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The trove of cool artifacts comes from the world's largest private collection of spycraft
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An ancient text called the Bakhshali manuscript has bumped zero’s origin story back by 500 years
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Eating chocolate is a relatively new innovation
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What started out as an advertising ploy turned into a low-key cultural phenomenon
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The idea of a ninth planet in the Solar System would resolve a mathematical conundrum about Mercury–only problem is, it wasn't there
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The icy Fischli/Weiss art installation on top of the Art Institute survived the swelter of the Windy City and will go on display next in San Francisco
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Émile Baudot, born a year after the first long-distance telegraph message was sent, helped advance the technology
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After 25 years and millions of dollars, the coast-to-coast hiking, biking and paddling trail has an official route
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She was the first female telephone operator. Before her, telephone operators were teenaged boys. That didn't go so well
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The term 'magic bullet' once just meant a targeted drug
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The original vacuum cleaner required a number of improvements before becoming the household staple it is today
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Impatient readers can quench their thirst with the awkward, yet fascinating, prose of a neural network trained on George R.R. Martin
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The first 'can opener' was a hammer and chisel
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From humble origins, this ancient punctuation mark has gained new life as a symbol to connect us all on social media
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A Kent State archaeologist is testing the innovative engineering of the Clovis people, one of the earliest communities to inhabit North America
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William Seward Burroughs (no, not that one) was the first man to invent a commercially practical calculator
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You could say the first Mayo Clinic was a dance hall that had been converted into a makeshift field hospital
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"The Sands," currently on view at Essex Flowers, projects elaborate creations in a physically empty space
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It took multiple attempts—and two broken printers—to get the recreations right
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