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What Does the Title 'Esquire' Mean, Anyway? (2021) (atlasobscura.com)
3 points by Tomte 5 months ago | past
The Boiling River of the Amazon (atlasobscura.com)
5 points by Brajeshwar 5 months ago | past
The Battle to Bottle Palm Wine (2021) (atlasobscura.com)
17 points by prmph 5 months ago | past | 19 comments
The Chernobyl Disaster Created an Unexpected Predator Paradise (atlasobscura.com)
5 points by the-mitr 6 months ago | past
1,700 year old egg never broke (atlasobscura.com)
100 points by demadog 6 months ago | past | 35 comments
One Last Ride for Antarctica's 'Ivan the Terra Bus' (atlasobscura.com)
94 points by Thevet 7 months ago | past | 27 comments
What's the Hardest Wood in the World? (atlasobscura.com)
1 point by gfs 7 months ago | past
The Professional Code Breakers of Renaissance Venice (2019) (atlasobscura.com)
2 points by Tomte 7 months ago | past
Can an Outsider Ever Become Amish? (2016) (atlasobscura.com)
5 points by Tomte 7 months ago | past
How Many Other Oceans Exist in Our Solar System? (atlasobscura.com)
2 points by Brajeshwar 7 months ago | past
When Crocodiles Attack: The Ramree Island Massacre (2013) (atlasobscura.com)
77 points by lifeisstillgood 8 months ago | past | 81 comments
Barbed Wire Telephone Lines Brought Isolated Homesteaders Together (atlasobscura.com)
2 points by marcodiego 8 months ago | past
Mimes Directing Traffic in Bogotá Had Surprisingly Loud Impacts (atlasobscura.com)
2 points by mooreds 8 months ago | past | 3 comments
What Lies Beneath the Gravestone of a Fictional It Girl? (atlasobscura.com)
2 points by rmason 8 months ago | past
A Chinatown-by-the-Sea Popped Up on the Jersey Shore (2017) (atlasobscura.com)
1 point by herbertl 8 months ago | past
A Man in 19th-Century Italy Preserved His Own Brain to Fight Eugenics (atlasobscura.com)
1 point by aeneas_ory 8 months ago | past
How Louis Armstrong shaped the sound of Ghana (atlasobscura.com)
48 points by prmph 8 months ago | past | 8 comments
The Quest to Save the World's Rarest Pasta (atlasobscura.com)
1 point by rmason 8 months ago | past | 1 comment
Masters of the Knight: The Art of Chess Carving in India (atlasobscura.com)
9 points by bookofjoe 8 months ago | past
Glow of World’s Oldest Anus (atlasobscura.com)
2 points by aghilmort 9 months ago | past
The World's Oldest Anus Has an Unexplained Glow in Florida (atlasobscura.com)
2 points by pseudolus 9 months ago | past
Masters of the Knight: The Art of Chess Carving in India (atlasobscura.com)
6 points by Brajeshwar 9 months ago | past
The Last Cowboy Boot Masters of El Paso (atlasobscura.com)
28 points by Brajeshwar 9 months ago | past | 4 comments
Volkswagen Sausage and the Enduring Appeal of Culinary Car-Industry Crossovers (atlasobscura.com)
21 points by CaptainZapp 9 months ago | past | 20 comments
The Curious Gems of the River Thames (atlasobscura.com)
74 points by alt227 9 months ago | past | 24 comments
A Short History of Fire Marks, the Hottest Insurance-Related Antiques (2017) (atlasobscura.com)
1 point by zfg 9 months ago | past
The Curious Gems of the River Thames (atlasobscura.com)
5 points by geox 9 months ago | past | 1 comment
Letters Hidden in My Family's Attic Reveal a 1910s Bank Con in Key West (atlasobscura.com)
4 points by Brajeshwar 10 months ago | past
The Controversial Hams That Helped a French Cathedral Save Its Organ (atlasobscura.com)
2 points by Brajeshwar 10 months ago | past
Book of a Century of Historical Sandwiches (atlasobscura.com)
1 point by gnabgib 10 months ago | past

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