YouTube description: Giant Mine sits near Yellowknife, in the Northwest Territories of Canada. Once it was a productive gold mine, but after the gold ran out, the mining company went bankrupt and left... continue reading

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YouTube description: Reggaeton is one of the most popular music genres in the world. Its history is rooted in diaspora migration, censorship, poverty and the reclaiming of Afro-Caribbean identity. We... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 3 weeks ago • 697 views • 10:49

YouTube description: A look at the colorful history of sci-fi book covers

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 month ago • 463 views • 6:29

If you set up a row of dominoes as a timeline of history from the Big Bang to now, and had each domino represent 1 million years it would stretch over 300 meters long. I know because that's what I did... continue reading

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YouTube description: It’s an 1980s pop music cliche that dates back to 1910. If you listen to the first few seconds of Bruno Mars’ “Finesse” (hint: listen to the Cardi B remix) you’ll hear... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 month ago • 566 views • 9:26

As an American living in Thailand, I sometimes see Buddhist (and other Eastern religion) symbols that are pretty close to being swastikas. In many cases, I think that is done without knowledge of the... continue reading

rarre was an 18th-century French peasant who could eat a quarter of a cow carcass in a single day, among other things.

posted by Ashenkase 2 months 2 weeks ago • 70 views • 7:49

They called it that because it lasted 9 years.

YouTube description: Vanguard 1 was the 4th satellite launched, after being beaten by Sputnik 1, 2 and Explorer 1, it also suffered from multiple high profile launch failures. However, 60 years on it's... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 3 months ago • 394 views • 6:41

Mr. Samuel J. Seymour, the last living eyewitness to the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C. was the mystery guest on the February 8, 1956 episode of the I've... continue reading

posted by bobknight33 3 months ago • 8 views • 7:18

Go back in time with these NBC News archive clips from 1994 and 1995 when the "World Wide Web" and Internet were mere mysteries. Source: Today

posted by b4rringt0n 3 months ago • 15 views • 2:12

Now you might be wondering why is there odd pictures of rabbits in the boarders of medieval manuscripts. Ok this is a very oddly specific thing to wonder and it’s unlikely that this is a question that... continue reading

I'd never heard of moiré effect beacons until I got an email asking me about them. It seemed like a really clever idea - but it was really hard to research. Or at least it was, until I stumbled upon one... continue reading

YouTube description: We look at some super rare anatomical models at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History. Featuring Bethany Palumbo from The Oxford University Museum of Natural History... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 3 months 4 weeks ago • 395 views • 6:02