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Do Your Backups, People
Pixar deleted its own movie, MySpace lost 50 million songs, and a fire in St. Louis erased 18 million files nobody had copied.
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The Day America Had Two Noons
More than 300 towns once kept their own time. British stations solved the problem with a second minute hand.
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The Oldest Definition of a Troll Came From a Troll
A riddle on a Norwegian forest road, a dwarf caught by the sunrise, and a fishing term that took over the internet.
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The Automatic Transmission Took 40 Years to Get Right
Two brothers in Boston, a Canadian steam engineer, and a $57 option that changed driving forever. A timeline of the gearbox that shifts itself.
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