship and sophisticated modeling, historians have concluded that a German mine sunk the cruiser off the coast of New York in 1918
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Adelie Penguins Poop So Much, Their Feces Can Be Seen From Space
Satellite images of the Adelie penguin’s pink guano shows how their colony size and diet have changed over the last 4 decades
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Arctic Ice Is Retreating and Reindeer Are Going With It
Herds in Canada, the U.S. and Russia have dropped by over half in 20 years—and some may not recover
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The Goddess in the Margarine Tub Is Just One of 1,267 Treasures Found by the British Public in 2017
A new report reveals the pieces voluntarily recorded with the U.K.’s Portable Antiquities Scheme last year
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By the End of 2018 More Than Half the World Will Be Online
In the past decade, there’s been a huge spike in internet access though that number is beginning to slow down
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Researchers Create First-Ever Honey Bee Vaccine
The compound protects against the American foulbrood disease, but the same technique could lead to protection against other major pathogens
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Forty Years Ago, 12.6 Million Feet of History Went Up in Smoke
Remembering the fire at a National Archives film vault that destroyed years worth of flammable nitrate film newsreels
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What Is ‘Life-Affirming’ Coral, Pantone’s Color of the Year?
What to know about Pantone 16-1546, the orange shade with a golden undertone
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Crab Fishermen Sue Energy Companies Over Climate Change
The suit alleges that oil firms are responsible for climate change driven algae blooms, which have delayed and shortened recent crab-harvesting seasons
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Reggae Officially Declared Global Cultural Treasure
The music, which emerged from Jamaica in the 1960s, was added to Unesco’s global Intangible Cultural Heritage list
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Here’s How That Cow Got So Large
The sad fact is most steers are slaughtered before they reach their full, awesome size, making the Aussie bovine more lucky than freakish
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Why Are Fewer People Majoring in History?
Since the Great Recession, the number of history majors at colleges and universities has dropped by more than 30 percent
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North, South Korea Form Tag Team to Get Traditional Wrestling Unesco Heritage Status
The two nations filed a historic joint application to place traditional Korean wrestling on the world cultural heritage listing
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It Takes 1.71 Days to Poop Out a Lego
Six intrepid volunteers swallowed the heads of LEGO figurines for the unusual study
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