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TIL Lysol was the best-selling method of contraception during the Great Depression because birth control was illegal in the U.S. until 1965 for married couples and 1972 for single people. (smithsonianmag.com)

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Reagan and Gorbachev Agreed to Pause the Cold War in Case of an Alien Invasion (smithsonianmag.com)

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TIL The American football was originally round. However in the first intercollegiate game (Princeton and Rutgers in 1869) the ball kept losing air and needed to be re-inflated, stopping the game. This got very tiresome, so eventually they just left the ball lopsided. (smithsonianmag.com)

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Reagan and Gorbachev Agreed to Pause the Cold War in Case of an Alien Invasion (smithsonianmag.com)

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Five Questions You Should Have About Google's Plan to Reinvent Cities (smithsonianmag.com)

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Reagan and Gorbachev Agreed to Pause the Cold War in Case of an Alien Invasion. Reminds me of a few Stargate plot lines. (smithsonianmag.com)

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Reagan and Gorbachev Agreed to Pause the Cold War in Case of an Alien Invasion | Smart News | Smithsonian (Episode #1029 - Tom Delonge) (smithsonianmag.com)

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Wolves and Dogs Both Have a Sense of Fairness<ARTICLE> (smithsonianmag.com)

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Yes it’s true, “They” exist (smithsonianmag.com)

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$10 Microchip Converts $50k 2D Ultrasound Machine to $250k 3D Ultrasound Machine (smithsonianmag.com)

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How Robots Left the Lab & Started Helping Humans - Computers were the size of refrigerators—or larger—but robots were on their way (smithsonianmag.com)

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TIL that the Mouse Utopia Experiments In the 1960s had a huge influence on the animated film The Secret of Nimh. NIMH stands for the National Institute of Mental Health, by the way. (smithsonianmag.com)

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Satellite Images Show Frightening Intensity of California Wildfires (smithsonianmag.com)

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Satellite Images Show Frightening Intensity of California Wildfires (smithsonianmag.com)

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Baby’s Cells Can Manipulate Mom’s Body for Decades - Sept 2015 (smithsonianmag.com)

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TIL that we are each made of 37.2 trillion cells, and it took a team of scientists to count them all. (smithsonianmag.com)

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The Ten Best History Books of 2017 (smithsonianmag.com)

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TIL that Charles Lindbergh, the first person to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic, also co-invented the perfusion pump which lead to saving countless lives in surgery. (smithsonianmag.com)

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TIL about the 'Know Nothing' Party, a nativist movement in the mid-1800 formed to oppose Irish and German immigration into the United States. The party used "a working-class identity...in conjunction with the rhetoric of upper-class political leaders." (smithsonianmag.com)

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The Nazis Fought the Original War on ChristmasScience site article (smithsonianmag.com)

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The Ten Best Science Books of 2017 (smithsonianmag.com)

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New scholarship reveals details about the Native American at the center of the classic Island of the Blue Dolphins (smithsonianmag.com)

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Mammoth Remains Unearthed at Michigan Farm, Hint at Ancient Human ButcheringPaleontology (smithsonianmag.com)

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TIL that in 1866, Congress was so hostile to Andrew Johnson that it reduced the size of the Supreme Court from 10 to 7 to prevent him from filling vacancies (smithsonianmag.com)

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Rare Amur Leopard Call Gets Caught on Tape - New footage of the cat making its distinctive roar offers a glimpse into the endangered species’ behavior (smithsonianmag.com)

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