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  • Dan Lewis
    10:58 am Thu, Dec 21, 2017
    Now I Know: Why an episode of Peppa Pig is banned in Australia

    [This story is from one of my favorite newsletters, Now I Know. It has over 100,000 subscribers. Sign up for it here. — Mark] If you're a four-year-old in the… Read the rest of the article: Now I Know: Why an episode of Peppa Pig is banned in Australia

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  • Dan Lewis
    2:00 am Fri, Feb 6, 2015
    The juice bottle that brought down an art thief

    Most famous pieces of stolen art are stolen because they're famous. But a 1949 painting by the Spanish Surrealist Salvador Dalí is famous because it was stolen.

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  • Dan Lewis
    5:23 am Thu, Nov 20, 2014
    How top colleges figured out how to turn away Jews

    Anti-semitism motivated top colleges to switch from entrance exams to more subjective—and more opaque—admissions criteria. By Dan Lewis

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  • Dan Lewis
    4:00 am Mon, Nov 17, 2014
    Why canned soup tastes like goop

    It never tastes quite as good as homemade. Dan Lewis blames the carrots.

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  • Dan Lewis
    4:40 am Mon, Oct 20, 2014
    Budget Cuts aboard Air Force One

    Dan Lewis explores the deep, dark world… of presidential barbering.

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  • Dan Lewis
    8:57 am Mon, Sep 29, 2014
    Stealing Japan's WWII surrender statement

    In 1945 the US, China, and Great Britain asked Japan to either surrender or experience "prompt and utter destruction." A group of 1,000 Japanese military members were unwilling to accept either option. By Dan Lewis

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  • Dan Lewis
    5:36 am Tue, Sep 23, 2014
    Got a 1943 copper penny? Don't spend it.

    World War II pennies were made mostly of steel. Dan Lewis on the rare and oft-faked coppers that made it out of the mint.

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  • Dan Lewis
    4:00 am Wed, Sep 3, 2014
    The mystery Vegas casino you can only visit once every two years

    Dan Lewis on a gambling institution as elusive as it is downmarket. It's all to do with licensing, naturally.

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  • Dan Lewis
    6:22 am Fri, Aug 22, 2014
    Feeling the buzz: where do phantom phone vibrations come from?

    That feeling of having your butt grabbed by a ghost isn't an isolated stigma. Everyone is getting ghost-fondled.

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  • Dan Lewis
    4:19 am Tue, Aug 19, 2014
    Where do bags go after the TSA takes them?

    They go to Alabama, writes intrepid and daring sock smuggler Dan Lewis.

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  • Dan Lewis
    6:37 am Fri, Aug 15, 2014
    Inside job: the story of Witold Pileki, leader of the Secret Polish Army

    Unknown to most of the world until the late '80s, Witold Pilecki was a leader of the Secret Polish Army. Dan Lewis on an all-round badass.

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  • Dan Lewis
    10:01 am Wed, Aug 13, 2014
    The time Disney duped Robin Williams

    "You realize now when you work for Disney why the mouse has only four fingers — because he can't pick up a check." — Robin Williams. Dan Lewis writes about how Disney went back on its word to Williams on Aladdin.

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  • Dan Lewis
    7:39 am Fri, Jun 13, 2014
    Now I Know: Eye Macs

    In 2009 a Philadelphia high school remotely spied on students through laptop webcams, wrongfully accusing one teenager of taking drugs. 50,000 photos later, the hammer finally came down on the peeping administrators. Dan Lewis reports.

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