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White Death

A lone Finnish sniper repels enough invading Russians in WW2 to earn the nickname "White Death".
Written by Jason Bellows • 04 May 2014 • Read/Listen →
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Cry Havoc, and Let Slip the Spuds of War

How a pharmacist tricked the French people into adopting the potato to forestall famine.
Written by J. A. Macfarlane • 10 Apr 2014 • Read/Listen →
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Absolute Zero is 0K

Victorian scientists struggle to reach and understand the vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly cold universe at Absolute Zero.
Written by Alan Bellows • 20 Mar 2014 • Read/Listen →
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It Came from Beneath the Sea

A new island appears in the Mediterranean, and nearby countries quarrel over who should control it.
Written by Marisa Brook • 03 Mar 2014 • Read/Listen →
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The Damn Interesting Article Accelerator

We here at Damn Interesting don't manage to post new articles quite as often as we'd like. We relish researching and...
Written by Alan Bellows • 26 Feb 2014 • Read →
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The Supernatural Bunnymother of Surrey

The story of an 18th century Englishwoman and her apparent tendency to give birth to rabbits.
Written by Brendan Mackie • 09 Feb 2014 • Read/Listen →
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Three Thrown Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

An unlikely and unethical psychological experiment is undertaken at Michigan's Ypsilanti State Hospital in 1959.
Written by Alan Bellows • 22 Nov 2013 • Read/Listen →
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The City Under Ice

The story of Camp Century: A 1950s-era experimental "nuclear city" under the Greenland ice sheet that was not what it seemed.
Written by Alan Bellows • 27 Sep 2013 • Read/Listen →
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Niagara be Dammed

In 1969 the US Army Corps of Engineers shut down the American section of Niagara Falls for maintenance. Parts of the...
Written by Alan Bellows • 03 Sep 2013 • Read →
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Otokichi’s Long Trip Home

A 19th-century Japanese boat adrift in the North Pacific ends up in what is now Washington State. For one of the crewmen, that's just the beginning.
Written by Marisa Brook • 08 Aug 2013 • Read/Listen →
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