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Bodacious! 25 of the best ’80s TV shows

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George Washington Carver: More than just ‘the peanut guy’

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Someone entered a horse in a race against trains

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Meet the woman who worked for free to win the Nobel Prize in Physics

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How the Apollo 7 mission nearly ended with a mutiny in space

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October 28, 1793: Eli Whitney applies for patent on his cotton gin invention

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October 27, 1904: The New York City subway opens to the public

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The world’s first submarine was a total garbage fire of a creation, and yes, of course they still used it

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You can now read Leonardo da Vinci’s private notebooks online

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The original “Star Trek” was way more historically subversive than you thought

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October 11, 1975: “Saturday Night Live” Debuts On NBC

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October 6, 1889: The first motion picture is revealed by Thomas Edison

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How gambling, drinking, and laziness led to the creation of the sandwich

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According to this newspaper from 106 years ago, humans prefer to just ignore impending doom

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From rites of passage to hipsters: The evolution of tattoos

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During the space race, the Soviet Union ruled Venus

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BBC names Marie Curie most influential woman of all time

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How WWI helped invent the zipper

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Are the Great Pyramid of Giza’s electromagnetic qualities evidence of extraterrestrial life?

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The 16th century shieldgun was an intimidating piece of garbage

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Robert Cornelius: The first man to take a selfie in 1839

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19th-century railway workers’ injuries were so gnarly they needed their own surgeons

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What did people of the past think the future would look like?

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They turned a cat into a phone for the sake of science

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How Florence Sabin transformed medicine and made headway for women scientists

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