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The world’s first perfume archive and Dutch car-free Sundays in the global oil c...
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Cleaning up Chernobyl and Canada’s war in the woods
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Winning the Booker Prize and discovering a lost fairytale
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Hitler’s teeth and the Leaning Tower of Pisa
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The discovery of the Terra Nova shipwreck and Echo the elephant
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A papal visit and German reunification
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The 'Cyprus Emergency’ and India’s nuclear mango deal
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Movie history: Seven Samurai and Casablanca
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Sweden and the USA's diplomatic freeze and Elvis in the UK
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Blood diamonds and the meeting between Florence Nightingale and Aga Khan III
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The Shetland Bus and toxic shock syndrome
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Italian history
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Creating Mr Men and the Austrian wine scandal
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Chile’s Penguin Revolution and the 5,000-year-old frozen mummy
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The priest behind a new airport and Agatha Christie
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The birth of the modern fitted kitchen and the creation of Cluedo
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The House of the Spirits and Tracey Emin's unmade bed
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The American Freedom Train and the invention of text messaging
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The history of toys
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Norway’s sushi contribution and Laurel and Hardy’s Christmas
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Banky's 'Dismaland' and the Paris climate agreement
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Nigerian history
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Literary hoaxes and an underground cathedral
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Juan Carlos becomes King of Spain and ending the Bosnian war
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Speed of Sound and prosecuting Nazis
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The largest dinosaur and creating Miffy
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Emerante de Pradines and Orson Welles’s The War of the Worlds
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Music producer Sonny Roberts and treating diabetes
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Nordic Noir and the Moomins
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The evacuation of Tristan da Cunha and Japan surrenders to China at the end of W...
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India's nine day tea strike and the birth of the Excel spreadsheet
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The origins of Indian cinema and the start of Scouting
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The fight against sexual harassment in Egypt and Omar Sharif enters the world st...
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Nigeria’s Festac’77 and Gander’s generosity during 9/11
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The Chindits and USAID
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Washington DC and a film noir classic
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BlackBerry phones and Spot the dog
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Indonesian history
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Nagasaki bomb and Brazil’s biggest bank heist
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Russian revolutionaries and Japan’s record breaking rollercoaster
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Saxophone diplomacy and bulletproof vests
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Nuclear diplomacy and Italo disco
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The 'trial of the juntas' and Evita’s missing body
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Dancing in the Street and Ai Weiwei
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Robert Kennedy's funeral train and the opening of the Medellin Metro
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Jaws and the Charleston church shooting
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Ronald Reagan and Lonesome George
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Discovery of the first exoplanets and the goalie who killed a seagull
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Battle of the Beanfield and the Champions League anthem
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The history of photography
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