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Bali's Massive Stone Sarcophagi Included Global Grave Goods ( www.atlasobscura.com )

Can Music Make Your Food Taste Better? ( www.atlasobscura.com )

The Biggest Crabs In the World May Have Eaten Amelia Earhart ( www.atlasobscura.com )

Can you imagine a crab the size of a cat scuttling around your backyard, climbing up trees, and quietly sneaking away with your shiniest pots and silverware? No? Then perhaps you’ve never had the privilege of meeting a coconut crab....

Inside Roman Emperors’ Outrageously Lavish Dinner Parties ( www.atlasobscura.com )

Wild Life: Prairie Dog Language ( www.atlasobscura.com )

Before Harry Potter’s Sorting Hat, There Was the ‘Medieval Space Bonnet’ ( www.atlasobscura.com )

TIL The first vending machine was invented in 1st century CE Egypt to dispense holy water. The next widely known vending machine was invented 1,800 years later in Victorian England. ( www.atlasobscura.com )

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Before Harry Potter’s Sorting Hat, There Was the ‘Medieval Space Bonnet’ ( www.atlasobscura.com )

Legends swirl around the University of Edinburgh’s mysterious graduation bonnet....

Eccentric Food Advertisements Were the Baseball Cards of the Victorian Era ( www.atlasobscura.com )

Why Were Medieval Europeans So Obsessed With Long, Pointy Shoes? ( www.atlasobscura.com )

The Exquisite Boxed Meals of Japan’s Train-Station Kiosks ( www.atlasobscura.com )

The Respected Oxford Professors Who Say They Time Traveled ( www.atlasobscura.com )

On a hot August afternoon in France, 1901, Miss Elizabeth Morison and Miss Frances Lamont, on holiday from England, took a trip to visit the Palace of Versailles, a former royal residence some twelve miles west of Paris. “We went by train,” they would later recall, “and walked through the rooms and galleries of the Palace...

Ancient Egyptians Celebrated the Feast of Drunkenness with Blood-Red Beer ( www.atlasobscura.com )

To halt the carnage, the sun god resorted to trickery. One version of the story recounts that Ra flooded a field of barley and allowed it to ferment, while another claims he simply poured out 7,000 jars of beer. In either case, Ra cleverly dyed the beer crimson using red ochre, a type of edible clay rich in iron oxide....