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What Can We Learn from the Ruins of Gary, Indiana? (atlasobscura.com)
4 points by ecliptik 5 hours ago | past | discuss
All About the Spring Festival of Sex Work in Ancient Rome (atlasobscura.com)
4 points by wglb 1 day ago | past | discuss
A blue mineral that grows on buried bodies and confuses archaeologists (2016) (atlasobscura.com)
119 points by mmastrac 1 day ago | past | 74 comments
A Man Who Recorded, Tamed, and Then Sold Nature Sounds to America (2016) (atlasobscura.com)
1 point by XzetaU8 2 days ago | past | discuss
Ra Paulette's Hand-Carved Caves – New Mexico (atlasobscura.com)
1 point by Anon84 5 days ago | past | discuss
World War I dangers in France's red zones (atlasobscura.com)
103 points by sohkamyung 7 days ago | past | 64 comments
Why Jesus Never Ate a Banana (atlasobscura.com)
3 points by austinallegro 8 days ago | past | discuss
The Most Remote Triathlon Involves Bird Eggs, a Volcano, and Bananas (atlasobscura.com)
1 point by Brajeshwar 11 days ago | past | discuss
The Resurrection of Rajasthan's Royal Liquors (atlasobscura.com)
63 points by Thevet 11 days ago | past | 27 comments
Giant Kangaroos Once Towered over Humans at 8 Feet Tall (atlasobscura.com)
1 point by Brajeshwar 14 days ago | past
Star Forts Are Military History and the Base of Some Conspiracy Theories (atlasobscura.com)
2 points by BerislavLopac 16 days ago | past
[flagged] Difficulty levels of most European languages for Americans (atlasobscura.com)
24 points by indigoabstract 17 days ago | past | 66 comments
Did Native Americans Bend These Trees to Mark Trails? (atlasobscura.com)
2 points by JKCalhoun 18 days ago | past
A Man on a Quest to Document Every Apple in North America (2019) (atlasobscura.com)
2 points by Tomte 22 days ago | past
What's the fastest language in the world? (atlasobscura.com)
55 points by ColinWright 28 days ago | past | 61 comments
NASA Artists Are Creating Eye-Popping Posters for the Eclipse (atlasobscura.com)
1 point by Brajeshwar 29 days ago | past | 1 comment
The Mystery and Occasional Poetry Of, Uh, Filled Pauses (atlasobscura.com)
2 points by jamager 29 days ago | past | 1 comment
Philly Typewriter (atlasobscura.com)
48 points by scapecast 30 days ago | past | 9 comments
The Battle to Invent the Automatic Rice Cooker (atlasobscura.com)
23 points by scoot 31 days ago | past | 4 comments
Dungeons and Dragons All Started in This Tiny Wisconsin Town (atlasobscura.com)
13 points by samclemens 31 days ago | past | 3 comments
The Ghost Army, Fake Fleets and Inflatable Enemies of World War II (2017) (atlasobscura.com)
2 points by pepys 39 days ago | past | 1 comment
Space Makes Noise–and Here's the Eerie Song an Eclipse Sings (atlasobscura.com)
1 point by Brajeshwar 40 days ago | past
Washington Mini Monument (atlasobscura.com)
1 point by susam 40 days ago | past
Butterflies Full of Wasps Full of Microwasps Are a Science Nightmare (2021) (atlasobscura.com)
171 points by nxobject 41 days ago | past | 98 comments
New York City Map Is Full of Dutch Secrets (atlasobscura.com)
2 points by Brajeshwar 42 days ago | past | 1 comment
When did dogs become our best friends? (atlasobscura.com)
146 points by diodorus 42 days ago | past | 229 comments
America Is Bigger: the USA Expanded the Size of Two Californias (atlasobscura.com)
1 point by Anon84 44 days ago | past
Stephen King, Shakespeare, and Many Writers Agree: Eclipses Are Doom (atlasobscura.com)
1 point by Brajeshwar 45 days ago | past
Gas Trapped in Antarctic Ice Recorded the Mass Death of 56M People (atlasobscura.com)
11 points by Brajeshwar 46 days ago | past | 6 comments
Cutting-Edge Tech Could Spare America's Unwanted Chickens from Culling (atlasobscura.com)
1 point by rntn 47 days ago | past

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