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Today the lost and found department of the United States Postal Service is called the Mail Recovery Center, which isn’t a very evocative name. But it used to be called the Dead Letter Office, and at the turn of the last century, a widow named Patti Lyle C

But they're not revealing its location until the Polish government agrees to hand over a finder's fee.

Millionaire Forrest Fenn hid a treasure chest in the Rocky Mountains five years ago. It's still out there, despite thousands of attempts to recover it.

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Somebody had to do them, and we're just glad it wasn't us.

What might be some people's worst nightmare is a beloved, local tradition in the village of Khau Vai.

Including why people decided the middle finger was offensive.

Sometimes the end of the world isn't the end of the world.

Most of the terms came and went in the way that slang does, but a few were so melodious and apt that they became a part of our permanent vocabulary.

The recording spent the past five decades buried in a box in a local library.

Advice people around the world give their fellow citizens about navigating the peculiarities of American culture.