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The Secret Card Game Used To Train CIA Operatives
The CIA declassified one of its secret training tools—a card game!
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The Real Life Cheshire Cat With Glowing Teeth
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Why 98.6 Degrees Fahrenheit Means You’re Hot Stuff
Human temperatures are getting progressively cooler, but why?
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Ships often don’t know what kind of creatures lurk beneath the water until they accidentally run into them.
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The Princeton Cat Experiment: Turning a Cat Into a Phone
It actually worked.
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