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The beloved story sold 6,000 copies in its first week in print and 15,000 in its first year
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Researchers spotted the grey-blue creature off the coast of California—far from its usual haunts in the Southern hemisphere
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But you wouldn’t want to drink from it
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The founding fathers struggled with the idea of whether the top leader should be impeachable
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The Jólakötturinn will make you thankful for those Christmas socks
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<i>I Have a Name/Yo Tengo Nombre</i> offers a devastating glimpse of those who are gone—and a glimmer of hope to those who want to find them
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An anonymous buyer paid triple the estimated sale price for this first-edition copy
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Though avid players walked about 11 extra minutes per day, the boost only lasted around six weeks
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The Park Slope plane crash was a tragedy, but it proved the importance of the flight data recorder
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Su Lin was the first giant panda to come to America, landing in San Francisco in 1936
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Following Russia's annexation of the Crimean peninsula, Ukraine's government asked that the artifacts be returned to Kiev
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Seafloor hot springs are rife with life
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New study suggests pilots are more depressed than the average American
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A massive new box set catpulted the classical superstar to the top of the charts
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It's a brightly colored revenge for restricting the world’s blackest black
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Kokomo, Indiana, has reversed a 61-year-old ban on the game
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Gone With The Wind, the highest-grossing period drama ever, premiered on this day in 1939
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A sensor in the North Atlantic detected a set of waves averaging over six stories tall, setting a new record for a buoy-measured wave
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"Crown Winter With Green" has some serious archival cred—and a sad story to tell
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