The famous museum keeps millions of items from public view, including a 17-foot long beard and a combat vest made for pigeons.

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Let's review why and how we've known for at least 2300 years that the Earth is round.
They've been discovered at Roman-era sites, but no one knows what they're for.
In the 1910s, the city of New York demolished the apartment building David Hess owned in order to extend a major thoroughfare. But the city didn't seize the entirety of his land—and he wasn't about to give it up lightly.
It was even a protected species until 2005.
"My first reaction is I’m relieved that I didn’t kill myself."
We all have to go sometime. Hopefully, it won't be while choking to death at a cockroach-eating contest.
Tod Browning's sideshow spectacle is considered a classic, or at least a cult favorite, today—but its original reception wasn't quite so welcoming.