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| 2016 | | Leaded gas was a known poison the day it was invented (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 611 points | 3 years ago with 399 comments |
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| 2013 | | Long before trees overtook the land, Earth was covered by prototaxites (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 584 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 240 comments |
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| 2012 | | Teller Reveals His Secrets (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 487 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 3 comments |
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| 2016 | | Giraffes Added to the Endangered Species List (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 465 points | 6 years ago with 191 comments |
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| 2013 | | For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off from All Human Contact (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 417 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 134 comments |
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| 2013 | | A Russian Family Was Isolated for 40 Years, Unaware of WWII (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 279 points | 8 years ago with 83 comments |
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| 2014 | | A whale who tried to mimic human speech (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 278 points | 3 years ago with 133 comments |
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| 2019 | | Venus could have been habitable for billions of years (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 243 points | 3 years ago with 229 comments |
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| 2014 | | Forests around Chernobyl aren’t decaying properly (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 239 points | 1 year ago with 158 comments |
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| 2013 | | The Money Behind The Climate Denial Movement (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 234 points | 5 years ago with 252 comments |
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| 2015 | | Kudzu, the vine that never ate the south (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 218 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 47 comments |
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| 2017 | | Lost languages discovered in the oldest continuously run libraries (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 201 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 79 comments |
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| 2018 | | Laika, the space dog, and her one-way trip into orbit (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 200 points | 2 years ago with 174 comments |
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| 2017 | | The Koh-i-Noor diamond, and why the British won’t give it back (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 191 points | 2 years ago with 297 comments |
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| 2013 | | Bean leaves don’t let the bedbugs bite by using tiny, impaling spikes (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 184 points | 1 year ago with 202 comments |
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| 2017 | | How the 1918 Flu Spread Across America (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 184 points | 4 years ago with 147 comments |
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| 2013 | | The Science Behind Honey’s Eternal Shelf Life (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 178 points | 8 years ago with 87 comments |
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| 2019 | | Wealth as a predictor of whether an person pursues a creative profession (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 173 points | 2 years ago with 172 comments |
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| 2013 | | There Are Whales Alive Today Who Were Born Before Moby Dick Was Written (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 163 points | 6 years ago with 99 comments |
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| 2013 | | The tomato was feared in Europe for more than 200 years (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 162 points | 3 years ago with 182 comments |
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| 2013 | | WWII Propaganda Popularized Myth That Carrots Help You See in the Dark (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 151 points | 7 years ago with 43 comments |
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| 2013 | | In 1991, Congress authorized $650M to make driverless cars a reality (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 150 points | 5 years ago with 71 comments |
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| 2016 | | How You Wound Up Playing ‘The Oregon Trail’ in Computer Class (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 147 points | 3 years ago with 97 comments |
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| 2008 | | Airliner Repair, 24/7 Boeing’s traveling fix-it team (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 146 points | 1 year ago with 96 comments |
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| 2013 | | Documenting Aramaic before its native speakers vanish (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 130 points | 2 years ago with 93 comments |
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| 2019 | | A sorceress’ kit was discovered in the ashes of Pompeii (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 128 points | 3 years ago with 83 comments |
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| 2018 | | The Mind-Bending Math Behind Spot It (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 128 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 21 comments |
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| 2013 | | WWII Propaganda Popularized Myth That Carrots Help You See in the Dark (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 124 points | 5 years ago with 84 comments |
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| 2017 | | How does human echolocation work? (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 122 points | 1 year ago with 53 comments |
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| 2012 | | Musicians wage war against evil robots (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 120 points | 1 year ago with 167 comments |
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| 2015 | | Urine, Not Chlorine, Causes Red Eyes in Pools (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 118 points | 6 years ago with 93 comments |
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| 2012 | | Teller Reveals His Secrets (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 117 points | 2 years ago with 68 comments |
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| 2013 | | A Fossilized Blood-Engorged Mosquito Is Found for the First Time Ever (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 112 points | 2 years ago with 65 comments |
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| 2016 | | The Cassowary: World’s most dangerous bird (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 111 points | 5 years ago with 45 comments |
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| 2005 | | Native Intelligence (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 110 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 2 comments |
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| 2014 | | The Voyage of the Kon-Tiki Misled the World About Navigating the Pacific (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 109 points | 5 years ago with 75 comments |
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| 2016 | | Eight Secret Societies (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 108 points | 2 years ago with 109 comments |
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| 2018 | | A $10B Experimental City Nearly Got Built in Rural Minnesota (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 108 points | 4 years ago with 133 comments |
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| 2018 | | Bats in Portuguese Libraries (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 107 points | 4 years ago with 26 comments |
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| 2018 | | Why walking on Legos hurts more than walking on fire or ice (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 101 points | 2 years ago with 99 comments |
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| 2013 | | An insect that has the only mechanical gears ever found in nature (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 100 points | 1 year ago with 21 comments |
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| 2008 | | Gobekli Tepe: The World’s First Temple? (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 99 points | 7 years ago with 43 comments |
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| 2018 | | A variety of corn has evolved a way to make its own nitrogen (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 98 points | 4 years ago with 86 comments |
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| 2017 | | 1600s England Through the Eyes of One of the First Modern Travel Writers (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 95 points | 5 years ago with 16 comments |
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| 2013 | | A Neuroscientist Who Discovered He Was a Psychopath (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 94 points | 5 years ago with 31 comments |
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| 2017 | | Is China Ground Zero for a Future Pandemic? (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 94 points | 4 years ago with 68 comments |
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| 2018 | | Hitler’s Teeth Confirm He Died in 1945 (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 89 points | 2 years ago with 91 comments |
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| 2019 | | Susan Kare designed user-friendly icons for the first Macintosh (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 89 points | 2 years ago with 19 comments |
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| 2013 | | Where Did the Fear of Poisoned Halloween Candy Come From? (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 87 points | 7 years ago with 63 comments |
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| 2011 | | What the Luddites Really Fought Against (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 82 points | 6 years ago with 50 comments |
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