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2015Dogs that protect little penguins (bbc.com)
70 points | 5 years ago with 26 comments
2013Confused Xerox copiers rewrite scanned documents, expert finds (bbc.com)
69 points | 2 years ago with 7 comments
2018How the Finnish survive without small talk (bbc.com)
64 points | 2 years ago with 48 comments
2014Why some trees evolved to live underground (bbc.com)
61 points | 7 years ago with 6 comments
2014Tungsten: The Perfect Metal for Bullets and Missiles (bbc.com)
60 points | 6 years ago with 60 comments
2012A movie changed one man's vision (bbc.com)
60 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 18 comments
2017How Tube stations got their unusual names (bbc.com)
58 points | 4 years ago with 24 comments
2016Jon Skeet: The 'Chuck Norris' of Programming (bbc.com)
58 points | 4 years ago with 39 comments
2019A Journey to the Disappointment Islands (bbc.com)
54 points | 2 years ago with 9 comments
2013Lebanon’s forgotten space programme (bbc.com)
52 points | 8 years ago with 15 comments
2017Robot automation will 'take 800M jobs by 2030' (bbc.com)
52 points | 5 years ago with 70 comments
2015Death in the clouds: The problem of bodies on Everest (bbc.com)
51 points | 6 years ago with 61 comments
2013A Point of View: Chess and 18th Century artificial intelligence (bbc.com)
44 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 0 comments
2016Research into the reasons for trepanation (bbc.com)
44 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 9 comments
2017Why are air combat kills so rare? (bbc.com)
43 points | 2 years ago with 80 comments
2018Wombat poop: Scientists reveal mystery behind cube-shaped droppings (bbc.com)
42 points | 3 years ago with 16 comments
2013The mystery of the vanishing gun inventor (bbc.com)
42 points | 5 years ago with 11 comments
2014When murderers were hanged quickly (bbc.com)
41 points | 4 years ago with 231 comments
2010Operation Mincemeat: How a dead tramp fooled Hitler (bbc.com)
40 points | 7 years ago with 12 comments
2015The man who invented relaxation (bbc.com)
39 points | 2 years ago with 4 comments
2018'I'm sad that I didn't have sex until I was 37' (bbc.com)
34 points | 1 year ago with 30 comments
2013How the tin can nearly wasn't (bbc.com)
26 points | 2 years ago with 1 comments
2016If cryonics suddenly worked (bbc.com)
15 points | 11 months ago with 26 comments
2017The invention of ‘heterosexuality’ (bbc.com)
13 points | 7 months ago with 2 comments
2015Why do we pick our nose? (bbc.com)
12 points | 9 months ago with 7 comments

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