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  April 1, 2022

  Michael Townsend: The Artist Who Secretly Lived Inside a Shopping Mall for Four Years

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  March 31, 2022

  How Do You Pronounce GIF?

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  February 19, 2022

  How a Chef’s Flash of Inspiration Created the Nachos

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  February 10, 2022

  Should You Say You Are Nauseous or Nauseated? Why Grammar Nerds Get Sick to Their Stomachs When You Say the Wrong Word

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  January 21, 2022

  What Is the “At Sign” Called? The Accidental Rise of @

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  January 9, 2022

  The First Email Was a Typo and Took an Hour to Send

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  January 4, 2022

  Why Do Movies Insist that Similarities to Real People Are Purely Coincidental?

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  December 23, 2021

  White Christmas: The Unlikely Origin of Best-Selling Christmas Song

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  November 30, 2021

  Words That No Longer Mean What They Used To

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  October 29, 2021

  You Will Be Surprised At the Words Invented By Presidents

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  October 17, 2021

  The Remarkable Accidental Creation of the Chocolate Chip Cookie

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  October 2, 2021

  What is the Real Story of Humpty Dumpty?

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  September 27, 2021

  Coffee, Crypts, Bones, and Friars — the Origin of the Cappuccino

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  August 25, 2021

  The Famous Captain Who Didn’t Do What He Was Famous For

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  January 27, 2021

  The Honeymoon and Its Disturbing and Decidedly-Unromantic Origins

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