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France reclaims the title for World's Longest Baguette
At an incredible 461 feet (140.53 meters), the baguette baked on Sunday, May 5 has officially exceeded the previous record held by Italy. The municipality of Suresnes now holds the Guinness World Record. (SLNYT)
Ancient Bees
The oldest known depiction of the bee in art is The man (or woman) of bicorp an (at least) 8000 year old cave painting in the Coves de l'Aranya in Bicorp, Valencia, Spain.
Would we allow police to search the sacred precincts of marital bedrooms
Yesterday’s passage of H.R. 8373-The Right to Contraception Act, in the U.S.A.’s House of Representatives brought back into focus the looming threat to Griswold v. Connecticut.
Shadows from the Walls of Death
Shadows from the Walls of Death is a macabre book of arsenic laden wallpaper samples that was produced in 1874 by a civil war surgeon and sent to 100 libraries around Michigan to raise awareness of the dangers of arsenic. Only 4 copies remain today (96 copies were destroyed by libraries out of concern for the wellbeing of customers) and the National Library of Medicine has digitized their copy in full.
Mary! Did you hear that?
Domestic Labor
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