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DateTitle 2023-05-31 Megalodon tooth necklace spotted in digital scan of Titanic wreck 2023-05-29 Ancient tombs and large mummification workshops unearthed in Egypt 2023-05-24 Last Chinese emperor's ...
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Egypt’s treasures to receive a new $1 billion home

At the edge of the ancient pyramids of Giza, some 5,000 construction workers labor around the clock to finish the long-awaited Grand Egyptian Museum. Expected to open by the end of this year, the ...
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Famous Picasso paintings: 7 works that captured our imagination

It’s hard to imagine a visual record of the 20th century without Pablo Ruiz Picasso. With his bold shapes and characteristic angles, the Spanish artist captured everything from the horrors of war to ...
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The internet’s famous dancing baby from 1996 is getting a new look

If you were born before 1990, you may remember the 3D graphic of an almost-naked baby that danced on a loop to become one of the internet’s earliest viral phenomenons. The strange-yet-sassy “Dancing ...
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Billionaire bunkers: How the 1% are preparing for the apocalypse

Currently being built in Fannin County, Texas, by Vintuary Holdings, Trident Lakes is part country club and part survival community. It will offer condos that are 90% earth sheltered with above ground ...
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‘When can I have one?’: The world’s largest 3D printer is building cozy homes from wood

Dozens of 3D-printed homes have been built across the world – to house a family in the US state of Virginia or members of an impoverished community in rural Mexico. The world’s largest 3D-printed ...
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19th-century Levi’s jeans found in mine shaft sell for more than $87,000

A pair of Levi’s jeans from the 1880s has sold at an auction in a small town in New Mexico for more than $87,000. The jeans – found in an abandoned mine by a “denim archaeologist” – were bought by ...
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IKEA unveils LGBTQ-themed sofas – and the internet has thoughts on its ‘bisexual couch’

IKEA Canada has unveiled a series of colorful couches inspired by different Pride flags, including those representing the transgender, nonbinary and asexual communities. Created to mark Pride Month, ...
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Shanghai Tower picks up 3 Guinness World Records including fastest elevator

A new tall tower has broken ground in New York City. Named the One Vanderbilt Avenue tower, the building is designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox architects, and construction officially started today. At ...
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A short history of the elevator

The first passenger elevator got off to a slow start. Installed in 1857 at the Haughwout Department Store in New York, it was shut down after just three years because customers refused to accept it.
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Escape the corset: How South Koreans are pushing back against beauty standards

Like many women in South Korea, Bae Eun-jeong never left the house without makeup. She hated her natural face. Bae’s beauty regimen routinely took two hours, to the point that she’d give herself less ...
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The beauty of Japan’s lonely vending machines

Vending machines are a mainstay of Japanese culture. There are over 5.5 million in the country – one for every 23 people, the highest ratio in the world. They’re ubiquitous and almost always outdoors, ...