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DIYers, Rejoice: The Cricut Explore Air 2 Is on Sale for 32 Percent Off

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DIYers, Rejoice: The Cricut Explore Air 2 Is on Sale for 32 Percent Off

Why Do Police Officers Wear Blue?

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Why Do Police Officers Wear Blue?

Watch the World's Tallest Sandcastle Being Built in Denmark

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Watch the World's Tallest Sandcastle Being Built in Denmark

Keep Track of All the U.S. Landmarks You’ve Seen With This Scratch-Off Map

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Keep Track of All the U.S. Landmarks You’ve Seen With This Scratch-Off Map

"Reminiscent": How One Designer Used Scented Textiles to Capture the Fragrances of Home

Pallavi Padukone with her citronella-scented textile.

Why Did So Many Movie Theaters Have Funky Carpets in the 1990s?

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What Does the Juneteenth Flag Symbolize?

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7 Pieces of Animal-Inspired Jewelry From the American Museum of Natural History's Halls of Gems and Minerals

Animal-inspired jewelry at the American Museum of Natural History.

Target Has Teamed Up With Hilton Carter on a New Houseplant Collection

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Accidentally Wes Anderson Is a Travel Book That Brings the Director's Pastel-Colored World to Life

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The Reason Popeyes Restaurants Have a Balcony Over the Drive-Thru

The balcony is an iconic part of Popeyes’s architecture.

Don’t Love Calibri? Here’s How to Change the Default Font in Microsoft Word

The face of a person who's just set their default font to Garamond.

Does Bone China Contain Any Actual Bone? The Answer Might Unnerve You

Tea bone.

Why Many Houses in Texas Don't Have Basements

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Why the Fire Pole Is Beginning to Disappear

Scenes from a firehouse in 1950.

The Reason Retail Stores Have Such High Ceilings

Retail stores want to give you plenty of overhead space. There's a scientific reason why.