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No sand on this tomato.

discovery

Gorillas Don't Need to Be Taught to Clean Their Food

Sandy apples? No problem.

Anne Ewbank
Atlas Obscura
December 5, 2017
A detail from the Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze, 1894.

features

Some Delightful Alternatives to the Post-Sneeze ā€˜Bless You’

To sneeze is human, to respond "Go away, kitten" is divine.

Dan Nosowitz
Atlas Obscura
December 5, 2017
Will 2017 Be the GƤvle Goat's Lucky Year?

gavle goat

Will 2017 Be the GƤvle Goat's Lucky Year?

Everyone's favorite arson-prone ungulate is hoping to survive the season, for once.

Cara Giaimo
Atlas Obscura
December 5, 2017
A 19th-Century Chinese Hat Stand Spent 50 Years in Disguise as a Welsh Lamp

porcelain

A 19th-Century Chinese Hat Stand Spent 50 Years in Disguise as a Welsh Lamp

Chinese-porcelain expert Ivy Chan tells the story of a fancy incognito furnishing.

Ashawnta Jackson
Atlas Obscura
December 5, 2017
An old rotary dial telephone resting on a directory, c. 1930s.

tedium

The Unexpected Logic Behind Area Codes

Why aren’t they laid out in an obvious way, like ZIP Codes are?

Ernie Smith
Atlas Obscura
December 5, 2017
See Scale Models of the Greatest Skyscrapers Never Built

frank lloyd wright

See Scale Models of the Greatest Skyscrapers Never Built

A new exhibition is full of diminutive versions of big buildings and even bigger ideas.

Jessica Leigh Hester
Atlas Obscura
December 4, 2017
The cave system beneath Montreal's Saint-Leonard is much larger than once thought.

montreal

Found: A New Ice Age Cave Network Below Montreal

Speleologists and cave enthusiasts are dying to see just how far it all goes.

Vittoria Traverso
Atlas Obscura
December 4, 2017
Not something a smaller bird wants to see.

drones

To Outsmart a Rogue Drone, Think Like a Falcon

Researchers have strapped cameras onto raptors to see how they target their prey.

Jessica Leigh Hester
Atlas Obscura
December 4, 2017
A Stanley parakeet, one of 42 plates in Edward Lear's Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae, or Parrots.

printing

Before Edward Lear Was a Limerick Genius, He Was a Teenage Parrot-Painting Prodigy

The beloved children's poet spent his own youth "at the West End / painting the best end / of some vast Parrots / as red as new carrots."

Cara Giaimo
Atlas Obscura
December 4, 2017
Seara, pronounced, "Sea-RAH," has the webbed feet of a duck, the head of a rabbit, and the body of a seal.

cryptozoology

A Curious Menagerie of Mutant Taxidermy

In a cramped apartment in East New York, the artist Takeshi Yamada lives among his strange creations.

Zoƫ Bernard
Atlas Obscura
December 4, 2017
New York's Times Square was home to a number of these adult movie theaters, many of which were closed during the AIDs epidemic.

pornography

The Little Death of the Adult Movie Theater

The final erotic cinema in Paris is closing its doors after over 40 years.

Natasha Frost
Atlas Obscura
December 4, 2017
The dessert of the future might be nutrient gel.

menu monday

A Dinner at the End of Our World

An author and a chef imagine how we'll eat if bees and fish vanish.

Anne Ewbank
Atlas Obscura
December 4, 2017
A detail of the fictional Frisland, from a 1623 map of the North Pole.

map monday

How to Put a Fake Island on the Map

Frisland never existed, but for centuries, people wanted to believe that it did.

Genevieve Carlton
Atlas Obscura
December 4, 2017
A 19th-century coconut dipper: It's pure Americana.

plumbing

Why 19th-Century Americans Drank From Coconut Shells

A different kind of coconut water craze.

Atlas Obscura
December 4, 2017
The Expedition 53 crew, clad in excellent matching shirts.

pizza

Watch Astronauts Make Pizza in Space

How do you toss the dough, though?

Paula Mejia
Atlas Obscura
December 4, 2017
Barley's good for more than malt.

discovery

A Hidden Beer Flavor Has Finally Been Revealed

Researchers brewed 150 beers to determine if barley left a distinct taste.

Anne Ewbank
Atlas Obscura
December 1, 2017
A whale shark shows off its distinct spot pattern as a scuba diver swims nearby.

data

To Identify Whale Sharks, Scientists Looked to the Stars

A groundbreaking marine database was only made possible by a telescope algorithm.

Cara Giaimo
Atlas Obscura
December 1, 2017
A heaping plate of guacamole, which may or may not be an aphrodisiac.

avocados

Guacamole Gets You More Messages on Dating Apps

And other gastronomic revelations from a singles survey.

Paula Mejia
Atlas Obscura
December 1, 2017
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