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These Two Guys Recreate Famous Paintings Using Only Office Supplies and a Phone

FoolsDoArt cranks out slapstick renditions of works ranging from "American Gothic" to "Girl with the Pearl Earring"

Irving Berlin and wife Ellen MacKay

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"White Christmas" Is Actually the Saddest Christmas Song

The season would have reminded composer Irving Berlin of his young son who died Christmas Day in 1928

One of the hapless burglars in "Home Alone" unwittingly stepped on Christmas ornaments placed by Kevin

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Architects Analyze Kevin McCallister's "Home Alone" Booby Traps

Overanalyze Home Alone in every way possible — and it still stands up, all these years later

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Get Set Up With a Family in NYC for Christmas

Don’t be sad at the prospect of spending the holiday alone, a popular photoblog will match you up with a family

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Vinyl Producers Can’t Keep Up With Hipsters’ Demands

Vinyl is cool again, but will it last?

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America's Best Butter Is Handchurned in Vermont

The price for perfection is $49 per pound

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Making Dead People's Pulses Beat Again

A new device can transform 150-year-old printed representations of heart beats into actual sound

Hunters in 1910 pose with their new bear arms

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More Americans Are Pro-Gun Than Pro-Gun Control

Americans prioritize gun rights over gun control for the first time in at least 20 years

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Online Students Give Better Reviews to Professors They Think Are Male

Even if the teachers were actually women, if the students thought they were men, the bias stuck

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Norwegian Nobel Winners Release Their Inner Avant-Garde Musicians

Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine repurposed a Norse folk tune for a science lecture

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Someone Walked Off With a Picasso From a Miami Beach Art Festival

An $85,000 silver plate went missing late last week

An illustration of the marriage of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert on February 10, 1840.

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Queen Victoria Dreamed Up the White Wedding Dress in 1840

For most people, wearing a white wedding dress wasn't really a thing until the 1950s

A steel engraving of Walt Whitman in his 30s from the first edition of Leaves of Grass, published in 1855.

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Found in "Penny Papers" from the 1800s, A Lost Walt Whitman Poem

A professor at the University of Nebraska stumbled upon an ode to Whitman’s contemporary William Cullen Bryant

frame from Winnie-the-Pooh part 1 (1969)

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Russia Has Its Own Classic Version of an Animated Winnie-the-Pooh

Three short films produced from 1969 through 1972 follow the adventures of A.A. Milne's characters

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Computers Write Novels Faster Than You Do

Silicon chips don't suffer writer's block

Two turkeys spent last night in the Willard Intercontinental Hotel in Washington, DC.

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Pardoned Turkeys Spend a Night in a Hotel First

After an evening in a $350 hotel room, today President Obama will spare the birds from the butcher's block

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Heroin Use Is on the Rise Again, Thanks to Suburban White Users

OxyContin is heroin's new gateway drug, experts say

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Millennials Are Different, Just Not the Way You Think

Young adults today are more optimistic despite facing more economic strain than the previous two generations

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More Than 35 Million People Around the World Are Slaves

People are slaves in every one of the 167 countries investigated in a new report, including the United States

We're Running Out of Chocolate

We're eating so much chocolate that plants can't keep up

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