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In 1957, five Air Force officers volunteered (and one cameraman was voluntold) to stand directly below a mid-air detonation of a 2-kiloton nuclear warhead
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Nazis are known for their heinous wartime crimes and tactics. Now, exploding chocolate can be added to that list, as revealed by a 60-year-old letter
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An advertisement issued by some brilliant London entrepreneurs may well be the first coffee ad ever
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3,000 year old bodies discovered in a bog turned out not to be two bodies at all. The skeletons are stitched together from the remains of six individuals
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To the ancient Greeks, just like today, picking a name for your new pup was an important step. But the process was a little more peculiar back then
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Archaeologists working in northern Germany may have found one of the most important cities in Viking history—Sliasthorp, where once sat Scandanavian kings
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July 5th, 1946 is classically regarded as the birth date of what we now call the bikini. But that version of history misses the long view
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In the early 1940s, in the years after the country had entered World War II, American government had a particular interest in keeping workers on the job
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Olly Moss, a UK-based graphic designer, riffs on Benjamin Franklin's 1754 political cartoon, "Join, or Die."
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The world's oldest purse features a decoration that doesn't look so different from modern beading. It's just way more gruesome
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A photograph from the early 20th century has striking similarities to the magazine's latest cover story
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