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1. History – Tycho Brahe to be exhumed (The Copenhagen Post).
2. History – The tragedy of dying languages (BBC).
3. History – World History Looks Different When Seen Through Islamic Eyes (VOA).
4. History – The history of tipping (BillShrink).
5. History – Founders of British obstetrics ‘were callous murderers’ (Guardian UK).
6. Interesting – Why Do the Chinese Save So Much? (Columbia Business School)
7. Interesting – Chinese attitudes about antiques 40 years after the Cultural Revolution (NY Times).
8. Interesting – How the right to arms saved the non-violent civil rights protesters (The Volokh Conspiracy).
9. Science – Our world may be a giant hologram (NewScientist).
10. WTF – How to survive if you are buried alive (The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook).

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1. Interesting – When Lego lost its head – and how this toy story got its happy ending (Mail Online).
2. Interesting – How mobile phones may help to deter kidnappings (The Economist).
3. Interesting – There’s A Fly In My Urinal (NPR).
4. Interesting – The Silver Thief: The Story of a Burglar Who Was Too Good for His Own Good (Stephen J Dubner).
5. History – The unlikely origin of fish and chips (BBC).
6. History – Did Elephants doom the Norse in Greenland? (Medieval News)
7. History – The amazing story of how Esperanto came to be (The New Republic).
8. History – The transvestites of 16th century America (TYWKIWDBI).
9. WTF – Thousands of Haitian children work as slaves (CNN).
10. WTF – Vultures facing extinction because people are smoking their brains (Guardian UK).

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1. History -How the Nazis stole Christmas (Telegraph UK).
2. History – 10 executions that defined the 2000s (Executed Today).
3. History – The history of homosexuals and transgenders in the Wild West (LA Times).
4. History – The legacy of an inhuman trade (Times Online).
5. History – Top 15 Greatest Composers Of All Time (Listverse).
6. Science – Higgs in space: Orbiting telescope could beat the LHC (New Scientist).
7. Science – First Global Map of Mercury (Wired).
8. Science – Wild Dingoes Remember Human Gestures (LiveScience).
9. Interesting – In the lawless mountain realms of Asia, a Yale professor finds a case against civilization (Boston Globe).
10. WTF – Chilean Olympic weightlifter Elizabeth Poblete has given birth to a baby boy during a training session, without having known she was pregnant (BBC).

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1. WTF – The Gambler Who Blew $127 Million (WSJ).
2. WTF – Office Space Actor Sues Anonymous Wikipedia Vandal (Wired).
3. WTF – Radovan Karadzic’s New-Age Adventure (NY Times).
4. Science – Stem cells can kill HIV (Chicago Now).
5. Science – Young-earth creationist Kent Hovind’s doctoral dissertation (WikiLeaks).
6. Science – Saturn’s Hexagon May Be Solar System’s Coolest Mystery (Wired).
7. Science – New Model of the Universe Says Past Crystallizes out of the Future (Technology Review)
8. History – Naylamp’s temple discovered in Lambayeque (… en Peru).
9. History – Ancient Tablets Decoded; Shed Light on Assyrian Empire (National Geographic).
10. Wikipedia – Manshiyat naser is a slum settlement on the outskirts of the city of Cairo whose economy revolves around the collection and recycling of the city’s garbage (Wikipedia).

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1. Wikipedia – The Cave City of Vardzia (Wikipedia).
2. Science – Boom! Hok! A Monkey Language Is Deciphered (NY Times).
3. Science – Hungry Amoebas Spawn Biggest Viruses Ever (Wired).
4. Science – Ancient Volcano’s Devastating Effects Confirmed (Yahoo!).
5. Science – Has the Dark Matter Particle been discovered? (Resonaances)
6. Interesting – Pirate payoffs feed big-money lifestyle in Somalia (KENS5).
7. Interesting – Mehmet Ali Agca to be released 28 years after shooting Pope John Paul II (Times Online).
8. Interesting – Survey finds dramatic drop in Siberian tiger populations (Scientific American).
9. Interesting – Seven Psychological Principles Con Artists Exploit (Lone Gunman).
10. WTF – North Korean leader’s 007-style secret escape tunnels revealed by defector (Times Online).

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