In 1804, when she was 5 years old, Mary Anning began to dig in the cliffs that flanked her...
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In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll explore some more curiosities and...
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In the 1970s psychologist David Rosenhan sent healthy volunteers to 12 psychiatric hospitals,...
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In 1990, two thieves dressed as policemen walked into Boston's Gardner museum and walked out...
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Here are five new lateral thinking puzzles -- play along with us as we try to untangle some...
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199-The Mystery of the Carroll A. Deering
In 1921 a schooner ran aground on the treacherous shoals off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina....
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In 1932 a quartet of Bronx gangsters set out to murder a friend of theirs in order to collect...
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In 1977, a young woman named Robyn Davidson set out to pursue what she called a "lunatic idea"...
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When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, the crew of an American seaplane were caught off guard near...
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195-A Case of Musical Plagiarism
When the English concert pianist Joyce Hatto died in 2006, she was remembered as a national...
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194-The Double Life of Clarence King
American geologist Clarence King led a strange double life in the late 1800s: He invented a...
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In the 1930s, brothers Homer and Langley Collyer withdrew from society and began to fill their...
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In 1905 Winchester Cathedral was in danger of collapsing as its eastern end sank into marshy...
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The world's longest airplane flight took place in 1958, when two aircraft mechanics spent 64...
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190-Mary Patten and the Neptune's Car
In 1856, an American clipper ship was approaching Cape Horn when its captain collapsed,...
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In 1835, settlers in Australia discovered a European man dressed in kangaroo skins, a convict...
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During World War II, the U.S. Army experimented with a bizarre plan: using live bats to...
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187-A Human Being in the Bronx Zoo
The Bronx Zoo unveiled a controversial exhibit in 1906 -- a Congolese man in a cage in the...
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In January 1888, after a disarming warm spell, a violent storm of blinding snow and bitter...
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