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This Painting Was Purchased At An Estate Sale In Michigan For $30. It Just Sold At Auction For $1.3 Million

In 2025, a man purchased Gertrude Abercrombie's 1951 painting "Alderman Merriam's Shells" in Michigan for $30 — and just sold ...
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‘It Would Have Been Very Gruesome’: Researchers Just Proved That Egyptian Rulers Were Buried With Dozens Of Human Sacrifices

Researchers studying remains from the royal cemetery of Umm el-Qaab in Abydos found that the pharaohs were buried alongside ...
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Melting Ice In Southern Norway Just Revealed Dozens Of Prehistoric Arrows Dating As Far Back As 6,000 Years

Archaeologists exploring Kvitingskjølen mountain recently came across dozens of prehistoric arrows dating as far back as ...
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Archaeologists In Egypt Just Found A 1,900-Year-Old Ring Depicting The Lighthouse Of Alexandria

Archaeologists exploring the waters off Egypt's Mediterranean coast discovered a 1,900-year-old ring emblazoned with an image ...
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Inside The Amazonian Guards, The Elite All-Female Unit That Protected Libyan Dictator Muammar Gaddafi

The Amazonian Guard was formed around the 1980s to protect the Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, but little is known about the ...
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A New Species Of Dinosaur With Four Wings Was Just Identified By Paleontologists In China

Norellraptor barsboldi was identified in a perfectly-preserved fossil from the Early Cretaceous that was found at the ...
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This Cipher That Napoleon Used Went Unsolved For 217 Years. ChatGPT Just Solved It In Six Hours

Napoleon's cipher to General Auguste de Marmont went unsolved for 217 years — but an AI engineer used ChatGPT to solve it in ...
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This 2,800-Year-Old Palace Discovered In Ethiopia May Have Been One Of The World’s Very First ‘Skyscrapers’

Researchers studying the Grat Be’al Gibri palace in Yeha, Ethiopia have concluded that it may have stood a whopping 19 ...
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Nazi Propaganda Posters: Controlling Minds Through Lines And Color

These Nazi propaganda posters are as repugnant in their message as they are impressive in their artistic craftsmanship. In order to control a population, you must first control the population’s minds.
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The Doomed Journey Of The Endurance Ship And Her Miraculous Discovery Over A Century Later

In 1915, Ernest Shackleton and his crew set out on an expedition in the Endurance to become the first team to make a land crossing of Antarctica. Their ship would become stuck in the ice and sink, ...
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Inside ‘Phossy Jaw,’ The Deadly Condition That Plagued 19th-Century Matchstick Girls

In 1855, a 16-year-old factory worker named Cornelia visited a doctor in New York with a toothache on the right side of her lower jaw. According to the teen, she had been working at least eight-hour ...
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The Ghostly Legends Of Crybaby Bridges, Where The Wails Of Murdered Infants Rise From The Waters Below

In rural areas across the United States, spooky sites known as “crybaby bridges” draw curious locals and countless tourists fascinated by the supernatural. Named for the local legends of ghostly cries ...