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You'd think the debut of mass broadcast technology would feature sweeping music or a profound speech, but no, it was just dudes reading data. On November 2,…
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The wealthy truly have no concept of normal behavior. Elite households required their domestic staff to run a hot iron over the morning newspaper just to dry…
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Because extreme cold isn't dramatic enough, this Antarctic volcano casually grows massive, jagged ice chimneys. Hot volcanic gases vent up to the freezing…
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Taking over an entire sovereign nation usually requires a massive formal treaty, but lawmakers were heavily impatient. In 1898, pro-annexation politicians…
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Western medicine loves to pat itself on the back for discovering how blood circulates in the 17th century, completely ignoring that a Syrian polymath beat…
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King Shaka understood that controlling the economy meant monopolizing the cows. In the Zulu Kingdom, cattle were the primary currency for lobola (bride…
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