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India’s “plantain man” has traveled widely to collect unusual banana varieties
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78 comments
5 years ago
fortran77
220 points
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A Forest Grew for Millennia in North America Without Anyone Noticing
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43 comments
10 years ago
curtis
220 points
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The British Once Built a 1,100-Mile Hedge Through the Middle of India
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97 comments
8 years ago
kumarski
219 points
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The Weird, Dangerous, Isolated Life of the Saturation Diver
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90 comments
8 years ago
tokenadult
217 points
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Library Hand, the Fastidiously Neat Penmanship Style Made for Card Catalogs
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48 comments
9 years ago
diodorus
211 points
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Tiny, Perfect Staircases Made by French Woodworkers
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51 comments
8 years ago
Erlangolem
210 points
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The New York Public Library’s Last, Secret Apartments (2016)
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60 comments
6 years ago
jason_slack
209 points
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A little-known airline has linked Cairo and Tel Aviv for decades
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42 comments
6 years ago
CaptainZapp
205 points
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Cincinnati is home to the largest unused subway system in the world (2016)
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223 comments
5 years ago
respinal
203 points
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The saga of the cannibal ants in a Soviet nuclear bunker (2019)
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49 comments
5 years ago
mkotowski
200 points
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Bent horizon photos
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27 comments
9 years ago
jamesbowman
198 points
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A 'scam manual' written to help immigrants not become victims
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135 comments
2 years ago
BerislavLopac
196 points
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A College Student Who Decoded the Data Hidden in Inca Knots
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35 comments
9 years ago
leahculver
196 points
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Tuned Mass Damper of Taipei 101
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82 comments
4 years ago
warent
195 points
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A Vast, 430-Year-Old World Map
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37 comments
8 years ago
bcaulfield
195 points
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When India kicked out Coca-Cola, local sodas thrived (2019)
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101 comments
6 years ago
ycombonator
194 points
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The Delightful Perversity of Québec's Catholic Swear Words
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64 comments
10 years ago
auxym
193 points
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The Lost Sign Language of Sawmill Workers
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43 comments
10 years ago
curtis
191 points
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Slovenia’s beautiful beehives turn apiaries into art
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30 comments
3 years ago
Thevet
191 points
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The once-extinct aurochs may soon roam Europe again
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147 comments
4 years ago
CapitalistCartr
190 points
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How the Commodore Amiga powered cable systems in the 90s
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71 comments
5 years ago
rbanffy
187 points
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Why People from Manchester Are Mancunians, Not Manchesterians
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131 comments
9 years ago
sohkamyung
186 points
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How the Library of Congress Unrolled a 2000-Year-Old Buddhist Scroll
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43 comments
7 years ago
sohkamyung
186 points
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Before Food Trucks, Americans Ate 'Night Lunch' from Beautiful Wagons
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62 comments
8 years ago
extarial
185 points
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Found: A Colossal Statue of Ramses II Hiding Under a Cairo Street
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35 comments
9 years ago
Mz
185 points
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A Soccer Con Man Who Couldn't Play the Game
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106 comments
10 years ago
dluan
183 points
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C.S. Lewis's Greatest Fiction: Telling Kids They’d Like Turkish Delight (2015)
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125 comments
9 years ago
tbirrell
180 points
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Why Italy Fell Out of Love with Cilantro
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230 comments
2 years ago
pepys
177 points
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How to Calm a Crying Baby Like a Mesopotamian
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116 comments
7 years ago
diodorus
175 points
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The Doomed Mouse Utopia That Inspired the 'Rats of NIMH'
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103 comments
10 years ago
tosh
175 points
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