Cool Finds
A Construction Crew Uncovered the Grave of One of Mexico’s First Catholic Priests
The 16th-century grave was found at the site of an Aztec temple
Your High-End Perfume Is Likely Part Whale Mucus
A single pound of "whale vomit" can be worth tens of thousands of dollars
Five Fascinating Places to Visit This Obscura Day
<i>Atlas Obscura</i> celebrates all things weird and wonderful worldwide this Saturday
Celebrate Beverly Cleary’s 100th Birthday With a Trip to Her Sculpture Garden
Ramona's creator is even more timeless thanks to Portland's tribute in bronze
Isaac Newton Used This Recipe in His Hunt to Make a Philosopher’s Stone
The recently publicized document was kept in a private collection for many years
A New Copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio Was Found in a Scottish Library
Only a few hundred copies still survive
How Booker T. Washington Became the First African-American on a U.S. Postage Stamp
At the time, postage stamps usually depicted white men
Celebrate Shakespeare’s Legacy at Hamlet’s Castle
Rest, rest, perturbed spirit! A bed awaits at “Elsinore”
An Italian Senator Wants Kids to Learn About Wine in School
A bill would add wine classes to elementary school curriculums
This Mural Honoring Garbage Collectors Covers More Than 50 Buildings in Cairo
An enormous painting brightens up one of Cairo’s poorest neighborhoods
Neolithic People Were Also Strip Miners
Quarries are changing how archaeologists think about the Stone Age
"New" Rembrandt Created, 347 Years After the Dutch Master's Death
The painting was created using data from more than 168,000 fragments of Rembrandt’s work
After 36 Years, Archivists Finally Found the Wright Brothers’ Airplane Patent
The missing patent was found safe and sound in a Kansas storage facility
Following WWII, New Zealand’s Navy Was Rocked With Peaceful Mutinies
More than 20 percent of the Royal New Zealand Navy was discharged for protesting low pay
Chicago Is Getting a Pizza Museum
Hold the anchovies: This pop-up is a pizza-lover’s dream
UC Irvine Becomes the First American Public University To Offer E-Sports Scholarships
The university jumps into the world of competitive gaming
Switzerland Will Host the First Cyborg Olympics
The “Cybathlon” will show what happens when humans and machines collaborate
How Hearst Tried to Stop ‘Citizen Kane'
The newspaper mogul hated the film more than previously thought
Dog Owners Beware, DNA in Dog Poop Could Be Used to Track You Down
A Chicago apartment building is trying out a new scheme to catch four-legged offenders and their humans
This Transgender Archive’s Oldest Artifacts Tell a Story of Courage and Community
The Digital Transgender Archive was born out of two researchers’ frustration with finding materials by and about transgender people
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