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Creepy Attic Stories Anyone?
I've always been fascinated as to why attics always seem so damn creepy. I knoe they're generally unvisited spaces in a house, often full of old things (or even sometimes empty) but for some reason some just seem really unnerving and I can never quite work out why. I've lived in houses with...- Mr_Hermolle
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Codebreakers Find ‘Sexts,’ Arctic Dispatches in 200-Year-Old Encrypted Newspaper Ads
Between 1850 and 1855, someone published a series of unusual ads in the British newspaper The Times. They were made up of a series of seemingly random letters, apparently gobbledygook. Almost 200 years later, a group of codebreakers has finally been able to decrypt some of them and read what...- maximus otter
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Misinterpreted Headlines
Misinterperated Headlines ever read a headline so quickly that you see something else? like today, when the news of the USS Cole bombing mastermind was released, i read so quickly that it looked like "COLE PORTER CAPTURED!" instead of "COLE PLOTTER CAPTURED!" i was like "wow, he faked his...- Anonymous
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