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Philly Typewriter (atlasobscura.com)
48 points by scapecast on April 3, 2024 | past | 9 comments
The Battle to Invent the Automatic Rice Cooker (atlasobscura.com)
23 points by scoot on April 2, 2024 | past | 2 comments
Dungeons and Dragons All Started in This Tiny Wisconsin Town (atlasobscura.com)
13 points by samclemens on April 2, 2024 | past | 3 comments
The Ghost Army, Fake Fleets and Inflatable Enemies of World War II (2017) (atlasobscura.com)
2 points by pepys on March 25, 2024 | past | 1 comment
Space Makes Noise–and Here's the Eerie Song an Eclipse Sings (atlasobscura.com)
1 point by Brajeshwar on March 24, 2024 | past
Washington Mini Monument (atlasobscura.com)
1 point by susam on March 24, 2024 | past
Butterflies Full of Wasps Full of Microwasps Are a Science Nightmare (2021) (atlasobscura.com)
171 points by nxobject on March 23, 2024 | past | 98 comments
New York City Map Is Full of Dutch Secrets (atlasobscura.com)
2 points by Brajeshwar on March 22, 2024 | past | 1 comment
When did dogs become our best friends? (atlasobscura.com)
146 points by diodorus on March 22, 2024 | past | 226 comments
America Is Bigger: the USA Expanded the Size of Two Californias (atlasobscura.com)
1 point by Anon84 on March 20, 2024 | past
Stephen King, Shakespeare, and Many Writers Agree: Eclipses Are Doom (atlasobscura.com)
1 point by Brajeshwar on March 19, 2024 | past
Gas Trapped in Antarctic Ice Recorded the Mass Death of 56M People (atlasobscura.com)
11 points by Brajeshwar on March 18, 2024 | past | 6 comments
Cutting-Edge Tech Could Spare America's Unwanted Chickens from Culling (atlasobscura.com)
1 point by rntn on March 17, 2024 | past
Sul Ross Desk (atlasobscura.com)
131 points by benbreen on March 17, 2024 | past | 13 comments
The U.S. Just Expanded by the Size of Two Californias (atlasobscura.com)
2 points by jyunwai on March 16, 2024 | past | 2 comments
The Indian Village That Revolves Around Gulab Jamuns (atlasobscura.com)
2 points by shsachdev on March 15, 2024 | past
Two Victorian academics believed they saw Marie Antoinette at Versailles (atlasobscura.com)
2 points by Brajeshwar on March 15, 2024 | past | 1 comment
I Asked Leading Entomologists: 'What's the Smartest Bug in the World?' (2016) (atlasobscura.com)
3 points by YeGoblynQueenne on March 11, 2024 | past | 1 comment
The Mad Stone, the One-Time 'Cure' for Rabies (atlasobscura.com)
67 points by drdee on March 11, 2024 | past | 18 comments
The Mysterious Death of the Namesake of the Douglas Fir (atlasobscura.com)
2 points by goles on March 10, 2024 | past
Antarctic Explorers Wrote Cute, Funny Stories to Hide Dangerous Stunts (atlasobscura.com)
102 points by Brajeshwar on March 9, 2024 | past | 27 comments
The Most Remote Place on Earth Has Space Junk and a Sea Monster (atlasobscura.com)
1 point by interesse on March 8, 2024 | past
Why Daylight Saving Time Messes with Your Brain (atlasobscura.com)
1 point by Brajeshwar on March 8, 2024 | past
Igor Fokin Memorial Sculpture (Cambridge, MA) (atlasobscura.com)
1 point by rd on March 8, 2024 | past
New York City and London Could Have Looked Different (atlasobscura.com)
1 point by Brajeshwar on March 6, 2024 | past
Where the Little Helicopter on Mars Fits in the History of Aviation (atlasobscura.com)
2 points by cratermoon on March 5, 2024 | past
Le Grand K (2018) (atlasobscura.com)
23 points by geox on March 4, 2024 | past | 12 comments
A Rare Look Inside Britain's 'Sublime Society of Beefsteaks' (atlasobscura.com)
1 point by rntn on March 3, 2024 | past
How Copernicus took down Ptolemy's Almagest (atlasobscura.com)
43 points by Hooke on March 2, 2024 | past | 72 comments
The ghost town of a modern Vesuvius that never happened (atlasobscura.com)
2 points by Brajeshwar on March 2, 2024 | past

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