Unusual Museums

• Clue, Wiffle Ball, Paper Airplane Enter Toy Hall of Fame
• Is It Time We Built a Museum of the History of American History?
• A South London Park of Inaccurate Dinosaur Sculptures That Must Legally Stay Inaccurate
• Inside Connecticut’s Secret Museum of Retro-Future Oddities

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Lost & Found Art

• Rare Photograph of Billy the Kid Found at a Flea Market
• ‘Lost’ Masterpiece by Spanish Artist Found Hanging in Welsh Castle
• This Man Was Living on $200 a Month When He Sold a ‘Worthless’ Blanket for $1.5 Million
• Stolen Painting Worth Estimated $165M Found Behind Bedroom Doo…

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Of Bottles & Ships

• Picking Up Beer Bottles with an Excavator Is Harder Than It Sounds
• This Man Has a Collection of 1200 Messages in Bottles
• $450,000 Antique Treasure Map Found in Attic
• Unusual ‘Coffee Table’ Is a Mosaic from One of Caligula’s Party Ships
• Historians May Have Been Wrong about This Ancient Ro…

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History’s Mysteries

• 10 Historical Events with Hilarious Forgotten Details
• Girl’s Message in a Bottle Finally Answered after 29 Years
• This Nuclear Fallout Shelter Was Untouched for 55 Years. It Might Come in Handy Now
• Long-Forgotten Rodin Sculpture Discovered in New Jersey Town Hall
• The Buried Secrets of the World’s Very First Lighthous…

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Books to School

• Jimbocho: Spending a Day in Tokyo’s Book District
• Drawn and Quarterly’s Incredible Montreal Book Store
• A Love Letter Fell out of an Old Paris Guidebook — and Set a Filmmaker on an Obsessive Quest
• New Zealand Library Cracks Case of the Missing Books
• New Zealand Library Solves Mystery of Missing Book…

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News of the Ancient

• Sweet Potatoes Suggest Easter Island Had More People Than Previously Thought
• Mystery Surrounding Ancient Easter Island People Deepens
• Researchers Unveil an Unusual New Theory for How Easter Island’s Statues Were Made
• Scientists Return from Studying the Lost, Sunken Continent of Zealandia
• ‘Lost Continent’ Expediti…

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Canoe Figure It Out?

• What Is This Thing Someone Found in a Creek Bed?
• Mysterious Object Makes Waves on Rhode Island Beach
• Wooden Canoe Found in Florida Could Be Linked to the 1600s
• Florida Has More Archaeological Canoes Than Anywhere Else in the World
• A Centuries-Old Frieze, Newly Deciphered, Tells the Story of the End of the Bronze Ag…

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Hidden Treasures 1

• Boston University Students Discover 1915 Time Capsule Hidden in Storage
• English School Caretaker Discovers Medieval Coin Hoard Buried in Playground
• New Zealander Finds Photos in Antique Japanese Sewing Box, Requests Internet’s Help Tracing Them
• Garage Sale Jewelry Turns out to Be Worth $30,000

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