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The Secret South Carolina 'Monkey Farm' That Helped Develop the Polio Vaccine

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A little-known research facility in South Carolina housed thousands of monkeys and was key to developing the polio vaccine.

Super Genetics: Genes That Protect Against COVID-19 and More

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Countless superhero movies have been released in the past decade, playing to our fascination with people with higher than usual abilities. But what if people really could have superpowers like those portrayed in the movies, thanks to the inheritance of so-called super genes?

A Shrewdness of Apes? Collective Nouns Are a 500-Year-Old Language Fad

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Collective nouns, or names for groups, are sometimes very strange. HowStuffWorks looks at where they came from.

The Dare Stones: Forgery or Key to Lost Colony of Roanoke Mystery?

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Are the Dare stones forgeries, or do they hold clues to the fate of the Lost Colony of Roanoke? HowStuffWorks delves into the mystery.

Moscow's St. Basil's Cathedral in 7 Different Architectural Styles

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St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow is an architectural oddball, but travel company RealRussia decided to imagine what it would look like in seven more conventional architectural styles.

What's the Fascination With Number 23?

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From plane crashes and deaths to sports superstitions and hexagrams, many people believe that the number 23 possesses magical properties.

'Tree-niner-fife': The Global Language of Pilots

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Pilots on international flights use aviation English, a stripped-down, specialized version of the language, to communicate with air traffic controllers.

It's Gardening Season: 5 Tips to Keep Squirrels Out

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Squirrels aren't going anywhere. HowStuffWorks looks at how gardeners and these pesky critters can get along peacefully, in the same yard.

Is Lightning Without Thunder Safe?

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Simon and Garfunkel. Peanut butter and jelly. Thunder and lightning. Some things are just better when they roll in pairs. But while we know that '60s folk singers and classic foodstuffs can also roll solo, what about these stormy BFFs?

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