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"How many people do you think there are in that photograph?" Tom Shieber knows how to find the answers to the most obscure questions by detailed investigation.  (via Metafilter)

Some Countries Have Brought New Cases of COVID-19 Down To Nearly Zero. How Did They Do It?

For Sale: The First Printing of "The Star-Spangled Banner." 

The Black Investigator Who Went Undercover as a White Man in the Jim Crow South. (via Damn Interesting)

Ancient Roman Mosaic Floor Unearthed Beneath Italian Vineyard.

How the Influenza Pandemic Popularized Lemons. 

Artist Chet Phillips has created a series of illustrations that portray fictional creatures from pop culture as vintage scientific field studies. 

My fiancée says I'm handsome...like a Japanese woodblock print. (via Everlasting Blort)

Small Towns Won’t Know They’re Infected Until It’s Too Late. (via Digg)

A blast from the past (2011): Deep Fried on a Stick: Innovations in Fair Food.