Jrdn88/wikimedia The major innovation for digital video and sound for movies at home came about with the introduction of the Blu-ray disc and the release of the first movies on ...

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Who would have ever thought that something you could find any time you walked out of your front door could have become a million-dollar bestseller. It wasn’t something like diamonds ...

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For a short moment in the late-1980s, Pepsi became the 6th largest navy in the world because of a deal with the Soviet Union. Here’s the story behind how it ...

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There were once many of these objects dotting the floor in the United States Senate, but now there are just two — two spittoons. They aren’t used anymore, but they ...

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Australia has the largest mining gold reserves anywhere in the world at 10,000 metric tons, followed by Russia at 7,500 metric tons. But there is another place that actually has ...

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An organ is defined as a self-contained group of tissues that perform a specific function in the human body. Some examples of organs are, of course, the heart, lungs, stomach, ...

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What was the litter? NASA’s Skylab On July 11, 1979, the 77.5 ton Skylab, the first United States space station, reentered Earth’s atmosphere. Engineers at NASA had turned off the ...

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The Super Soaker has been a staple to cool off and have fun for kids and even adults during those long, hot summer months. But the invention of the Super ...

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Joi Ito/Flickr Mailing a letter from this spot takes a bit of planning. It’s the world’s deepest postbox, and it’s located off the southeastern coast of Japan at a depth ...

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There had been four years of drought in Iran by the beginning of 1972, but for a week in February, the country experienced what has come to be known as ...

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The marathon originated from the legend of Pheidippides. In 490 BC, after running the distance from Marathon to Athens with news the Greeks had defeated the Persians at the Battle ...

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