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From Planters to Wall Art: 7 Cool Uses for Wooden Whiskey Barrels

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Whether you buy them at a garden retailer or find them at a thrift shop, old whiskey barrels are useful in so many ways.

Maillardet's Automaton Is a Marvel of 19th-century Robotics

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Maillardet's Automaton, built around 1800, can write poems and draw pictures and was a precursor to today's sophisticated robots.

How Do Eels Reproduce?

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It's a slippery proposition, to be sure, but bees do it, birds do it and you can bet that eels do it too. The question is, how?

Crystal Flutes and Human Hair: 8 Random Items Found in the Library of Congress

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When singer Lizzo played a glass flute owned by President James Madison, we stopped to wonder what else might be hiding in the Library of Congress.

How Safety Coffins Eased Grave Fears of Premature Burial

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"Safety coffins" were tricked-out caskets that provided a way for prematurely buried people to escape from 6 feet under, back when this fear was sometimes a frightening reality.

What Does a Bee Tattoo Represent? Hard Work, Protection, and Growth

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The bee tattoo meaning represents hard work, loyalty, community, and resilience. Discover its deep symbolism and cultural significance.

The Mighty Banyan Tree Can 'Walk' and Live for Centuries

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These majestic trees send their roots down in pillars from branch to ground, can form a canopy over 80 feet high and can live to be 250 years old.

What Is the Arctic Circle? 9 Stone-cold Facts About the Region

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The Arctic Circle is a region marked by frigid temperatures, strange sunlight and glaciers galore. And for hundreds of thousands of people, it's also home sweet home.

Dionysus Was the Greek God With a Dual Personality

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With two sides to his personality, Dionysus represents joy, ecstasy and merriment, but also brutal and blinding rage, representing the dual effects of overindulgence.

How do astronauts function in their space suits for hours at a time?

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I would like to know how an astronaut, who is in a space suit for hours, can eat, drink and eliminate fluid- and solid-waste byproducts? What "mechanics" are built into the suit and how do they operate?

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