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Remembering when unverifiable anecdotes first took over the internet
From its earliest days, the world wide web was a repository for apocryphal stories and urban myths, and we were there to document it for you
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The amazing assortment of stuff at the bottom of one Amsterdam canal
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Ancient Romans may have killed off whale species in the Mediterranean
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DNA reveals Romans helped spread TB across three continents
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Why the Sicilian Mafia owes its existence to scurvy
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The first Americans had pet dogs 1000 years earlier than thought
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Africa’s 2000-year-old trees of life are suddenly dying off
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Who was the Somerton Man? Solving Australia’s coldest case
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How a frog鈥檚 eye robbed us of a genius鈥檚 AI masterwork
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World’s most-spoken languages may have arisen in ancient Iran
About 3 billion people speak Indo-European languages like English and Hindustani, and it seems the first such tongue was spoken south of the Caucasus mountains
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Harsh: Europe’s cannabis died just as the first farmers arrived
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Gallery of terrifying gynaecological tools from past 200 years
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Ancient Swedish massacre hints at chaos after the fall of Rome
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The Nile river is at least 30 million years old
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