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  • Ben & Jerry's There is an ice cream-fueled shadow economy near Ben & Jerry's headquarters in Vermont Andrew Yi
  • the moth How Tim FitzHigham became the Commodore of Sudbury Quay by rowing a bathtub across the English Channel Andrew Yi
  • movies How megaplex movie theatres shaped the movie industry — for better, and for worse Thom Dunn
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  • futility closet In 1829 a group of convicts stole a ship in Tasmania and made their way into the Pacific Futility Closet
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  • futility closet In the 1500s, four Spanish colonists were marooned in an unexplored North America Futility Closet
  • futility closet In 1939 a Great Dane joined the Royal Navy Futility Closet
  • David Lynch Hear David Lynch introducing "Eraserhead" at a screening in 1978 Thom Dunn
  • futility closet A New Hampshire POW camp in World War II was unexpectedly transformed by kindness Futility Closet
  • futility closet Two settlers disappeared from a small Eastern Pacific island in 1934 Futility Closet
  • futility closet In 1925, Aimé Tschiffely set out to ride two horses from Buenos Aires to New York City Futility Closet
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  • futility closet In 1942, English anthropologist Ursula Graham Bower organized Indian hill people against invading Japanese Futility Closet
  • futility closet In 1911, the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre Futility Closet
  • futility closet Boxer Johann Trollmann challenged the Nazis' presumption of his ethnic inferiority Futility Closet
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