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No. 281

Pepsi-Cola was originally called “Brad’s Drink.”

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  1. 11 Terrifying Images of Old Soviet Playgrounds

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  2. A Drive Around London in 1926

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  3. 10 Hotel Secrets from Behind the Front Desk

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  4. What 11 Pairs of Eyeballs Watching a Movie Looks Like

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Is the Government Reading Your Email?

In an excerpt from their new book, D.B. Grady and Marc Ambinder offer 13 ways to tell whether the government is sniffing around your inbox.

THE KNOWLEDGE FEED

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5 Questions: Undercover Boss

Morning Cup of Links

A Mother's Love

Late Movies

Guess The Theme 100

The Week

8 Drivers Who Blindly Followed their GPS into Disaster

Movies

Trailer Thursday: Peeples, Aftershock and Gatsby, Old Sport!

Science

New Study Shows Humans Feel Empathy for Robots

Miss Cellania

The Historical Horror of Childbirth

Missing Links

Where to get a Bluth's Frozen Banana

History

Tycho Brahe: The Astronomer With A Drunken Moose

Financial Genius

Why Pandas Are Terrible Investments

List

6 People Who Tried to Steal Famous Documents

Brain Game

Counting Crows

List

10 Badass Moms Who Deserve Their Own Holidays

Big Question

Why Do Students Dissect Frogs?

Morning Cup of Links

Buying Internet Popularity

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5 Questions: Boxers or Briefs?

Animals

7 Videos of People Rescuing Animals

Missing Links

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History

The Founder of Mother's Day Later Fought to Have It Abolished

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History

7 Jobs We’re Glad are Obsolete

Words

The Language Isaac Newton Invented

Videos

38 Common Spelling and Grammar Errors

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List

5 Other Kidnapping Victims Who Survived Their Ordeals

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How Many Vice Presidents Can You Name in 10 Minutes?

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DID YOU KNOW? Marlon Brando hated memorizing lines so much that he posted cue cards everywhere to help him get through scenes. He even asked for lines to be written on an actress's posterior. (That request was denied.)